<\/a>QPR v Sunderland 15:00 \u2013 EW<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
– QPR<\/strong> secured a vital win in their relegation fight, as they beat Southampton 2-1 last weekend. Jay Bothroyd<\/strong> was brought back from loan early by Redknapp last month, while Loic Remy<\/strong> was a January purchase, with both players scoring on Saturday to repay Redknapp\u2019s faith.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
– Bothroyd<\/strong> has needed just 122 minutes to get his first QPR goal, while Remy has averaged 161 minutes for each of his two goals.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
– Those strike rates already compare well with fellow QPR striker Jamie Mackie<\/strong> has scored twice in 1732 minutes on the pitch this season, while Dijbril Cisse<\/strong> took 1199 minutes to score three goals before leaving QPR in January.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
– Sunderland<\/strong> came back from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Fulham in their last game, thanks to goals from Craig Gardner<\/strong> and Stephane Sessegnon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
– Gardner\u2019s<\/strong> goal was his fifth of the season, having come from 45 efforts at goal with 57.8% on target.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
– Sessegnon<\/strong> has also scored five goals this season, coming from a marginally more efficient 43 efforts with a significantly more accurate on target percentage of 67.4%.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
– The game will see two of the EA SPORTS Player Performance Index\u2019s best players with the ball at their feet. Sessegnon<\/strong> is ranked third for dribbles completed with 38, four behind today\u2019s opponent and league leader Adel Taarabt with 42.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
– Adam Johnson<\/strong> set up Sessegnon\u2019s<\/strong> goal, his 7th<\/sup> assist of the season coming from 76 crosses, the 6th<\/sup> most frequent crosser of the ball in the Barclays Premier League.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
– Gardner\u2019s<\/strong> goal came from a penalty won by January signing Danny Graham<\/strong>. Graham<\/strong> is yet to score his first goal for Sunderland, despite playing 233 minutes for the Black Cats. In that time Graham<\/strong> has hit four shots on target and one off target. Graham\u2019s<\/strong> shots per goal ratio this season at Swansea was 9 shots per goal, but an on target percentage improved from 62.9% to 80% suggests it won\u2019t be long before he\u2019s firing for the Black Cats.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
– Carlos Cuellar<\/strong> has now got the best tackles won percentage in the EA SPORTS Player Performance Index, with 86.8% of his 53 tackles won, over taking Everton\u2019s Phil Jagielka who\u2019s tackles won percentage is 85.2%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QPR v Sunderland 15:00 \u2013 EW – QPR secured a vital win in their relegation fight, as they beat Southampton 2-1 last weekend. Jay Bothroyd was brought back from loan early by Redknapp last month, while Loic Remy was a January purchase, with both players scoring on Saturday to repay Redknapp\u2019s faith. – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[565,572],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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