BBC
Leicester v QPR
Coca Cola Championship
Venue: Walkers Stadium Date: Monday, 5 April 2010 Kick-off: 1500 BST
Coverage: BBC Sport website, BBC Radio 5 live, BBC local radio, Final Score & highlights on The Football League Show
TEAM NEWS
Lloyd Dyer is a doubt for Leicester after picking up a knock during their defeat against West Brom.
Wayne Brown, Paul Gallacher and Yann Kermorgant are among those hoping for recalls to the starting line-up.
QPR will assess on-loan Arsenal striker Jay Simpson, who has been nursing a hamstring problem.
Lee Cook is vying for a starting place and Serbian left-back Dusko Tosic, recently signed from Portsmouth, could be handed his R's debut.
MATCH PREVIEW
Blackpool boss Ian Holloway, who spent 10 years at QPR as a player and manager, will no doubt be keeping an ear out for the score in this match between two of his former clubs.
Leicester, who occupy the last play-off spot, have suffered four consecutive losses and will drop out of the top six if they fail to beat Rangers and Blackpool win at home to Doncaster.
A QPR victory at the Walkers Stadium would mean that just a draw would be enough to take seventh-placed Blackpool above the Foxes, who were relegated under Holloway the season before last.
Relegation is still not out of the question for the R's, who are on 48 points and have drawn their last four matches. They are making heavy weather of securing their Championship status.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
• This is the 50th league meeting of these clubs. QPR have won 21 of the previous matches and Leicester 18, with 10 drawn.
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• Rangers have picked up seven points from their last three visits to the Walkers Stadium, where they have only lost once (1-0 in January 2005).
• Leicester's win at QPR in October means they could complete the club's first league double over them for 23 years.
Leicester
• Leicester are enduring their worst run for over three years. They have not lost five league games in a row since January 2006.
• Only nine players have scored league goals for Leicester this season, giving them the shortest goalscorers list in the Championship.
• A victory would complete Leicester's third league double of the campaign. They have already beaten Blackpool and Crystal Palace both home and away.
Queens Park Rangers
• A fifth successive draw for QPR would make it the longest sequence of draws by any club in the Championship this season.
• Rangers are without victory in 12 away league games, having drawn four and lost eight on the road since winning at Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 in November.
• The west London outfit have managed just four clean sheets in the league this season - fewer than any other side in the division.
• They have not kept a clean sheet in 16 away matches.
• Defender Damion Stewart is set to make his 150th league appearance for QPR.
MOST RECENT MEETING
QPR 1-2 Leicester (30 October 2009)
QPR scorer: Taarabt 33.
Leicester scorer: Fryatt 37, 64.
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