BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Venue: Upton Park Date: Sunday, 5 October
TEAM NEWS
West Ham defender Guy Demel is a doubt after suffering an unspecified injury in training this week.
Winger Matt Jarvis is hoping to feature for the first time this season after recovering from a thigh injury.
QPR midfielder Sandro has been cleared to play after suffering a heavy blow to the head in last weekend's 2-1 league defeat at Southampton.
Joey Barton and Jordon Mutch have been nursing hamstring problems and will face a fitness test.
MATCH PREVIEW
The last time I saw Sam Allardyce was a fortnight ago when he walked into the press room grinning like a Cheshire cat. You couldn't blame him: 3-1 wins over Liverpool don't come around terribly often for most managers and this was a deserved success.
Liverpool were poor on the day, but I also thought West Ham had a nice balance and vibrancy about them with the new signings settling in well.
Aaron Cresswell was assured at the back, Alex Song gave added rigidity to midfield, while Enner Valencia and Diafra Sakho were lively further forward. Stewart Downing playing through the middle wasn't something I'd seen before either, and he excelled in the role.
After last week's narrow defeat at Old Trafford, it will be interesting to see if they can build on that last home performance this weekend because their other two home games this season have both ended in defeat, and by all accounts, the Southampton performance was one to forget.
QPR travel across the capital for this one as the only Premier League team without a point away from home so far this season. It's early days of course, but three games on the road have all ended in defeat and Charlie Austin's strike at Southampton last week is the only goal they've managed away in that time.
History is against them - it has been 21 years since Rangers last won at West Ham with a 4-0 success back in 1993. Current manager Harry Redknapp was the assistant to Billy Bonds at Upton Park at the time.
No matter how long he's in the game, West Ham will always be the club most closely associated with Harry, due to the amount of time he spent there as a player, assistant and manager.
He's not the only one at QPR with previous ties to the club, though - Rio Ferdinand, Rob Green and Bobby Zamora are all former West Ham players who will be in the visitors' dressing room on Sunday.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
- West Ham are unbeaten the last four times they have hosted QPR (W2, D2).
- QPR's last victory at Upton Park was by 4-0 in August 1993.
West Ham
- This season, the Hammers have picked up more points away from home (four) than they have at Upton Park, where they have won just three points from a possible nine.
- Their overall tally of seven points is two more than at the same stage of last season.
- West Ham are the only side in the Premier League not to have kept a clean sheet this season.
QPR
- QPR are the only Premier League side not to have picked up a point away from home.
- They have scored just one away goal, when Charlie Austin found the net at Southampton last weekend.
- QPR have scored just four goals in total - only Burnley (one) have scored fewer top-flight goals this season.