BBC Portsmouth PreviewPortsmouth v QPR
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Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Npower Championship
Home Team Score Away Team Time
Portsmouth v QPR 19:45
PORTSMOUTHQPRPossessionPortsmouth 50%QPR 50%Attempts on targetPortsmouth 0QPR 0Attempts off targetPortsmouth 0QPR 0CornersPortsmouth 0QPR 0FoulsPortsmouth 0QPR 0
Npower Championship
Venue: Fratton Park Date: Tuesday, 9 November Kick-off: 1945 GMT
Coverage: Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC local radio; text commentary on the BBC Sport website
TEAM NEWS
Portsmouth striker David Nugent has been sidelined by a knee problem.
Nugent suffered the injury in training ahead of Saturday's defeat at Derby and is not ready to return, so John Utaka may again play up front.
Queens Park Rangers boss Neil Warnock is without the suspended Bradley Orr and plans to recall left-back Clint Hill, who was rested against Reading.
Striker Heidar Helguson, who has been out with a shoulder problem, will be assessed ahead of the game.
MATCH PREVIEW
QPR are back on top of the Championship and, with 29 goals this season, are again its top scorers. But their manager Neil Warnock claims it is Portsmouth who have the division's best first-choice starting XI.
Pompey's defeat at Derby on Saturday ended a seven-match unbeaten run, and they have enjoyed four consecutive home victories. Another maximum would leave them with seven wins this season - as many as they managed throughout the whole of last term's ill-fated Premier League campaign.
Their climb up the table has been impressive, but they now face the Football League's only unbeaten team, who bounced back from four successive draws to beat Reading 3-1 on Saturday despite playing the second half with 10 men.
Tommy Smith, who left Portsmouth to join the R's on deadline day, made his first start for the west London club in that game and scored. He will be eager to face his former club along with midfielder Shaun Derry, who spent two-and-a-half years at Fratton Park.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
• QPR have won 12 and Portsmouth 10 of the 32 previous league meetings between these clubs.
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• They were last in the same division in 2000/01, when both games ended in a 1-1 draw.
Portsmouth
• Portsmouth are averaging 2.14 goals per home game in the Championship this season. Only Derby better that.
• Only Preston, however, have kept fewer clean sheets this term than Pompey, who have managed just two.
Queens Park Rangers
• Five more league matches without defeat would equal QPR's club record run of 20.
• Rangers have scored three goals in a third of their league fixtures this season (five of 15). In addition, they beat Barnsley 4-0 on the opening day.
• They have conceded only six Championship goals this season, and kept an unrivalled 10 clean sheets.
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