QPR v Birmingham: Chery starts

Tjaronn Chery is given a starting place for QPR’s game against Birmingham City at Loftus Road.

Junior Hoilett and Sebastian Polter are also included in the starting line-up by Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, who has won just two of his 15 matches in charge.

Daniel Tozser drops to the substitutes’ bench, where he is joined by Alejandro Faurlin, who is back in the squad after a thigh problem. Paul Konchesky is again left out.

Meanwhile, Birmingham striker Nicolai Brock-Madsen is still out with a thigh problem but Jonathan Grounds has recovered from a knock in time to play.

QPR: Smithies, Onuoha, Angella, Hall, Perch, Henry, Luongo, Phillips, Chery, Hoilett, Polter.
Subs: Ingram, El Khayati, Konchesky, Tozser, Washington, Petrasso, Faurlin.

Birmingham: Kuszczak, Shotton, Robinson, Morrison, Grounds, Kieftenbeld, Gleeson, Cotterill, Fabbrini, Maghoma, Donaldson.
Subs: Legzdins, Vaughan, Toral, Spector, Davis, Buckley, Caddis.