Queens Park Rangers v West Ham United: live 43 min Demel does well down that right flank again. He lays the ball back to Vaz Te, who crosses to Cole at the near post but the England striker directs his header off-target. Nice link-up play but Cole should hit the target from there. 42 min Cracking omen for QPR fans, this: 40 min Another big chance for QPR! The ball breaks awkwardly to Cisse in the area but the striker engineers a volleyed shot on goal that Jaaskelainen does well to tip over. 39 min West Ham corner, which Noble takes from the right. It's headed away by Onuoha. SWP latches on to the clearance and is cynically fouled by Diame. The defender is booked for his troubles. 38 min Cesar should save this, yes? QPR 0 - West Ham 2 (Vaz Te) Oh dear, oh dear. That's an absolute robbery. QPR fail to clear their lines and the ball is crossed towards Vaz Te on the left-hand side of the box. He fires towards goal from a tight angle and Cesar is beaten at his near post for another cheap goal. West Ham make their second injury-enforced change of the match with O'Brien being replaced by McCartney. 34 min Granero protests with the referee after the referee blows up for his foul on Noble. Big Sam looks delighted on the touchline, clapping away like a proud father. 33 min Demel does well to hold off Cisse, who was enthusiastically chasing a long-ball 31 min Cole and Nelsen have a bit of a tangle that ends in Cole hitting the deck and getting an accidental set of studs in his ribcage. A swig of a water bottle and he's back on his feet. 29 min Good news for West Ham. Winston Reid is alive and well, chatting to staff and fully recovered from that elbow that forced him off. 28 min Demel is full of beans down the right flank tonight. He charges towards the corner flag but runs out of options and the attack comes to an end. 26 min Teasing ball in from the right by Noble but neither Cole or Diame can meaningfully connect with the ball and QPR live to fight another day. 24 min Diame pinches the ball off QPR and goes on surging run towards their goal before he is crowded out and dispossessed. QPR surge upfield but their attack comes to an end when Zamora dithers and can only muster a lofted throughball into the arms of Jaaskelainen. 23 min That substitution is confirmed. On comes Tomkins. 22 min That's a shame. Reid will play no further part in tonight's match, with Jaaskelainen's elbow doing for him. Tomkins prepares to enter the fray in his place. 19 min So close for QPR! Jaaskelainen comes for the free-kick but fails to claim it. The ball drops, then hits the arm of a West Ham defender. The Rs try and claim a handball but it's cleared away with the ref unconvinced. The game is then stopped while Reid, who was elbowed by his 'keeper during that bit of defensive chaos, receives attention. 18 min Bit of vintage trickery from SWP just outside the area and O'Brien decides he has no choice but to the bring the little winger down. Dangerous free-kick for QPR. 17 min Zamora is fouled in the centre-circle by Noble. Maybe a bit harsh as it looked like a fair challenge. QPR once again give the ball away in attack and Jarvis has a little run at the defence. His cross from the right is straight to Cesar though. 16 min The hosts have had 61 per cent of the possession so far as they go in pursuit of their first home goal of the season. In October. 14 min I do not recall a moment in this match when QPR have got beyond a second pass in the middle of the pitch. West Ham winning that battle hands down. 13 min Chance goes begging for QPR! Nice cutback from SWP to Granero, in plenty of space in the box, but he blazes over! 12 min A mail from Jon who is unhappy with QPR's hapless defence: The only 3D we need is 3 Defenders! We clearly need a new defensive coach, we can't keep leaking goals if we want to stay up, Hughes must be feeling the pressure and rightly so, are we really any better now than under Neil Warnock? 11 min Cisse runs at Noble down the right flank but the West Ham midfielder gets his body in the way and draws a foul out of the Frenchman. 10 min Diame wriggles free from the attentions of Wright-Phillips before unleashing a shot on goal. It gets a wild deflection and almost beats the flat-footed Cesar! West Ham corner. 