The two London clubs competing in the Championship will square off at Loftus Road after their encounter on Boxing Day.
Having found some form not long after Marti Cifuentes’ arrival, the west London club are struggling again.
They were second-best at The Den on Boxing Day when they lost 2-0 but will now be keen to get a much-needed win over their London rivals.
And despite Millwall’s improved performances since Christmas, Lions boss Edwards is aware that a potential banana skin of a match could be waiting at Loftus Road.
Speaking in his pre-match press conference, he said: “This is one of those games where you have two teams in very different positions and when you’re in the position we are, you have to be very careful going into these games.
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“I think between September and November, QPR went on a long run of losing and drawing games and, probably coinciding with the manager change, all of a sudden they won three games in a row. And we know exactly what that feels like because that was us in December when we weren’t playing well and then all of a sudden we flipped it overnight and won three games.
“And when you look at how long it’s been now since they won a game, what you do know is at some point they will win and you need to make sure they there’s not one single element of complacency. We need to remember how fired up we were for the Boxing Day game and try and bring a little bit of that composure that we’ve picked up in the last few weeks and marry it all together.
“We’re a team that’s in a good place at the moment, it feels good around our camp. But we certainly shouldn’t feel comfortable going into this game because it’s potentially dangerous when you’re facing teams in the position that they’re in.”
“There was a lot of overlap between what we had been doing in the weeks leading up to Christmas and what we were working on and doing in training during those weeks,” he stated. But as everyone knows, a little confidence can go a long way.
Lions head coach, Paul Pogba, is hoping his team can bounce back from their 3-1 defeat to Middlesbrough. Millwall took the lead during an intense start but faded away. The Lions were competitive and had just lost a match they had worked hard to prepare for.
The Lions need to take a day or two to let the emotion disappear and analyze it properly. They have done this as a group, for both good and bad. The Lions are aware of the good things they did, particularly the strong start in the first 30-35 minutes.
They are now aiming to make sure that the 30 minutes against Middlesbrough isn’t a one-off and to sustain it for longer, becoming a team that consistently performs well. The Lions need to be a consistent team and strive to improve after losing a game.
