Barclays Premier League
Venue: Loftus Road
Date: Wednesday, 21 March
TEAM NEWSAdel Taarabt is back in contention for Queens Park Rangers after missing the the defeat at Bolton because of a minor hamstring problem.
DJ Campbell has resumed training and could return in two weeks, while Heidar Helguson may also make his comeback next month.
Liverpool will assess Craig Bellamy, who has sat out the Reds' last two matches with a knock.
Glen Johnson is nursing a hamstring injury and is unlikely to play.
MATCH PREVIEWWednesday will mark exactly two months since QPR's last Premier League win, a 3-1 victory against fellow strugglers Wigan Athletic, and they head into this encounter with Liverpool in the relegation zone, above Wolves and the Latics on goal difference only. When Mark Hughes took over the talk was of the onwards and upwards variety, not of scrapping in the relegation trenches, yet that's exactly where Rangers find themselves.
“Consistency has to be the next ingredient for Liverpool”
The last half dozen games have yielded only a couple of points and more damagingly, defeats to three of the teams immediately around them in the table - Wolves, Blackburn and Bolton.
The remaining nine fixtures after this one include matches against all of the top five; Arsenal (at home), Manchester United (away), Tottenham (home), Chelsea and Manchester City (both away), plus a selection of tricky games - Sunderland and West Brom away, with Swansea and Stoke at home.
QPR have the talent to stay up and probably the goals to do it as well if Djibril Cisse and Bobby Zamora are fit and fired up. However, those three recent defeats to relegation rivals, all by the odd goal, have left them with a real problem.
Rangers have won just one of their last 16 games in the league. That has to change and quickly, or it'll be goodbye Premier League, hello again Championship.
In contrast, Liverpool head to London on the back of an excellent week in which they won the Merseyside derby with room to spare before reaching the semi-finals of the FA Cup. With the League Cup already won and another trip to Wembley on the horizon the mood is good, but their league form hasn't been so clever with only two wins since the turn of the year.
The 1-0 defeat at Sunderland was their fourth loss in five away league matches. Consistency has to be the next ingredient for Liverpool. If they play like they did against Everton then it might be a long night for QPR, but if they perform as they did at Sunderland, when I thought they were really poor, it might be a different matter.
MATCH FACTSHead-to-head Liverpool's last match away to QPR was a 2-1 victory in February 1996, when Mark Wright and Robbie Fowler scored for the Reds.
The Londoners have just one victory from nine Premier League encounters with Liverpool - a 2-1 win in October 1994, when Trevor Sinclair and Les Ferdinand got the goals.
QPR Rangers have won one of their last 16 Premier League matches (at home to Wigan on 21 January).
They have surrendered 15 points from winning positions this term - the highest figure in the top flight. They have lost 13 of those points on home turf.
The Loftus Road club have not kept a clean sheet since beating Chelsea 1-0 on 23 October, a run of 19 league games. Last term they recorded 25 shut-outs - the best figure in the Championship.
Their last nine defeats in league and cup have all been by a single goal.
Liverpool Dirk Kuyt is set to make his 200th Premier League appearance.
The Reds have conceded 26 league goals - only Manchester City (20) have a better record.
Kenny Dalglish's side are hoping to avoid a third successive league defeat away from home.
Liverpool have drawn 99 away games in the Premier League.
Source: BBC Sport. 
