Summary

  • QPR opened Championship season with routine win

  • Leeds defeated in Garry Monk's first game as head coach

  • Polter netted pick of goals in injury time

  1. Postpublished at 11:58 British Summer Time 7 August 2016

    QPR v Leeds (12:00 BST)

    QPR finished solidly in mid-table last season, their first since being relegated from the Premier League.

    Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, a former Leeds striker of course, is set to begin his first full season as Rangers boss.  

    Garry Monk is the seventh boss to take charge of Leeds since Massimo Cellino took ownership of the club in 2014.

    It's 12 years since the Whites dropped out of the top flight - is the ex-Swansea manager the right man to take Leeds back into the big time?

  2. Team newspublished at 11:57 British Summer Time 7 August 2016

    QPR v Leeds (12:00 BST)

    QPR give a debut to left-back Jake Bidwell, who recently joined Rangers from London rivals Brentford, as does young winger Olamide Shodipo.

    Attacking midfielder Kemar Roofe, who cost a reported £3m from Oxford during the summer, is in Leeds' starting line-up, while ex-England goalkeeper Rob Green is in goal against the club he left at the end of last season.

    QPR: Smithies; Onouha, Hall, Caulker, Bidwell; Luongo, Henry; Gladwin, Chery, Shodipo; Polter.

    Leeds: Green; Berardi, Bamba, Bartley, Taylor; Diagouraga, Vieira; Grimes, Dallas, Roofe; Wood.

  3. Welcomepublished at 11:56 British Summer Time 7 August 2016

    Ten games down, two to go on the opening weekend of the 2016-17 Championship season.

    The first of today's Championship double header sees two former Premier League clubs face each other, as QPR host Leeds at Loftus Road.

    Team news on the way shortly, ahead of a 12:00 BST kick-off.