QPR v Blackburn 19OCT21 1 - 0 FT 21pts/5th

McCallum was the key against Fulham because once he went off we lost all our shape and balance. In addition if you you remove Barbet from our central defence we lose any pace that we have to defend the through ball. Watching Dickie and de Wijs trying to turn is like watching an oil tanker at sea as they are so slow.

Last season Mowbray told us that he targeted Dickie precisely because he saw him as having a lack of mobility. Logic says he will do the same in this game and if Blackburn's scouts watched us against Fulham they won't have seen anything to deter that thought.

We have to hope that we are not forced to play with round pegs in square holes in this game and that we can give the defence the cover it didn't get on Saturday.

This is the team I think Warburton will start with,

Dieng
Dickie, de Wijs, Barbet
Odubajo, Ball, Chair, Dozzell, Mccallum
Willock, Dykes

Hopefully we can just respond in the right way tonight. A win would be perfect!

We end up with 4 changes

Albert Adomah makes his first QPR league start in over 6 months. He last started in the league away at Middlesbrough on 17 April. He replaces Odubajo who isn't in the squad.

Dunne (on his birthday) replaces De Wijs
Dozzell in for Johansen
Dykes takes the lone striker role with Austin dropping to the bench


Dieng
Dickie Dunne Barbet
Adomah Ball Dozzell McCallum
Chair Willock
Dykes

Glad to see McCallum fit enough to start again. Hopefully Adomah can service Dykes and also keep it tight going backwards! You sense with it being his first start this is a massive chance for Adomah; make or break somewhat. I do worry about him defensively, but surely he can't fare any worse than Odubajo has lately. Can he?

No Adomah cannot be any worse than Odubajo sadly.... I think it is a good side, given past performances and Johansen's suspension.

Sloppy opening 10 minutes with the ball being given away too often.

No urgency in our play so far. Chair is being man marked literally being followed step for step.

Final ball lacking so far.

Feels like a game where we have a lot of the ball and suddenly Blackburn score with their first real effort.