QPR vs Manchester City Betting Odds, Preview & Tips – 05.11.11

Can QPR stifle powerful City attack?

Premier League Betting

QPR v Manchester City Betting Tip & Odds: It will be a big shock if anything other than a Manchester City win happens. There are many different routes we could go here, particularly in the goal scoring market where it’s tough to look past the value of Sergio Aguero at 7/2 as First Goalscorer with BetFred. Think that there should be good value in a Man City 2 Goal Winning Margin for 10/3 at Bet365.

QPR to win: 10/1 at Totesport
Draw: 17/4 at Boylesports
Manchester City to win: 4/11 at Victor Chandler

EPL Match Preview: Who will be the first team to stop the steam train that is Manchester City? The Blues look as if they are going from strength to strength, especially after picking up a good 3-0 win against Valencia in the Champions League during midweek away from home. City have one of the best defences in the Premier League and easily the most potent attack. While rivals Manchester United seem to have lost their swagger, City are going from strength to strength. They are likely to lose at some point of course, and QPR caused one of the biggest shocks of the season in beating Chelsea recently. But when you look at City strikers Sergio Aguero and Edin Dzeko, who have both scored more goals each than QPR have managed as a team this season, the bookies are expecting one way traffic coming from City. Can Roberto Mancini’s men keep at least their five point lead at the top of the table? Will QPR score another famous victory?

QPR Form: It has been a mixed bag of results for Neil Warnock’s Queen’s Park Rangers, back in England’s top flight. The newly promoted Londoners really have nothing to be ashamed of, sitting mid table after a quarter of the season having passed. It has been hard to predict QPR’s form, because they are hit and miss, and their matches are largely built on defence and hanging in there, because they haven’t got a great deal of firepower to really trouble teams. At Loftus Road this season, they have only lost the once, and that was on the opening day of the season, so they have learned quickly. Their big moment came of course when they beat nine man Chelsea. They have also picked up wins against Everton and Wolves, but those were on the road. But for their highlights, they have suffered some very bad lows, such as the 4-0 defeat against Bolton, and the 6-0 hammering dished out by Fulham. QPR are going to concede goals, and their goal scoring problems were under the spotlight when they had a two man advantage over Chelsea, and really didn’t offer anything going forward. So QPR’s wins will be ones borne of hard work as opposed to real quality. Whatever does the trick for them, as at the end of the day it will all be about survival. QPR have managed just three goals at home this season, while they have conceded twice as many as that. Rangers have totaled just 8 goals in total in the Premier League this season, so there are problems there. Because there have been so few goals, the timing of them have been sporadic, but their highest percentage has come in the first fifteen minutes of their matches. At home, Queens Park Rangers have failed to score in 40% of their matches and 80% of their home matches have ended Under 2.5 goals. After the ecstasy of overturning Chelsea, their joy was quickly undone in the following match, when they visited White Hart Lane and were totally outclassed and outworked in a 3-1 defeat. It really is tough to see QPR causing as much of a shockwave as they did against Chelsea in their last home game.

Manchester City Form: Well there clearly has not been any problems with Manchester City’s form in the Premier League. The leaders have already brutalized their neighbors Manchester United, and have racked up a pretty impressive goal tally in their opening ten matches. City are averaging over three goals per game, which is a pretty impressive rate to be going along at. Their only slip up this season in the league, was a visit to Craven Cottage where they blew a 2-0 lead against Fulham and only earned themselves a point in the end. Other than that, it has been three points after three points for the Blues. Roberto Mancini has to be commended for the way he has steadily built and taken Manchester City on from what they were last season. They were a cautious, defence minded side last season and they have built upon the defensive strengths and finally sorted out the balance of getting forward as well. Perhaps the fall out with Carlos Tevez was the best thing which could have happened to City because they are no longer reliant on one man for magic. The goals have primarily flown in from Sergio Aguero and Edin Dzeko, but there has been excellent support from Mario Balotelli, and the likes of Adam Johnson and the highly impressive David Silva, who is easily in the running for Player of the Year. City’s away form has been impressive despite that draw against Fulham. They have hit 20 goals on their travels (more than they have amassed at home) and have conceded just six. So, away from home, Manchester City are averaging an amazing 4 goals per match. Yes, you read that right. There was that famous 6-1 win, on top of a 5-1 triumph on the road and a 4-0 win as well, so City are certainly not goal shy and the QPR defence will likely be in for a very long afternoon. Roberto Mancini’s men have scored first in every Premier League match this season, and 78% of their goals have come in the second half, so they really punish teams the longer the games go on. City’s most prolific time bracket for finding the back of the net is the 46-60 minute, where nearly a third of their goals have come. A quick look as their defence, and they are conceding an average of 1.2 goals per match away from home, and every one of their away matches have ended Over 2.5 goals, a good betting stat to look out for there. It is a five match streak away from home with no defeat, and a five match streak of scoring away from home. The all round stats are just so impressive from Manchester City, whatever you are looking, and they will be firm favourites to rattle off another three points here.

Head to Head: Not a great deal of history between these two sides. At Loftus Road, there have been just 24 meetings there between the two teams. QPR have won 9 of the meetings, with City picking up 8 wins, leaving 7 draws. So all even there, and in the over all head to head stats at all venues, City have the upper hand with a 41% win percentage. You have to go back to the 2003/04 season for the last meeting between them, which was in the League Cup, and City won 3-0. The last league meeting was back in March of 2000 in League One, which City also won. Both of the last two matches then against QPR, City have rattled in three goals. An omen of something to come again here?

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