Middlesbrough welcome QPR to their stadium in great spirits. In the last round, they defeated the favored Sheffield United 3-1 away from home. In this way, they sent a message to the entire league that they did not give up on direct placement in the Premier League, from which they are currently separated by 7 points. There are still a lot of games until the end of the season, the Championship is quite an unpredictable league and there is really no reason why the club led by Michael Carrick should not think in that direction. It is Carrick who is one of the most deserving factors of this situation in the table of the famous English club. Since his arrival at the club, 16 games have been played and they managed to win a very big 37 points. For the sake of comparison, only Burnley managed to win by 3 more points than them in the same period. From a team that was in the middle of the table and was sinking lower and lower, he managed to create a team that keeps safe steps in the playoffs and even threatens the second position of Sheffield. Lately, it doesn't matter if they play at their stadium or away, because they record equally good results wherever they play. In the last 9 games in the league, they have as many as 8 wins and only one loss. Really impressive considering the quality of teams in this league. However, they are somewhat more dominant on their home field. The last 5 matches in the league were successfully decided in their favor with a great goal difference of 12 goals scored and only 2 goals conceded. In my opinion, they are big favorites in this match as well, because they are visiting a team that has been in huge problems lately.

In the last few months, QPR have not looked like the team they have been since the beginning of the league. After about 10 rounds they played great, they had a very good position in the table with a good point difference compared to the other teams, but then for some reason there was a big turn in the negative direction. They are currently in the 17th position in the table with only 9 points more than the danger zone. They haven't won in the league since the middle of December last year, and since then they have played 9 games. At the moment, they are the team with the worst form in the championship with only 2 points won from the last 5 games. How badly they are playing is perhaps best told by the statistic I used to describe Carrick's performance at Middlesbrough. In the same period, 16 games played, QPR managed to win only 9 points and therefore the position they are currently in should not be surprising. The atmosphere in the team is not at an enviable level and the coach is under enormous pressure. If something doesn't change drastically, QPR could very soon find a new coach. The match against one of the best teams in the league at this moment certainly does not come at the right time for them and the question is how much strength the guests will have to resist the great host in this match. Middlesbrough is the team in whose matches we have been able to see more than 2.5 goals per match the most times so far, and taking into account the form of QPR, I think it is quite realistic that even today we will see at least 3 goals with the victory of the home team.

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米德尔斯堡热情地欢迎QPR来到他们的球场。上一轮，他们在客场3-1击败了备受看好的谢菲尔德联队。通过这种方式，他们向整个联赛传递了一个信息，即他们没有放弃在英超联赛中直接排名，目前他们与英超联赛相差7分。赛季结束前还有很多比赛，英冠联赛是一个不可预测的联赛，卡里克领导的俱乐部没有理由不往这个方向想。卡里克是这支著名的英格兰俱乐部积分榜上最值得考虑的因素之一。自从他来到俱乐部以来，他们已经打了16场比赛，并设法赢得了非常大的37分。为了便于比较，只有伯恩利在同一时期比他们多赢了3分。从一支处于积分榜中游且越来越低的球队，他成功地创建了一支在季后赛中保持安全步伐的球队，甚至威胁到谢菲尔德的第二名。最近，无论他们在主场还是客场比赛，他们都取得了同样好的成绩。在最近的9场比赛中，他们取得了8胜1负的战绩。考虑到联盟中球队的质量，这真是令人印象深刻。然而，他们在自己的主场更占优势。在联赛的最后5场比赛中，他们取得了12球的净胜球，只丢了2球。在我看来，他们在这场比赛中也是大热门，因为他们要去拜访的球队最近遇到了很大的问题。

在过去的几个月里，QPR队看起来不像联赛开始以来的球队。在大约10轮之后，他们打得很好，他们在积分榜上的位置非常好，与其他球队相比有很大的积分差距，但由于某种原因，他们在负方向上有了很大的转变。他们目前在积分榜上排名第17位，仅比危险区域高出9分。自去年12月中旬以来，他们还没有在联赛中获胜，从那以后他们打了9场比赛。目前，他们是联赛中状态最差的球队，过去5场比赛只拿到2分。他们踢得有多糟糕，我用卡里克在米德尔斯堡的表现来描述也许是最好的。在同一时期，QPR打了16场比赛，只赢得了9分，因此他们目前的位置不应该感到惊讶。球队的气氛并不令人羡慕，教练承受着巨大的压力。如果事情没有发生翻天覆地的变化，QPR可能很快就会找到一位新教练。现在对阵联赛中最好的球队之一的比赛对他们来说当然不是时候，问题是在这场比赛中，客人们有多大的实力来抵抗伟大的东道主。到目前为止，米德尔斯堡是我们每场比赛进球超过2.5个的次数最多的球队，考虑到QPR的形式，我认为即使在今天，我们也会看到主队获胜后至少3个进球是相当现实的。