Pick of the stats: Queens Park Rangers v Derby County

Derby will seek to keep up their fight for a Championship play-off place when they visit QPR on Saturday (15:00 GMT). The Rams are eighth, two places and four points behind sixth-placed Wrexham after Tuesday night's 2-1 defeat at Norwich. It was a third straight away defeat for John Eustace's side and a sixth in seven games on the road.

QPR are adrift in mid-table, sat 13th, after a 2-1 home defeat to Swansea the same night. The Hoops are winless in four and though a top-10 place remains within their grasp with two games remaining, Julien Stephan's men could fall as low as 17th if results elsewhere go against them QPR have won both of their past two home league games against Derby County, only once before winning three in a row (from March 1981 to September 1982). After their 1-0 win in October, Derby are looking for their first league double over QPR since the 2016-17 season.

Queens Park Rangers have lost their final home league game in three of the past four seasons (W1), more than their previous 10 beforehand (W7 D1 L2). Derby have won their final away league game in both of the past two seasons, only once before doing so more times in a row in the club's history – a run of four from 1891-92 to 1894-95. Derby have lost six of their past seven away league games (W1); no side has lost more times on the road in the Championship since the start of this period (21 February).

[BBC]