Bradford City vs Huddersfield Town - prediction, team news, lineups

Bradford City invited Huddersfield Town to Valley Parade connected Saturday day for their latest installation of League One enactment successful the 2026-27 campaign.

In their erstwhile league outing, the Bantams played retired a goalless gully with Oxford United astatine the Kassam Stadium, portion the Terriers posted a 2-1 triumph implicit Wigan Athletic connected location soil.

Match preview

After narrowly missing retired connected promotion to the Championship past season, losing 2-0 connected aggregate to Bolton Wanderers successful their playoff semi-final tie, Bradford person made an fantabulous commencement to their latest league run and volition beryllium looking to instrumentality to the English 2nd tier for the archetypal clip successful 23 years astatine the extremity of May.

Having failed to suffer immoderate of their latest 8 league matches, a tally that spans backmost to their 2-1 location decision against Cambridge United connected September 1st, the Bantams person dilatory risen up the League One table and presently beryllium 4th with 22 points, conscionable 3 less than Saturday’s opponents astatine the summit.

While they person faltered successful onslaught truthful acold this season, Michael Duff’s men person been superb defensively, conceding conscionable 5 goals to boast the joint-best antiaircraft grounds crossed the apical 4 tiers of English shot since the opening of the campaign, alongside Premier League champions Arsenal.

It is not lone successful their league endeavours that they person succeeded either, arsenic pursuing their 2-0 triumph implicit chap League One outfit Peterborough United connected Tuesday evening, Bradford person progressed to the quarter-final signifier of the EFL Cup for the archetypal clip since their historical tally to the competition’s last successful the 2012-13 season.

Although they person struggled against Huddersfield successful caller years, winning conscionable 1 of the erstwhile 10 meetings with the Terriers, Bradford did assertion a 3-1 triumph erstwhile the sides faced disconnected successful past season’s corresponding fixture courtesy of a Bobby Pointon brace and Josh Neufville strike.

Following a 2nd consecutive twelvemonth extracurricular the playoffs astatine the extremity of past season, finishing ninth successful League One and trailing Stevenage successful sixth by 8 points, Huddersfield volition beryllium delighted with however they person begun their 2026-27 league campaign.

Having picked up 13 points from their erstwhile 5 League One matches, including an awesome 2-0 triumph implicit Plymouth Argyle astatine Home Park, Liam Manning’s men person climbed to the acme of the part successful caller weeks and presently clasp a two-point pb implicit second-placed Stockport County, with a crippled successful hand.

Unlike their opposition, the Terriers’ strengths this play person undoubtedly travel astatine the different extremity of the transportation arsenic aft 12 league matches, Saturday’s visitors person netted 24 goals, a tally that tin lone beryllium bettered by 4 different sides successful the EFL and ranks 2nd down lone Reading successful the 3rd tier.

With 3 wins from the erstwhile 4 meetings betwixt the sides, including a 1-0 triumph erstwhile they welcomed Bradford to the Accu Stadium successful January, Huddersfield volition beryllium assured that they tin support their pb astatine the acme of the League One array by delivering yet different connection triumph connected Saturday afternoon.

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Team News

Picking up a 5th yellowish paper of the play against Oxford past weekend, Callum Connolly volition service a suspension for Bradford connected Saturday day and could beryllium replaced by 20-year-old Kieran Morgan successful midfield.

Neufville is besides acceptable to miss retired successful the mediate of the parkland for the hosts arsenic helium continues his rehabilitation from a hamstring injury, portion Stephen Humphreys is apt to beryllium unavailable with a backmost occupation that helium sustained against Burton Albion past week.

Having been absent successful Tuesday evening’s EFL Cup clash owed to tonsillitis, it remains to beryllium seen whether Nick Powell tin diagnostic this weekend, though pursuing a setback successful his recovery, chap midfielder Tyreik Wright is present apt to beryllium retired until the extremity of the year.

In defence, Huddersfield are missing some Murray Wallace and Jack Whatmough arsenic the brace transportation genu and calf issues respectively, nevertheless they did invited Radinio Balker backmost to the matchday squad against Wigan past weekend.

The Terriers are besides missing a fistful of players successful midfield arsenic David Kasumu, Herbie Kane, Ryan Ledson and Marcus McGuane are each presently listed arsenic sidelined, meaning Dutch defender Ilias Bronkhorst is apt to erstwhile again play further forward.

Contributing to 21 league goals betwixt them truthful acold this season, Joe Taylor and Derensili Sanches Fernandes person crafted a formidable concern successful the Huddersfield onslaught and are definite to beryllium the visitors’ biggest menace going guardant erstwhile again against Bradford.

Bradford City imaginable starting lineup:

McCracken; Pennington, Baldwin, Pratt; O'Keeffe, Sarcevic, Morgan, Touray; Phillips, Beesley, Pointon

Huddersfield Town imaginable starting lineup:

Young; Low, Bowat, Roughan; Bronkhorst, Collins, Humphreys, Mumba; Sanches Fernandes, Fletcher, Taylor

We say: Bradford City 1-1 Huddersfield Town

Unbeaten successful each of their erstwhile 12 matches, Bradford volition beryllium hoping to usage their beardown caller signifier to assertion lone a 2nd triumph against Huddersfield successful the past 21 years.

However, with the Terriers besides looking incredibly strong, claiming triumph successful 5 of their latest six fixtures successful each competitions, we deliberation the sides volition beryllium evenly matched connected Saturday day and stock the points astatine Valley Parade.

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