Queens Park Rangers 2-1 Cardiff City · Championship
Queens Park Rangers beat Cardiff City 2-1 in the Championship. Full match statistics, the goal timeline and both lineups are below.
Match report
Queens Park Rangers and Cardiff City met in the Championship at Loftus Road Stadium in London on Wednesday, 2 September 2026.
Goalscorers
Queens Park Rangers: R. Burrell 36', 53'. Cardiff City: P. Ng 74'.
How the match went
Cardiff City saw more of the ball, 63% of it. Queens Park Rangers had 20 shots with 4 on target, Cardiff City 9 with 3 on target. There were 7 corners in total, 3 to Queens Park Rangers and 4 to Cardiff City. Queens Park Rangers conceded 10 fouls, Cardiff City 12. The referee showed 2 yellow cards (0 for Queens Park Rangers, 2 for Cardiff City).
Line-ups
Queens Park Rangers started in a 4-4-2: Pierce Charles, Amadou Salif Mbengue, Jimmy Dunne, Ronnie Edwards, Tariq Lamptey, Harvey Vale, Glen Kamara, Nicolas Madsen, Koki Saito, Alfie Lloyd, Rumarn Burrell.
Cardiff City started in a 4-2-3-1: Nathan Trott, Perry Ng, Gabriel Osho, Joel Bagan, Calum Scanlon, Alex Robertson, Cian Ashford, Ollie Tanner, Rubin Colwill, Jack Moylan, Yousef Salech.
More from this competition: Championship fixtures, results and table.