QPR host The Hatters on the final day of the Championship season

Luton Town travel to the Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium to face Queens Park Rangers on the final day of the campaign, as both clubs looking ahead to next season.

Rangers have had their best season since getting relegated from the Premier League, and were looking for a response following their lacklustre performance against would be champions Norwich.

It’s safe to say that’s what Manager Mark Warburton got, goals from Charlie Austin and Osman Kakay ensured that the club claimed all three points. Their win at the Bet365 was their eighth win on the road this campaign, beating their 2019/20 tally of seven.

While the West-London club find themselves firmly rooted in the middle of the table, Warburton will be keen to end the season on a high continue their momentum entering the next campaign. Victory for the R’s could see them finish as high as eight.

As for Luton Town, they too have had an impressive season following their great escape in 2019/20. The Hatters have a gap of four points to Preston North End in 13th, ensuring that the club has a top-half finish.

This was confirmed last time out, as Luton played a Rotherham United side who are battling for their lives in the bid to stay in the division. The game was a stalemate with few chances created at either end of the pitch.

Nathan Jones will be keen to go one step further, and claim all three points this weekend, which would give the team potentially a top 10 finish. Since returning to the club, Jones has been a revolution after his Stoke City nightmare, with the right recruitment they could be a force to reckon with next year.

Last Meeting 

The two sides met at the turn of the year, it was a period where Rangers were starting to pick up some form, which continued until the end of the season. Warburton’s men won the game 2-0, as Charlie Austin scored on his return to the club.

It was all QPR throughout the game, they pressed high with an intensity not associated with the side throughout the first half of the season. Austin put Rangers 1-0 up when he was unmarked from a corner kick and nodded the ball home.

Macauley Bonne sealed and sent all three points packing back to London when he doubled his sides lead in added time, after great work from Albert Adomah, the winger laid an unmarked Bonne who just tapped his effort past a hopeless Simon Sluga.

Team News

Warburton’s side will be without Luke Amos as he continues to recover from knee surgery. Geoff Cameron, Conor Masterson and Charlie Owens remain doubts ahead of the fixture, despite returning to first-team training.

After returning to the match-day squad last week Tom Carroll could feature for the R’s this weekend, the English midfielder has been gaining match fitness ahead of his first-team return after undergoing knee surgery.

Nathan Jones will be without centre-back Tom Lockyer as he is still recovering from ankle surgery. Other than that, the full squad will be available for selection entering Saturday.

Both sides could be keen to get a look at some of their younger prospects as they have little play for at the sharp end of the season. Rangers could finish as high as eight, while Luton could finish within the top 10.

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