QPR are unbeaten across their past three league games against Sheffield United (W1 D2), a run directly following a sequence of five consecutive losses against the Blades between 2

That hot streak left the Rs on 38 points from 28 league outings, but they have since added just six more points to that tally in six further attempts, courtesy of home victories over Blackburn Rovers and Derby County either side of an away defeat to Coventry City.

The 49-year-old Frenchman succeeded John Eustace at the Rovers helm this week and is pitted against a side four places, and four points behind sixth-placed Blackburn in his first game on Saturday (12:30 GMT).