• QPR lost 2-1 at home to Norwich on New Year's Day

• Sheffield Wednesday were thumped 3-0 at Preston

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QPR will be hoping to reignite their play-off push by seeing off a doomed Sheffield Wednesday at Loftus Road.

The R's have lost their last two games in a three-match winless run to slip to 12th in the Championship, five points outside the play-off places, although the Owls have won one game all season and are 32 points from safety.

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Team news

Ilias Chair is still missing for QPR with a hamstring problem that has kept him out since the 3-1 home win over West Brom on December 6.

The Owls are missing a stack of star names, among them Max Lowe, Nathan Chalobah, Ike Ugbo, Charlie McNeill plus back-up frontman George Brown. Yan Valery is with Tunisia at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Teenager Cole McGhee is set to get recalled at left centre-back after Liam Cooper sustained a groin injury in the 3-0 loss at Preston on New Year's Day.

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The stats

QPR have lost two and drawn one of their last three games but Sheffield Wednesday are without a win in 18.

Both teams have scored in each of the Hoops' last eight matches.

Wednesday have scored just eight second-half goals in the league this season, the joint-lowest total alongside Oxford. The Owls have lost the second half in 14 of their 24 fixtures.

QPR concede only three corners per home game on average with their matches at Loftus Road producing a Championship-low 8.8 corners a time.

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Prediction

Julian Stephan says he is struggling to put his finger on why QPR have hit a flat spot, but a visit from Sheffield Wednesday ought to put the spring back in the step of the R's.

Rangers have failed to win their last three, following a 1-1 draw at Portsmouth with back-to-back 2-1 defeats by West Brom (away) and Norwich at home.

It was the third of those results that would have been the most painful and may make Hoops' fans and their boss wary of a visit from Wednesday, a side they failed to beat at Hillsborough in September in a game that finished 1-1.

Wednesday may be chronically tailed off courtesy of points deductions but they can still put up some resistance and even during this 18-game winless run they have managed to nick points off the likes of West Brom, Watford and Hull, as well as Rangers.

Perhaps more problematic for QPR is the state of their pitch which is not at its best, especially down the wings where most of their best attacking work is done.

That could make this a thornier challenge than QPR would have wished for but with the Owls so short of senior players and so short of quality in the final third, the hosts are still expected to come good.

Whlle Wednesday are expected to put up plenty of resistance, their inability to find the net in the second half of games should give QPR chances to ultimately come out on top.

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