Pick of the stats: Queens Park Rangers v Portsmouth

[BBC] Portsmouth will seek an end to a five-match winless streak to keep them outside of the bottom three when they visit Queens Park Rangers on Saturday (15:00 GMT). Pompey have lost four of their past five matches, drawing one, to be left just one point above the relegation line. But hosts Rangers put an end to a four-match losing streak of their own on Saturday with a comeback win over Leicester City and will be hoping to see out their season in a better position.

QPR are winless against Portsmouth since their opponents returned to the Championship (D1 L2), with their last league win over them coming in February 2011 under Neil Warnock (2-0). Portsmouth won 2-1 in this exact fixture last season (October 2024), ending a run of 12 league trips to face QPR without a victory (D4 L8). They last did so in back-to-back league campaigns in 1922-23 and 1923-24.

QPR have lost their last three Championship home matches; the last time they lost four consecutive home league games under the same manager was in February-April 2015 under Chris Ramsey (5), when they were in the Premier League. Portsmouth are winless in their last five league matches, suffering more defeats in these last five (D1 L4) than in their previous 13 combined (W6 D4 L3). Harvey Vale scored and assisted in QPR's 3-1 win at Leicester last time out, registering more goal involvements in that game (2) than in his previous 18 Championship outings (1 goal).

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