"It's a derby game, and they have their way to play. It's different compared to Coventry, but this is the Championship. It's very hard but this is the challenge for all the teams. If you play against different styles of football every week, you need to find solutions and keep a strong mentality. We are into the last three months of the season now. It's not about the position in the table, it's just a question of freshness, ambition and mentality."
"We need to be ready to play a man's game, a very physical game probably,"
"We need to be able to deal with all the situations. It's also an away game so a different atmosphere. We need to be ready, and to play with ambition. That is very important for us, and for Charlton as well."
"Football is strange. One week you can be 2-1 up at 90+1 and lose in 90+4 (against Wrexham) or be 1-0 down to the best team in the league and win 2-1 (against) Coventry. We also saw it when we came from behind at Bristol City in October. When you experience that as a team, you are able to repeat that in the long term, and push the players to show their character and quality."
Julien Stephan warned Queens Park Rangers to expect a different, likely very physical derby when they visit Charlton Athletic. QPR arrive off a 2-1 comeback win against Coventry and sit 11th, four points off the top six. Charlton climbed to 18th after a 2-0 victory at Leicester and seek safety. Stephan emphasised adapting to varied opposition styles, finding solutions, and maintaining freshness, ambition and mentality across the final three months. He noted football's inconsistency, citing a stoppage-time defeat to Wrexham and comeback wins, and stressed the importance of character and readiness for an away atmosphere.
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