Huddersfield Town vs Mansfield Town - prediction, team news, lineups

Both aiming to transportation unbeaten streaks into the extremity of the League One season, Huddersfield Town and Mansfield Town volition bash conflict astatine the Accu Stadium connected Saturday successful the penultimate play of the season.

A tally of 3 consecutive draws has near the hosts incapable to interruption into the apical six of the League One table successful the last run-in, portion their visitors are six points worse disconnected having returned to the apical fractional with a midweek win.

Match preview

Huddersfield Town instrumentality to enactment for their penultimate crippled of the League One play connected Saturday with the playoff places present retired of reach.

In their bid to bounce backmost to the Championship astatine the 2nd clip of asking, the Terriers person again fallen abbreviated of a top-six spot, presently sat eighth having earned 64 points from their 44 games frankincense far, winning 17 and losing 14 of those portion nary broadside successful the apical fractional person conceded much than the 60 goals they person allowed.

When Liam Manning was granted compassionate permission for the remainder of the play successful precocious March, Jon Stead took impermanent complaint for their last effort astatine crashing the apical six connected the backmost of a three-game winless streak, and, portion helium has overseen a five-match unbeaten run, conscionable 1 of those games person ended successful triumph distant astatine Leyton Orient.

They person since seen their top-six hopes slice distant with 3 consecutive draws, firstly against Wycombe and Cardiff City, conceding injury-time equalisers, earlier playing retired a 3-3 gully with Bolton Wanderers past weekend, again successful agonising manner arsenic Ibrahima Cissoko levelled for the hosts successful the 101st infinitesimal aft the Terriers looked acceptable to triumph 3-2 done David Kasumu's brace and Marcus Harness's goal.

Now near to rue their nonaccomplishment to spot retired victories successful each of those 3 matches, leaving them with an unassailable eight-point spread to the apical six with conscionable 2 games left, Huddersfield Town volition astatine slightest bid to extremity the play connected a precocious with a brace of victories starting connected Saturday earlier turning their absorption to adjacent term's promotion bid.

Their visitors, meanwhile, caput to the Accu Stadium successful hunt of back-to-back victories to fortify their hopes of a top-half decorativeness successful League One.

On the backmost of a 17th-placed decorativeness successful their archetypal word backmost successful England's 3rd tier past clip around, Mansfield Town person enjoyed different creditable play successful 2025-26, improving and presently sitting 12th having earned 58 points from their 43 games truthful acold with 14 wins and 13 losses connected the board.

The Stags' occurrence has travel successful defence, with lone already-promoted sides Lincoln City and Cardiff City conceding less than the 45 goals they person allowed, and they person laid a beardown assertion for a top-half spot successful the last months of the term, having won four, drawn 5 and lone mislaid 1 of their past 10 league outings.

On the backmost of consecutive draws against Leyton Orient and Luton Town, Nigel Clough's broadside visited fifth-placed Stockport County connected Tuesday and returned to winning ways with an awesome 1-0 triumph astatine Edgeley Park arsenic Tyler Roberts scored the lone extremity astir the hr mark.

Now sitting 12th and conscionable 2 points disconnected 11th spot with 3 games remaining, albeit lone starring 3 sides by the aforesaid margin, Mansfield Town volition present purpose to marque it back-to-back victories astatine the play to determination person to securing a top-12 finish.

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Team News

Huddersfield Town stay incapable to telephone connected Lee Nicholls, Jack Whatmough, Josh Feeney, Lynden Gooch, Cameron Ashia, Ryan Hardie and Bojan Radulovic owed to ongoing injuries.

Given the absences successful attack, 19-year-old George Sebine was fixed the motion to pb the enactment past clip out, but helium volition inactive look contention from Dion Charles and Alfie May.

The preferred guardant volition beryllium supported by Kasumu and Harness, who scored doubly and erstwhile respectively astatine the weekend, portion Jak Alnwick volition proceed to deputise betwixt the sticks successful the lack of first-choice goalkeeper Nicholls.

Mansfield Town proceed to woody with respective wounded issues of their own, with Baily Cargill, Luke Bolton, George Maris and Jordan Bowery sidelined.

They should tract a akin starting XI from the midweek triumph astatine Stockport, but Roberts has a assertion to travel successful from the outset aft scoring the decisive extremity disconnected the bench, portion Adedeji Oshilaja whitethorn miss retired having been forced disconnected successful the archetypal half.

He whitethorn articulation Will Evans, who has netted 8 league goals truthful acold this season, portion further attacking enactment volition travel from the likes of Jon Russell and Lucas Akins.

Huddersfield Town imaginable starting lineup:

Alnwick; Balker, Wallace, Roughan; Sorensen, Humphreys, Ledson, Mumba; Kasumu, Harness; Sebine

Mansfield Town imaginable starting lineup:

Roberts; Knoyle, McLaughlin, Sweeney, Blake-Tracy; Reed, Hendry; Russell, Akins; Evans, Roberts

We say: Huddersfield Town 1-1 Mansfield Town

With some sides heading towards the extremity of the play with small near to combat for different than top-half places, we spot them extending unbeaten streaks with a gully successful Yorkshire.

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