Championship Championship
Regular Season - 8• 19 Sept 2026

QPR 2–2 Preston

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Match Recap

Preston looked ready to shock Loftus Road as Johnny Kenny struck twice inside the opening half hour, punishing a QPR side that couldn't find an answer. But the Championship table tells its own story: QPR sit seventh on 12 points against Preston's 23rd-place slump, and that gap showed as the hosts clawed their way back. Kwame Poku halved the deficit in the 66th minute, dragging QPR level on form and belief, before Paul Smyth produced the sting in the tail, snatching a stoppage-time equalizer in the 90th to complete the comeback. It's a result that fits the pattern between these two, with QPR's only previous meeting also ending level. Kenny's brace makes him the story of the afternoon, but Smyth's nerve in front of a deflated away end is what fans will replay. Two goals in the first half hour, two more to snatch a point back, and a finish nobody in west London saw coming until the last kick. Watch how Smyth's 90th-minute leveler unfolds in the highlights below.

Match Statistics

QPR
VS
Preston
60% Ball Possession 40%
33 Total Shots 14
7 Shots on target 3
15 Shots off target 6
11 Blocked Shots 5
17 Shots inside box 12
16 Shots outside box 2
10 Corner Kicks 3
3 Offsides 0
8 Fouls 13
2 Yellow Cards 2
1 Red Cards 0
1 Goalkeeper Saves 5
491 Total passes 319
445 Accurate passes 261
13 Free Kicks 7

Lineups

QPR
Julien Stéphan 4-4-2
VS
Preston
P. Heckingbottom 5-3-2

Substitutes — QPR

20H. Vale 2K. Adamson 23I. Alemayehu 6J. Clarke-Salter 15A. Lloyd 4L. Morrison 14K. Saito 11P. Smyth 13C. Ward

Substitutes — Preston

9J. Erabi 20L. Gibbs 6L. Lindsay 23A. Moran 21L. Nicholls 24O. Offiah 11T. Small 2Pol Valentín 37D. Burgzorg