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QPR vs Aston Villa: EPL live scores, blog

27th October, 2014
Kick-off: 7:00am AEDT
Venue: Loftus Road, London
Last Meeting: Aston Villa 3-2 QPR, March 2013
Referee: Lee Mason
Head to head: Meetings 38, QPR 13, Aston Villa 16, Draw 9
Betting: QPR 2.4, Villa 3, Draw 3.25
QPR in happier times. They are plying their trade in the lower divisions after relegation.
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27th October, 2014
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Queens Park Rangers and Aston Villa will look to round off Week 9 of the English Premier League with a win when they face off at Loftus Road. Join The Roar for live scores and coverage from 7:00am (AEDT).

Eight games into the campaign and QPR are in nothing short of a mess; bottom of the table with just four points to their name, and now on-field difficulties have been accompanied by a spat between manager Harry Redknapp and Adel Taarabt – a player who could have been making waves in Premier League.

Asked of Taarabt’s absence from the side, Redknapp attacked his forward man with claims of being “unfit” for football and three stone overweight – claims the Moroccan responded to during the week. Whether the two cross paths again is yet to be known, although Taarabt’s value in the side was re-emphasised by his place in QPR’s only victory of the season against Sunderland at the end of August.

This, and the claim from Redknapp that “nobody could do the QPR job better”, came after the side’s sixth defeat of the campaign, with a 3-2 defeat at the hands of Liverpool – one of the top games of the season to date, yet little consolation to a Rangers side who have conceded the most goals in the Premier League campaign.

Monday night’s visitors Aston Villa, meanwhile, come into this clash following an erratic beginning to their top-flight form book. Three victories and a draw, including victory over Liverpool, had left Paul Lambert’s side in the upper echelons of the league table after four games of the new season.

However, a tough run of fixtures – Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City and Everton – has seen the Villains not pick up another point, or even a goal, since.

QPR’s absence from last season’s Premier League means the last meeting between the two sides came in March 2013, with Aston Villa coming from behind to win an exciting clash at Villa Park by three goals to two.

Points were shared in the other meeting that season, with a 1-1 draw at Loftus Road as Rangers will still searching for their first win of the season once December had come around.

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With both sides in truly wretched form, it’s a tough call as to where the points will go in this one.

Prediction: QPR 1-2 Aston Villa

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