Former Huddersfield Town man Smithies, 25, replaces Rob Green after he was sent off in Saturday's defeat by Nottingham Forest, while Jamie Mackie and Alejandro Faurlin make their return to the QPR bench.

Rovers have made just one change from their 2-0 loss to Fulham, with Bengali-Fode Koita coming in for Nathan Delfouneso.

Jason Lowe, Chris Brown and Chris Taylor are all still out injured for the Lancashire side.

QPR have won only one of their last 13 league meetings with Blackburn, drawing five and losing seven.

Queens Park Rangers: Smithies; Perch, Onuoha, Angella, Konchesky; Tozser, Henry, Phillips, Luongo; Austin, Chery
Subs: Lumley, Hall, Hill, Gladwin, Doughty, Faurlin, Mackie

Blackburn Rovers: Steele; Henley, Duffy, Hanley, Spurr; Marshall, Guthrie, Evans, Conway, Koita; Rhodes
Subs: Raya, Kilgallon, Delfouneso, Olsson, Lawrence, O'Sullivan, Akpan

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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Sunderland	15	9	4	2	25	11	14	31
2	Sheffield United Sheff Utd	15	10	3	2	19	7	12	31
3	Leeds United Leeds	15	8	5	2	24	9	15	29
4	Burnley	15	7	6	2	18	6	12	27
5	West Bromwich Albion West Brom	15	6	7	2	16	9	7	25
6	Watford	15	8	1	6	23	22	1	25
7	Middlesbrough	15	7	3	5	23	17	6	24
8	Millwall	15	6	5	4	18	13	5	23
9	Blackburn Rovers Blackburn	15	6	4	5	19	17	2	22
10	Bristol City	15	5	7	3	20	19	1	22
11	Swansea City Swansea	15	5	4	6	11	10	1	19
12	Derby County Derby	15	5	4	6	19	19	0	19
13	Stoke City Stoke	15	5	4	6	18	19	-1	19
14	Norwich City Norwich	15	4	6	5	23	22	1	18
15	Sheffield Wednesday Sheff Weds	15	5	3	7	17	25	-8	18
16	Oxford United Oxford Utd	15	4	5	6	17	18	-1	17
17	Coventry City Coventry	15	4	4	7	20	21	-1	16
18	Plymouth Argyle Plymouth	15	4	4	7	15	26	-11	16
19	Hull City	15	3	6	6	16	20	-4	15
20	Preston North End Preston	15	3	6	6	15	23	-8	15
21	Luton Town Luton	15	4	3	8	17	26	-9	15
22	Cardiff City Cardiff	15	4	3	8	14	23	-9	15
23	Portsmouth	15	2	6	7	16	28	-12	12
24	Queens Park Rangers QPR	15	1	7	7	12	25	-13	10