Venue: Loftus Road Date: Tuesday, 17 March Kick-off: 2000 GMT Coverage: Full commentary on BBC Radio Wales (SW FM only), live text commentary online and score updates on BBC Radio 5 Live
Spaniard Roberto Martinez is the Championship's youngest manager
Roberto Martinez believes Swansea City's wheeler dealer tactics in the transfer market make them unique among the Championship promotion chasers.
The thrifty Swans visit QPR, one of Britain's richest football clubs, hoping to reignite their play-off bid.
"We are the only club in the top ten that who are working with our budget," said Swansea boss Martinez.
"That is a compliment to the way we rely on developing our players - it is extra work but gets you good results."
Roberto Martinez's most expensive signing for the paupers of Swansea is Wales defender Ashley Williams' arrival for £400,000.
While the princes of QPR have the vast funds to blow any rival bidder out of the water when trying to sign a player as Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, worth a reported £12.5bn, has a 20% stake in the club.
Swansea's 21-goal top-scorer Jason Scotland cost a cut-price £25,000 from St Johnstone, impressive full-back Angel Rangel and injured midfielder Ferrie Bodde cost five-figure sums while Martinez has also signed a host of freebies.
A local consortium of Swansea-based businessmen run the club on a prudent basis and reported just a £91,761 loss in the year until May 2008 - a sum that does not include its playing squad as assets.
Swansea's playing budget is relatively small and QPR's January purchase of Wayne Routledge from Aston Villa for an estimated £600,000 is almost as much as Martinez has spent on buying players in his two years at the Liberty Stadium.
"We are very different in the way we do our business, we're unique," acknowledged Martinez.
"We will carry on in this way as we try to get to the next step, we continue to follow players in the younger stages of their career where we can afford them.
"We make sure they have the right mentality and right personality to play for Swansea City.
"It is a little bit extra work but you get a lot of results out of it."
Martinez watched his him lose 3-1 at home to Crystal Palace on Saturday but the Swans boss, though, has not suffered back-to-back losses since taking over from Kenny Jackett in February 2007.
Swansea are without a win in their four Championship away trips and have never won at Loftus Road.
Martinez said: "It is important we react positively after Saturday's defeat and it is our game in hand.
"It will be a great opportunity to get rid of the horrible feeling that we felt on Saturday."
Swansea are three points and three places outside the play-off zone top six after their 3-1 defeat to Crystal Palace on Saturday, just their second loss in 20 league games.
But Rangers, despite their multi-million pound backer, are in mid-table and have just an outside play-off chance.
The London club have not won at home since Christmas and have gone nine Championship games without a win.
But Martinez warned: "They are not far away from a win, they are still a very dangerous team because there are huge expectation.
"They have good players and it is only a matter of time when they click and it will all come into place, hopefully we work hard enough on Tuesday that they don't click until after we play them."
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