Queens Park Rangers 0-3 Middlesbrough: result and report

Championship · Saturday 20 January 2018

Result

Queens Park Rangers 0-3 Middlesbrough

Championship · Saturday 20 January 2018, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

Queens Park Rangers · Middlesbrough · Championship predictions

Queens Park Rangers 0-3 Middlesbrough: match report

Queens Park Rangers were beaten by Middlesbrough 0-3 in the Championship on Saturday 20 January 2018. It was 0-2 at half-time.

Daniel Ayala opened the scoring in the 24th minute. Queens Park Rangers did not score. Middlesbrough scored through Daniel Ayala (24'), George Friend (34') and Adama Traoré (85').

Neither side received a card.

Going into the game Queens Park Rangers were 14th on 33 points from 27 and Middlesbrough 9th on 41 points from 27. Queens Park Rangers went on to finish that season 16th with 56 points, and Middlesbrough 6th with 77.

Queens Park Rangers lined up in a 3-5-2 and Middlesbrough in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Adama Traoré of Middlesbrough (8.6), ahead of Ryan Shotton (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Queens Park Rangers wins, 0 draws and 5 for Middlesbrough.

Going into the match Queens Park Rangers's last five read W-W-L-D-D and Middlesbrough's L-W-L-W-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 24'Goal · Daniel AyalaMiddlesbrough · 0-1
  • 34'Goal · George FriendMiddlesbrough · 0-2
  • 85'Goal · Adama TraoréMiddlesbrough · 0-3

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Queens Park Rangers 4, draws 0, Middlesbrough 5.

Team news

Queens Park Rangers line-up (3-5-2)

Alex Smithies, Nedum Onuoha, Joel Lynch, Jack Robinson, Darnell Furlong, Jake Bidwell, Luke Freeman, Josh Scowen, Massimo Luongo, Conor Washington, Aramide Oteh

Middlesbrough line-up (4-2-3-1)

Darren Randolph, George Friend, Yuki Takahashi, Ryan Shotton, Ben Gibson, Grant Leadbitter, Patrick Bamford, Jonathan Howson, Stewart Downing, Adama Traoré, Britt Assombalonga