QPR will again be without suspended midfielder Ben Watson when they host Leicester City in the Championship on Friday evening.

The on-loan Wigan star serves the second game of his two-match ban for his recent sending-off against Reading - his second red card of the season.

Utility man Mikele Leigertwood returned as a substitute at Derby last weekend following a bout of swine flu and will push for a start either in midfield or at right-back.

Rangers, who will move level with second-placed Cardiff with a victory, are still missing a host of players through injury and illness.

Skipper Martin Rowlands is out for the season with a cruciate injury, defender Matthew Connolly is still missing with glandular fever and midfielder Hogan Ephraim (ankle), winger Lee Cook (knee) and strikers Angelo Balanta (groin) and Alessandro Pellicori (knee) are also sidelined.

Leicester's squad is unchanged for the trip to Loftus Road.

Bulgarian defender Aleksandar Tunchev remains the only absentee as he recovers from another knee operation.

Manager Nigel Pearson is unlikely to make too many changes to his starting line-up following Monday night's 1-0 win over Reading.

After scoring the goals that saw City return to winning ways at home to Crystal Palace in the previous game, Paul Gallacher was recalled at the Madejski Stadium.

The only other change against the Royals saw on loan striker Martyn Waghorn come into the side and the Sunderland teenager responded by netting the winning goal.

Following successive clean sheets, the defence is likely to remain the same so Bruno Berner and Michael Morrison look set for substitute roles once more.

At the other end of the pitch, Dany N'Guessan, Yann Kermorgant, Steve Howard and DJ Campbell provide the options should Pearson want to freshen up his attack.