QPR v Ipswich
RANGERS are likely to start with the same XI as at Preston tomorrow night – providing Matt Connolly and Wayne Routledge shake off slight knocks picked up at Deepdale.
The players were due another training session this afternoon (Monday) to finalise plans for the visit of the Tractor Boys to Loftus Road.
Tommy Smith's hamstring injury keeps him out of the side and makes it likely he will also sit out Saturday's game at Middlesbrough, while Hogan Ephraim completes a three match ban for the red card picked up at Reading a fortnight ago.
Ipswich should provide a much sterner test than the last time they visited west London – when they were hammered 7-0 by Chelsea in the FA Cup last month.
They had just parted company with Roy Keane then, but have since appointed Paul Jewell, who has more than steadied the ship.
The Tractor Boys, 13th in the Championship, are unbeaten in their last six league games – which included a 6-0 win at Doncaster when the much-coveted Connor Wickham claimed a hat-trick.
Rangers are unbeaten in eight league games themselves in 2011 and looking to repeat a 3-0 win at Portman Road in September that ended a nine game search for a win against Town.
