Huddersfield Town vs Blackburn Rovers - prediction, team news, lineups

Blackburn Rovers are acceptable to proceed their pre-season mentation with a travel to Huddersfield Town on Saturday.

The hosts vie successful League One, portion the visitors stay a Championship broadside aft narrowly avoiding relegation past season.

Match preview

Huddersfield finished ninth successful League One past season, finishing conscionable 8 points disconnected the playoffs, and they volition beryllium looking to equine different promotion bid.

Head manager Martin Drury has strengthened his squad with the additions of Ethan Brierley, Ashley Fletcher, Ilias Bronkhorst, Matty Young and Derensili Sanches Fernandes.

Huddersfield person played 4 pre-season friendlies truthful far, beating Fylde and suffering defeats to Birmingham City, Sheffield United and Fleetwood Town.

This volition beryllium Drury's archetypal play arsenic a imperishable caput coach, having been handed the relation connected an interim ground past play aft Liam Manning took compassionate leave.

Drury has an extended coaching background, having antecedently worked astatine Bradford City, Manchester United, West Bromwich Albion, Valencia and Brentford, and helium volition beryllium keen to enactment his acquisition to bully usage astatine Huddersfield.

Blackburn, meanwhile, finished 20th successful the Championship past play and were conscionable 5 points supra the relegation zone.

In a bid to debar being dragged into different endurance conflict this season, caller caput manager Tony Mowbray has signed the likes of Moussa Baradji and Jayden Fevrier.

Mowbray is backmost astatine Blackburn for a 2nd stint astatine the helm, having antecedently spent 5 years successful complaint of the nine betwixt 2017 and 2022.

Rovers person played 3 pre-season friendlies truthful far, drafting 0-0 with Accrington Stanley earlier losing 3-0 to Nottingham Forest and beating Strasbourg 2-0.

Huddersfield Town signifier (all competitions):

L W L L

Blackburn Rovers signifier (all competitions):

D L W

Team News

Huddersfield person been utilizing a backmost 3 strategy nether Drury and are apt to proceed with Radinio Balker, Jack Whatmough and Murray Wallace successful defence.

Joe Taylor is acceptable to pb the enactment pursuing his awesome indebtedness spell astatine Wigan Athletic, with enactment from caller signing Fletcher and Antony Evans.

Blackburn are expected to beryllium without the likes of Scott Wharton and Lewis Miller done injury.

Last season's apical scorer Yuki Ohashi is acceptable to commencement up front, with skipper Todd Cantwell and Dion De Neve featuring retired wide.

Huddersfield Town imaginable starting lineup:

Young; Balker, Whatmough, Wallace; Gooch, Ledson, Brierley, Mumba; Evans, Fletcher; Taylor

Blackburn Rovers imaginable starting lineup:

Pears; Litherland, Carter, Pratt, Pickering; Cantwell, Garrett, Baradji, Henriksen, De Neve; Ohashi

We say: Huddersfield Town 1-2 Blackburn Rovers

Blackburn person been successful amended signifier successful pre-season and person a stronger squad connected paper, which is wherefore we are backing them to prime up the win.

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