Wednesday’s match between Leeds United and Queens Park Rangers will take place at Elland Road with both teams looking to recover from losses over the weekend.
The visitors now find themselves in the bottom three after a four-match winless record, while the hosts plummeted to ninth place in the Championship table after losing away at Sunderland, snapping a six-match league unbeaten streak.
Leeds United head into their 10th Championship outing of the campaign on Wednesday on the back of a disappointing defeat, halting their momentum in their bid to win promotion back to the Premier League under the new management of Daniel Farke.
After enduring a slow start to life back in the second tier, the Whites did start to build momentum, kicking off an unbeaten run prior to the September international break and picking up where they left off on their return, beating Millwall 3-0 at The Den thanks to Joel Piroe‘s brace and a Georginio Rutter goal and collecting a creditable point from a goalless draw away at high-flying Yorkshire rivals Hull City.
Farke’s men would then make it six games unbeaten in style with another 3-0 triumph, beating Watford at Elland Road as Piroe eventually opened the scoring in the 67th minute and Sam Byram and Jaidon Anthony added goals, taking them onto 13 points from eight games and within touching distance of the top six heading into a tough trip to fellow relegated Southampton on Saturday.
Their hosts headed into the contest on the back of four straight league defeats but quickly went ahead through Adam Armstrong inside two minutes, and things got worse for the Whites as they went into the interval 3-0 down as Armstrong again scored alongside Will Smallbone, with Pascal Struijk‘s 58th-minute goal not enough to trigger a comeback at St Mary’s as Leeds left empty-handed.
Now with a quick turnaround, they will be keen to take the chance to quickly get back on track at Elland Road and make a return to winning ways with the aim of kickstarting another positive run of results on Wednesday.
They meet a Queens Park Rangers side who are aiming to bounce back from a 3-1 defeat of their own last time out in what has been a difficult start to the Championship campaign.
After eventually finishing just six points above the relegation zone last season, Queens Park Rangers again set out to maintain their second-tier status under the management of Gareth Ainsworth, and they headed into the international break with six points on the board from five games, courtesy of important away victories over Cardiff City and Middlesbrough
The London team has only managed two more points since returning from the break and has been unable to add to its win total in four attempts. First, they lost 3-1 at home to Sunderland before stealing a point from Swansea City in stoppage time when Lyndon Dykes tied the game at 1-1 at Loftus Road in the 92nd minute.
