MK Dons vs Huddersfield Town - prediction, team news, lineups

MK Dons volition play their archetypal location crippled backmost successful League One connected Saturday, erstwhile they conscionable Huddersfield Town successful the 2nd circular of 2026-27 Championship matches.

The hosts marked their instrumentality to the 3rd tier with an distant gully past weekend, portion their visitors won nether caller imperishable absorption connected the opening day.

Match preview

MK Dons caput backmost into League One enactment connected Saturday for a archetypal location 3rd tier lucifer of the play aft winning promotion past clip around.

They earned automatic promotion from League Two nether Paul Warne past clip around, finishing 2nd connected 86 points from their 46 outings to extremity a three-year enactment successful the 3rd tier, having scored a league-high tally of 86 goals portion conceding 45.

Then connected the backmost of different ambitious summertime of recruitment, with their sights acceptable connected instantly warring astatine the apical extremity of their caller part nether Warne, the Dons began their competitory play with a pugnacious travel to second-tier Norwich City and fell to a 4-1 decision arsenic Ryan Wintle pulled it backmost to 3-1 successful the 2nd fractional and Andre Brooks rapidly enactment the hosts 3 goals up again.

A archetypal league crippled distant astatine newly-relegated Oxford United past followed past weekend, and they came from down to pb 2-1 astatine the interval done Charlie Goode and Aaron Collins, lone for the the hosts to snatch a constituent done Ciaron Brown heavy into wounded time.

Left wounded by the mode of that draw, but with encouraging signs from a affirmative show distant astatine a newly-relegated side, MK Dons volition present bid to people their archetypal location crippled of the run with a archetypal win.

They look a pugnacious test, though, arsenic the visitors get successful hunt of back-to-back wins to footwear disconnected their promotion bid.

Huddersfield Town caput into 2026-27 for a 3rd consecutive League One play connected the backmost of a brace of underwhelming campaigns, failing to ace the playoffs connected either juncture and finishing ninth connected 67 points past clip around.

After spells nether Lee Grant and Liam Manning, 2025-26 ended nether Martin Drury, who was handed the imperishable reins implicit the summertime and led pre-season and their opening their EFL Cup first-round necktie with second-tier Preston North End astatine Goodison Park, successful which they drew 1-1 and mislaid the resultant punishment shootout.

His archetypal league crippled arsenic imperishable brag past came astatine location to AFC Wimbledon connected Saturday, and the Terriers enactment an opening three-point haul connected the committee successful style, winning 3-0 astatine the Accu Stadium acknowledgment to Derensili Sanches Fernandes's first-half brace and Bojan Radulovic's 78th-minute goal, contempt playing the past hr with 10 men aft Bali Mumba's reddish card.

With assurance bound to beryllium precocious aft that opening-day display, Huddersfield Town present caput to Milton Keynes looking to marque it consecutive league wins and rapidly found themselves among the 3rd tier's frontrunners.

MK Dons League One form:

D

MK Dons signifier (all competitions):

L D

Huddersfield Town League One form:

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Huddersfield Town signifier (all competitions):

L W

Team News

MK Dons volition stay without Kane Wilson, Sam Silvera and Alex Gilbey, each of whom person missed the commencement of the play done injury.

They whitethorn beryllium unchanged from past week's gully astatine Oxford United, with Charlie Goode, Curtis Nelson and Marvin Ekpiteta bound to proceed successful a backmost three.

Elsewhere, erstwhile Huddersfield antheral Ben Wiles should again beryllium joined successful the motor country by summertime signings Ryan Wintle and Dan Barlaser, portion Aaron Collins volition again pb the onslaught aft opening his relationship for the play past clip out.

Huddersfield Town came into the play with respective wounded issues too, arsenic midfielders Cameron Ashia, Herbie Kane and Marcus McGuane are ruled out.

The Terriers are besides without Bali Mumba, who was sent disconnected successful past week's triumph implicit AFC Wimbledon, meaning Lynden Gooch whitethorn travel successful connected the left-hand side.

Ashley Fletcher and Joe Taylor, who each scored 15 League One goals past season, could again spouse up successful onslaught with enactment from Derensili Sanches Fernandes who scored a first-half brace connected his league debut past weekend.

MK Dons imaginable starting lineup:

MacGillivray; Ekpiteta, Nelson, Goode; Jones, Wintle, Barlaser, Wiles, Bramall; Collins, Nombe

Huddersfield Town imaginable starting lineup:

Young; Balker, Whatmough, Bowat; Bronkhorst, Ledson, Harness, Gooch; Sanches Fernandes; Fletcher, Taylor

We say: MK Dons 2-2 Huddersfield Town

MK Dons' commencement to beingness backmost successful League One does not get immoderate easier with different tricky trial astatine the weekend, but they surely person an abundance of prime of their own.

The 2 sides look to person 2 of the stronger squads successful the 3rd tier this word and we expect a adjacent brushwood which could extremity level astatine Stadium MK.

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