QPR v Northampton Town Betting Tips: 1, 2017-08-08

QPR to edge Northampton at Loftus Road

FA Cup & League Cup Tips

QPR v NORTHAMPTON TOWN

Tuesday 8th August 2017 – Kickoff: 1945hrs

Football – England – League Cup Betting Tips

The League Cup has been named as the Carabao Cup this year, and I’ve got a few more selections for Tuesday night’s first round, starting with QPR taking on Northampton Town at Loftus Road.

After a very disappointing campaign in the Championship last season, QPR made a positive start to this new season with a 2-0 home win over Reading on the opening day of the English second tier on the weekend.

Rangers started last season with an impressive 3-0 win over Leeds United at the start of last season’s campaign, but they fell away in alarming fashion and ended up very near the relegation zone. Manager Ian Holloway has a couple of decent strikers though in the shape of Mackie and Washington – the latter scored a brace against Reading on Saturday.

Visitors Northampton Town also finished in the bottom half of their division at the end of last season in League One, and were actually just four points above the relegation pack by the end. Again, The Cobblers made a good start to last season, losing just once in their first ten league matches of the season, but they too spiralled in a downward fashion thereafter.

Northampton have now gone nine matches without a win in League One which includes Saturday’s 1-0 loss away at Shrewsbury Town on the opening day of the new League One season, along with having lost four of their last five away from home.

Matty Taylor and John-Joe O’Toole are decent midfielders, but Northampton have failed to pack a punch up front as they’ve now gone three away games on the trot without scoring.

Pick: QPR to win @ 1.60 Betfair