QPR striker Bobby Zamora is suspended. Zamora will serve the second of his three-match ban for being sent off against Wigan. Shaun Wright-Phillips is out after undergoing ankle surgery, while Andrew Johnson is sidelined with a knee problem.
Stoke winger Matthew Etherington remains doubtful. Etherington missed last Sunday's defeat by Manchester United after suffering a back injury in the previous week's loss to Aston Villa. Defender Marc Wilson (back/hamstring) is hopeful of returning while manager Tony Pulis is hopeful "one or two players with niggles" will be fit.
Harry Redknapp: "We're still not down. We can still reach 37 points – it could still keep us up. We have to keep going. There's the dream. It's still alive. It's not dead yet. We need four wins and a draw from the final five [matches] to have a chance. We're not giving up yet, we've still got a chance. The club has struggled to get the right balance over the course of the season. [But] if we stay up, it will be up there for sure [in my list of achievements]."
Tony Pulis: "We have got five games, five throws of the dice to get the six points we need. There are 15 points there, so that is what we have got to do and stay focused and positive. We need everybody around, it is a call to arms for everybody in Stoke-on-Trent. There might be a small portion of supporters that have done that (booed) but it is not the majority. We have been having a difficult run and minorities get a lot of publicity in this country. The majority of supporters have been brilliant. We have needed to score more goals. We have got to keep the players bright and positive."
Queens Park Rangers have won three of their last four league fixtures with Stoke, but lost their Barclays Premier League meeting earlier this season at the Britannia Stadium (0-1).
Harry Redknapp has won just four of his 20 Premier League games in charge of QPR, meaning that he has exactly the same win percentage as both Mark Hughes and Neil Warnock as QPR boss in the competition (20%).
Stoke have won fewer points than any other Premier League side in 2013 (5) and have collected just a single point in their last seven games.
Stoke have lost six successive Premier League games away from home. If they lose this match, they'll equal their worst ever run of seven away defeats (Jan 2011-Apr 2011).
QPR striker Loïc Rémy has scored in four of his last six appearances for QPR in the Premier League and in both of QPR's last two games at Loftus Road.
Stoke have scored just seven goals in their last 13 Premier League matches, with only one of these have been scored in the first half.
41% of QPR's league goals this season have been scored from outside the area (a league-high), while just 4% of Stoke's have come from range (a league-low).
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