Barnsley vs QPR Predictions

• Barnsley have lost their last six Championship matches.
• Barnsley have lost seven of their last ten home league games, eight of which have featured fewer than four goals.
• Queens Park Rangers have won their last four away league fixtures, al of which featured fewer than four goals.

QPR to justify odds-on price against troubled Tykes

Queens Park Rangers can justify their odds-on quote to record another away win against hapless Barnsley on Saturday. The R’s have won five of their last six Championship contests on the road and have recorded the same winning 2-1 scoreline in their last four.

Mark Warburton’s men couldn’t hold onto two leads at home to Middlesbrough in midweek, but the standard of side they face this weekend will be nothing like the quality and organisation they went up against in Boro.

Barnsley lost their sixth league game on the spin at Luton on Tuesday and look to be going down for all money now. The defeat left them eight points adrift of safety and without a league win since November.

Oakwell encounters usually good for an ‘unders’ bet 

The Tykes have scored one solitary goal in their last six at home so, even if QPR aren’t in the habit of keeping clean sheets on the road, a win to nil must be a realistic prospect here. But Rangers’ away clean sheet rate of 15% is ore than enough below than the division average of 24% to point us in another direction for some added value.

Just 21% of Barnsley’s home games have seen more than two goals scored, which is well below the average, so taking ‘unders’ ought to be rewarded here too. Again, the numbers stack up for fewer than four goals to be scored which is inherently a safer play too.

In addition to that, we believe a 2-0 QPR win is the best option to take in correct score betting as Barnsley cannot be relied upon to get a goal. QPR have scored exactly twice in four of their last seven league games and their last four on the road.