Summer signings Jaylen Pearman and Tylon Smith have been handed debuts for QPR in tonight’s Carabao Cup first-round tie and there are also senior debuts for youngsters Jaiden Putman and Alex Wilkie.

Australian midfielder Pearman and South African centre-back Smith are part of an extremely young Rangers line-up at Home Park.

Another summer signing, Rumarn Burrell, makes his full debut, as does Harvey Vale.

There are also starting places for Rayan Kolli, Emmerson Sutton and Daniel Bennie.

West London Sport revealed ahead of the game that the Rangers line-up would be dominated by youngsters – and that the club could field its second-youngest player.

Winger Kalen Brunson and forward Ashley Trujillo, both 16, are on the bench.

Both are younger than Scott Donnelly was in October 2004, when became the second-youngest player to appear in a first-team match for Rangers, aged 16 years and 298 days.

Brunson is 16 years and 121 days old, and Trujillo 16 years and 249 days.

Former QPR player, coach and manager Frank Sibley was 15 when he made his first-team debut in 1963, which remains the club record.

Brunson is Bermudian and arrived at QPR in December via a football-schools programme run by a company owned by former R’s defender Matthew Rose.

The London-born Trujillo has played for Colombia – where both his parents are from – at youth level.

QPR: Nardi, Putman, Wilkie, Smith, Vale, Dixon-Bonner, Pearman, Sutton, Bennie, Kolli, Burrell.
Subs: Salamon, Leahy, McCann, Tuck, Tarbotton, Brunson, Trujillo, Talla, Dillon.

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