9 min Hill with a free-kick after a foul from Cole, but once again the delivery finds a West Ham head. 8 min QPR set-piece comes to nothing for the second time in this game. 7 min Now then. Park on the ball in the middle trying to get his side back into this. He passes to Wright-Phillips but the winger slips and gives the ball away. QPR regain possession and it makes its way back to SWP, who puts in a tempting delivery that is diverted out for a corner before it can reach Cisse. 5 min It's a nightmare start for QPR. I'm not even sure if Jarvis was going for goal. It looked more as if he was heading it across goal for Cole. But it matters not. It counts and the home side have now got to dig very deep. QPR 0 - West Ham 1 (Jarvis) Carlton Cole heads away the free-kick and the ball reaches Vaz Te who links up well with Nolan down the right. Nolan mis-hits his shot on goal and it is deflected towards Jarvis, unmarked on the far post, who nods past Cesar for a fairly fortunate opener! 2 min Cisse is bodychecked by O'Brien as he tears down the right touchline. It does not go unnoticed and QPR have a free-kick. 1 min Shaun Wright-Phillips's first touch of the game is not a good one. His attempt to dribble down the line results in him escorting the ball out of play. 20.00 Kick-off almost upon us. With QPR playing left-to-right in thist first half. Cisse and Zamora to get us going.... 19.56 Handshakes. I have become so used to these having some massive controversial significance attached to them. But not tonight. 22 men shaking hands in fairly routine fashion. 19.54 The players are in the tunnel and Ji-Sung Park is ready to lead out his QPR side. "A dream of a player," says Gary Neville. 19.49 Another epic stat for you. West Ham's Carroll and Nolan have scored 10 goals between them in the 17 Premier League games they've played together in. Nolan is also one of the most goaltastic midfielders in the league's history as this graphic explains: 19.46 Not long now, football fans. Love to have a read of some of your emails tonight. Send a prediction or observation over to nick.pearce@telegraph.co.uk...... 19.44 Pre-match stattage from our chums at Opta: 19.42 It's that time of the week where football fans take to Twitter to lavish praise on Gary Neville's powers of analysis. I can tell he's good, but it's too much for me. I was raised in Wimbledon in the 90s so I like to keep things simple. Wingers, big man up front, long ball. Boom. For deeper thoughts on football analysis have a read of my colleague Thom Gibbs's column on the subject: Treasure Goals On Sunday. In a time of increasingly cerebral and worthwhile football coverage it is a relic of blandness, a festival of saying absolutely nothing. 19.37 QPR manager Mark Hughes with some "Keep Calm And Carry On" spin: I've been happy with performances. We've gone up against top-class opposition and acquitted ourselves really well. We've struggled of late with injuries but we've made the best of it despite the lack of a settled back-four. I haven't Cisse and Bobby a chance together at home yet so I thought I'd give them an opportunity tonight. We've got a lot of options up front and it's about striking a balance. 19.34 A win for West Ham tonight would see them up to joint-fifth and in the Europa League spots, while three points for QPR would ease them out of the drop-zone and resign Reading to the foot of the log. 19.26 Even fans of these two great football clubs would acknowledge that this isn't the most glamorous Monday Night Football of the season, but we don't see it that way here at Telegraph Sport. We've sent our top man Henry Winter to watch: 19.24 There was a time that Zamora was banging them in for West Ham. Let us relive that four-year period in musical montage form: 19.22 I understand that an injury is keeping Kieron Dyer out of tonight's game. He has now completed 100 loyalty stampbooks from his local physio and wins a free kitbag and water bottle. 19.20 Here's some words from Sam Allardyce. I have redacted his contractual reference to the "Barclays Premier League" because it makes me angry. There's a slight risk [in picking Andy Carroll] I suppose but if we need him off the bench we can use him. We want to come out and clinch our first away win if at all possible. 