Duo set to return

11 February 2011 11:00
QPR hope to welcome back Tommy Smith and Heidar Helguson for Sunday's top-of-the-table clash with Nottingham Forest. Midfielder Smith missed last Friday's win over Reading with a hamstring problem and striker Helguson has been struggling with a groin injury. But manager Neil Warnock expects the key duo to be fit in time for the televised showdown. Warnock will be without Hogan Ephraim, who starts a three-match ban following his dismissal at the Madejski Stadium. Fellow winger Wayne Routledge, who hit the winner against the Royals, should play despite needing a course of antibiotics for an abscess on his tooth. Midfielder Akos Buzsaky played for the reserves this week after four months out with a knee injury but will not be rushed back.

Source: PA