Huddersfield Town vs AFC Wimbledon - prediction, team news, lineups

Huddersfield Town and AFC Wimbledon volition footwear disconnected their League One seasons connected Saturday, erstwhile they quadrate disconnected astatine the Accu Stadium successful the archetypal circular of fixtures.

Both teams went to punishment shootouts successful EFL Cup ties past week and present footwear disconnected their 3rd and 2nd consecutive League One presumption respectively.

Match preview

Huddersfield Town volition rise the curtain connected their 3rd consecutive League One play connected Saturday and their archetypal nether the imperishable absorption of Martin Drury.

After their Championship relegation, the Terriers' archetypal 2 campaigns successful the 3rd tier person been underwhelming, failing to scope the playoffs connected either juncture and playing nether 5 antithetic managers.

Drury was the past of those, connected a impermanent ground alongside Jon Stead, and helium oversaw an eventual ninth-placed finish, with the Terriers finishing connected 67 points, 8 abbreviated of the apical six having won 18 games and mislaid 15 implicit the term.

The nine hierarchy past opted to manus him the imperishable reins, and Drury began with a pre-season that included wins implicit Oldham Athletic and Middlesbrough, earlier they visited Preston North End past play successful the EFL Cup archetypal round, yet dropping retired successful a punishment shootout aft a 1-1 gully against 10 men successful mean time, starring done Radinio Balker and being pegged backmost successful wounded time.

Now with their afloat absorption connected improving successful League One and sustaining an improved situation for promotion oregon a top-six place, Huddersfield Town volition look to statesman with 3 points connected location turf astatine the weekend.

They conscionable a visiting broadside keen to footwear connected successful League One aft a pugnacious archetypal run past clip around.

After winning promotion from League Two nether Johnnie Jackson, AFC Wimbledon successfully avoided the driblet past clip around, albeit finishing 20th connected 53 points - 4 points and 2 places supra the relegation zone.

That adjacent telephone was down to a dismal tally to extremity the campaign, arsenic the Dons mislaid 9 and won 1 of their last 11 games, and they volition present purpose for a much comfy mid-table spot successful the upcoming season, having undergone a pre-season tally which included wins implicit Sutton United and Charlton Athletic and losses to Wealdstone and QPR.

Their archetypal competitory crippled past came astatine location to Newport County successful the EFL Cup past weekend, and Jackson's men scraped through, falling down successful the 71st infinitesimal and equalising heavy into wounded clip done Callum Maycock earlier prevailing successful the punishment shootout.

They present caput to the Accu Stadium with the hopes of taking a scalp connected the opening time and enactment 3 points connected the committee to statesman the term.

Huddersfield Town signifier (all competitions):

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AFC Wimbledon signifier (all competitions):

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Team News

Huddersfield Town volition tract a akin starting XI from the 1 that drew astatine Preston past play earlier the punishment shootout loss, with striker Bojan Radulovic inactive sidelined with an wounded that has ruled him retired since mid-April.

In that game, Marcus Harness joined summertime signings Ashley Fletcher and Derensili Sanches Fernandes successful a new-look beforehand three, though Joe Taylor does person a assertion to commencement having scored 11 League One goals successful the 2nd fractional of past play portion retired connected indebtedness with Wigan Athletic.

Midfielder Archie Collins joined the nine connected Thursday, but helium whitethorn not yet beryllium up to velocity to diagnostic from the outset, apt leaving Ryan Ledson and David Kasumu to proceed successful the mediate of their 3-4-3 signifier portion Radinio Balker, Jack Whatmough and Sean Roughan should enactment up successful an unchanged backmost three.

AFC Wimbledon are incapable to telephone connected defender Joe Lewis and attacker Mathew Stevens, some of whom person missed pre-season done injuries.

Their astir notable summertime departures were defender Patrick Bauer and attacker Omar Bugiel, and Jackson has been capable to adhd Dan Sweeney, Steven Sessegnon and Jayden Stockley portion making the indebtedness stays of James Tilley and Zack Nelson permanent.

Stockley whitethorn travel successful to spearhead the attack, portion Callum Maycock, who scored precocious disconnected the seat against Newport, should besides diagnostic from the outset.

Huddersfield Town imaginable starting lineup:

Young; Balker, Whatmough, Roughan; Sorensen, Ledson, Kasumu, Gooch; Harness, Fletcher, Taylor

AFC Wimbledon imaginable starting lineup:

Bishop; Ogundere, Sweeney, Johnson; Tilley, Nelson, Smith, Maycock, Seddon; Browne, Stockley

We say: Huddersfield Town 3-1 AFC Wimbledon

Huddersfield Town boast acold much prime than their past 2 League One finishes suggest, and we backmost them to bask a affirmative commencement to Drury's tenure arsenic imperishable manager, starting by making their superior prime number successful an opening-day location win.

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