19.10 I have some team news for you: QPR: Cesar, Hill, Nelsen, Mbia, Onuoha, Park, Granero, Faurlin, Wright-Phillips, Cisse, Zamora. Subs: Green, Diakite, Taarabt, Mackie, Ehmer, Ephrain, Hoilett. West Ham: Jaaskelainen, Demel, Collins, Reid, O'Brien, Noble, Diame, Nolan, Vaz Te, Jarvis, Cole. Subs: Henderson, McCartney, Tomkins, O'Neil, Benayoun, Carroll, Maiga 19.02 Sky Sports begin their coverage by telling us that Andy Carroll has made the bench for West Ham tonight. Bonus for Big Sam. 19.01 Interesting interview with Bobby Zamora, the ex-Hammer and current Ranger, who tells the Evening Standard that top 10 is an achievable goal for his current employers: Top 10 would be a success for us and that is a very achievable goal. The new faces are in now and I've been impressed with them. We have played a couple of good teams and it is early days. We are certainly not worried. I'd like to think I do my job quite well. If I am not scoring, then I like to think I am working hard and doing something for the team. 18.50 Here is a picture of the aforementioned dugout seats at Loftus Road tweeted by QPR chairman Tony Fernandes who writes: "Our new dug out seats at loftus road. Here hoping we have a bit of luck. 18.45 Good evening and thanks for joining me for this liveblog of tonight's west v east London grudge match from Loftus Road. Queens Park Rangers are struggling at the foot of the table without a win all season and are in desperate need of a victory to ignite their Premier League campaign, so the innovative thinkers at the club have revealed two secret weapons. A new tactical approach? A gamechanging strength and conditioning regime for all players? Nope. Luxury padded seats in the dugout and 3D matchday programmes. Rangers truly are the league's great entertainers. Disclaimer: please supply your own 3D glasses All the important information regarding tonight's game can be found below including a bold prediction from our very own statistician and football expert, John Ley: QPR (Possible, 4-4-2): Julio Cesar; Dyer, Nelsen, Hill, Onuoha; Wright-Phillips, Faurlin, Granero, Park; Hoilett, Zamora. Out: Ferdinand, Bosingwa, Fabio (all hamstring), Traore (leg), Johnson (knee). West Ham (Possible, 4-2-3-1): Jaaskelainen; Demel, Collins, Reid, O'Brien; Noble, Diame; Vaz Te, Nolan, Benayoun; Cole. Out: Carroll (hamstring), Collison (knee). Referee: Mark Clattenburg. Matches 2, R0 Y3. Team News QPR are without four first-team defenders for Monday's London derby against West Ham in the Barclays Premier League. Anton Ferdinand, Jose Bosingwa and Fabio are all out with hamstring injuries and Armand Traore is also unavailable. Striker Andy Johnson is out with a long-term knee injury but midfielder Adel Taarabt could return after missing the last two games with a hamstring problem. Meanwhile, West Ham midfielder Gary O'Neil says has recovered from the knee injury he sustained during Tuesday's defeat to Wigan and will be fit for West Ham's London derby against QPR on Monday. Sam Allardyce is likely to make wholesale changes from the XI that were beaten 4-1 by the Latics, although Modibo Maiga could keep his place after scoring on his second consecutive start. On-loan Liverpool striker Andy Carroll is unlikely to play and Jack Collison is unavailable but Yossi Benayoun could make his first start since moving back to the Hammers on loan. Match Notes For all their summer signings, Queens Park Rangers have yet to come good. After taking just two league points there were high hopes of a boost in the Capital One Cup but Reading dashed those, so it's back to the drawing board for Mark Hughes. West Ham will be satisfied with their first season back in the top flight even if they, like QPR, they suffered a home defeat in midweek. Close to call, with maybe one goal in it. Betting: Home 21-20, Away 5-2, Draw 9-4. Stat of the game: In 11 games against QPR manager Mark Hughes, West Ham's Sam Allardyce has won just two, losing five and drawing four. John Ley's prediction: Queens Park Rangers 0 West Ham United 1.