Charlton won 2-0 at Leicester last weekend
QPR beat leaders Coventry 2-1 on Saturday
Recommended bet: QPR to win
Charlton continue their battle to stay in the Championship with a home derby against QPR, whose sights are doubtless set considerably higher following last Saturday's stunning 2-1 defeat of leaders Coventry.
Friday’s Clash at The Valley will kickstart another busy weekend of action in the second tier.
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Team news
Charlton’s Harvey Knibbs is out as he recovers from tweaked knee ligaments while Myles Leaburn (shoulder) is a doubt.
Nathan Jones needs to decide whether or not to include deadline day signing, Kenya international centre-back Collins Sichenje, in his squad.
For QPR, Ilias Chair remains an absentee, as does new signing Justin Obikwu, who is yet to make his debut, and attacking midfielder Karamoko Dembele.
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The stats
Charlton have won only three of their last 16 — two of those three wins were against teams who had received first-half red cards.
QPR are without a win in their last seven away games, failing to score more than one goal in any of those matches.
Charlton average 4.2 corners per game in the Championship; only Oxford manage fewer.
The Addicks have scored exactly one goal in each of their last nine home games. They have failed to score in the first half of the last seven of those.
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Prediction
After last week's magnificent 2-1 success over Coventry, Julian Stephan's QPR have to be confident they can secure a long overdue away win at The Valley.
You have to go back to November 26 for the last time Rangers won on the road, 1-0 at Blackburn.
Despite not winning since, they have at least managed to stop the bleeding with three away draws in their last three, beginning with a 1-1 draw at Premier League West Ham in the FA Cup, a game they went on to lose 2-1 in extra time.
And now, having got themselves into the play-off conversation, they know these are the type of games they need to be winning.
Having beaten Charlton 3-1 at Loftus Road earlier in the season, and with the Addicks not having beaten a side who started the second half with 11 men since before Christmas, this looks a golden opportunity for the West Londoners to take three points.
Nathan Jones has brought in a slew of new faces in the window and was understandably thrilled with last week's 2-0 win at Leicester, which came off the back of an atrocious 4-0 loss at Millwall.
But they are not creating many chances — certainly not scoring many goals — and look well worth taking on.
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