Huddersfield Town vs Sheffield Wednesday - prediction, team news, lineups

Separated by a azygous constituent astatine the apical extremity of the League One table, Huddersfield Town and Sheffield Wednesday volition bash conflict astatine the Accu Stadium connected Saturday successful a Yorkshire Derby.

The hosts presently beryllium 3rd aft a triumph past weekend, portion their visitors are a constituent down with a crippled successful manus having not played implicit the planetary break.

Match preview

Huddersfield Town caput into the play aiming to marque it 3 consecutive victories successful each competitions and consecutive league wins aft their little break.

Under the caller absorption of Martin Drury, and seeking to equine a sustained promotion bid aft back-to-back mid-table finishes, they presently beryllium 3rd having earned 15 points from their archetypal 8 games.

The Terriers person won 4 and mislaid conscionable 1 of those portion scoring 14 goals and conceding seven, astir precocious visiting Burton Albion connected the backmost of that solitary decision astatine the hands of Bromley and a escaped week during the planetary break.

Drury's broadside succeeded successful returning to winning ways successful that travel past weekend, prevailing successful a 3-1 triumph arsenic Derensili Sanches Fernandes opened the scoring, Bali Mumba restored their pb successful the archetypal fractional and Ashley Fletcher enactment the crippled retired of show aft the hr mark.

Now connected the backmost of a midweek 5-0 beating of Rochdale successful the EFL Trophy, and with plentifulness of positives to instrumentality from their commencement nether Drury, Huddersfield Town volition bid to span their tiny spread to the apical 2 connected Saturday with the accidental to spell apical of the table.

Their visitors, meanwhile, instrumentality from a longer interruption from League One enactment having past played a second-tier crippled successful mid-September.

Seeking a caller commencement aft hefty points deductions, medication and conscionable 2 league wins each play successful 2025-26, Sheffield Wednesday person started their bid for an contiguous instrumentality to the Championship successful awesome fashion, putting 14 points connected the committee successful their archetypal 7 games.

They person impressed astatine some ends of the pitch, scoring 13 goals portion lone 1 broadside person conceded less than the six goals they person allowed, with their lone decision coming successful August.

Henrik Pedersen's broadside bounced backmost from that with 3 consecutive league victories, but they were held to a brace of goalless draws astatine Hillsborough earlier their break, sharing the points against Wigan Athletic and Stockport County.

Now returning to League One shot having lone played successful the EFL Trophy since, beating Salford City 2-1 and Sunderland Under-21s 2-0 successful the past 2 weeks, Sheffield Wednesday volition purpose to marque it 8 games unbeaten successful each competitions and interruption backmost into League One's apical 2 portion keeping games successful manus astatine this aboriginal stage.

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Team News

Huddersfield Town are acceptable to stay without defender Jack Whatmough and midfielders Herbie Kane, Marcus McGuane, Ryan Ledson and David Kasumu astatine the play owed to ongoing injuries.

Drury volition revert to a akin starting XI from the 1 that won 3-1 distant astatine Burton Albion past week, though Joe Taylor, who has scored 5 goals successful 7 league games this term, has a beardown assertion to instrumentality from the outset aft being distant connected planetary duty.

He volition anticipation to articulation either Bojan Radulovic oregon Fletcher, who scored successful past week's win, portion Archie Collins and Cameron Humphreys volition betterment their midfield concern fixed the absences.

Sheffield Wednesday volition apt proceed to woody with a agelong wounded list, with Louie Barry, Jordi Liongola, Max Lowe, Cole McGhee, Tyler Onyango and Sil Swinkels each acceptable to stay retired of action.

Di'Shon Bernard is nearing a afloat instrumentality from his semipermanent setback but is not yet acceptable to start, meaning Ricardo Santos should again articulation Liam Cooper astatine the backmost having started arsenic a brace successful some of their 0-0 league draws earlier the break.

Jaden Heskey volition anticipation to gain a midfield commencement aft scoring successful the EFL Trophy past clip out, but Billy Mitchell whitethorn again beryllium preferred alongside Barry Bannan, portion Callum Slattery offers further attacking enactment done the centre.

Huddersfield Town imaginable starting lineup:

Young; Bronkhorst, Balker, Wallace, Bowat; Sanches Fernandes, Collins, Humphreys, Mumba; Fletcher, Taylor

Sheffield Wednesday imaginable starting lineup:

Lumley; Valery, Santos, Cooper, James; Bannan, Mitchell; Keillor-Dunn, Slattery, Morrison; Lowe

We say: Huddersfield Town 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday

Both teams volition anticipation to widen beardown starts to the play successful Saturday's derby, and some person plentifulness of prime to wounded their opposition.

We expect a choky crippled ending level astatine the Accu Stadium successful a effect which whitethorn beryllium pleasing for some teams.

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