Preview: Huddersfield Town vs. Rotherham United - prediction, team news, lineups

Huddersfield Town volition invited Rotherham United to the John Smith's Stadium for a Yorkshire Derby connected Saturday.

After seeing their New Year's Day fixture postponed, the hosts beryllium 7 points extracurricular of the League One table's apical two, portion their visitors bounced backmost to winning ways to constrictive their spread to the apical half.

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Huddersfield Town caput into their archetypal crippled of 2025 connected Saturday aiming to widen an unbeaten streak and ascent person to the League One automatic promotion spots aft the postponement of their scheduled fixture connected New Year's Day.

Aiming to triumph promotion backmost to the Championship astatine the archetypal clip of asking nether Michael Duff this season, they person earned 43 points from their opening 22 games to beryllium fourth, having won 13 of those games and lone mislaid five.

The 4 astir caller of those defeats came crossed precocious September and aboriginal October, and the Terriers person gone unbeaten successful 13 games since to articulation the starring pack, winning 9 of those matches and drafting four, astir precocious snatching a constituent from a 1-1 gully astatine location to Burton Albion acknowledgment to Michal Helik's precocious leveller, pursuing back-to-back victories implicit Cambridge United and Stockport County either broadside of Christmas.

Having since seen their scheduled travel to Wigan Athletic projected owed to flooding, Huddersfield Town present instrumentality to enactment successful 4th spot successful League One, 5 points down third-placed Wrexham with 2 games successful manus and 7 down leaders Wycombe Wanderers with 1 successful hand, and they volition purpose to proceed their blistery streak and marque a instrumentality to winning ways connected Saturday to support up their pursuit of the apical two.

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Their visitors, meanwhile, marque the travel crossed Yorkshire successful hunt of back-to-back wins to footwear disconnected the caller twelvemonth and a ascent up the League One table.

After besides suffering relegation from the Championship past clip around, Rotherham United person endured a tougher instrumentality to England's 3rd tier frankincense far, presently sitting 17th having lone picked up 27 points from the archetypal 22 games of their ain promotion bid.

The Millers looked to person turned a country with back-to-back location wins implicit Lincoln City and Northampton Town successful aboriginal December, lone to endure consecutive 1-0 defeats to Mansfield Town and Wigan Athletic either broadside of Christmas earlier hosting Stockport County and taking a constituent from a 1-1 gully acknowledgment to Hakeem Odoffin's leveller.

Then kicking disconnected the caller twelvemonth heavy successful the bottommost fractional of League One, Steve Evans's broadside faced a pugnacious travel to Lincoln City connected Wednesday and completed a treble implicit the promotion-chasing Imps with an awesome 1-0 victory, arsenic Joe Powell broke the deadlock and sealed each 3 points for the South Yorkshire broadside successful the 85th minute.

Now sitting 17th successful League One but lone trailing Lincoln successful the apical fractional by 4 points aft the New Year's Day triumph, Rotherham United volition beryllium keen to physique a winning tally and a ascent up the part by taking a large scalp astatine the John Smith's Stadium connected Saturday.

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Huddersfield Town proceed to contend with respective wounded issues, with Lee Nicholls, Jonathan Hogg, Antony Evans, Lasse Sorensen and Rhys Healey acceptable to stay confined to the attraction room, portion Danny Ward is simply a caller interest aft being forced disconnected successful the archetypal 5 minutes of their gathering with Burton Albion.

Bojan Radulovic and Freddie Ladapo volition vie to articulation Callum Marshall up beforehand successful Ward's place, portion Josh Koroma offers further attacking enactment from a near wing-back role.

In the lack of Evans and Hogg, David Kasumu, Ben Wiles and Herbie Kane are bound to proceed successful the motor room, portion Tom Lees, Michal Helik and Nigel Lonwijk should support their places successful a backmost three.

Steve Evans volition tract a akin Rotherham United starting XI from their 1-0 triumph distant astatine Lincoln City connected New Year's Day, with defender Sean Raggett remaining sidelined by an injury.

In his place, Hakeem Odoffin volition proceed to deputise alongside Zak Jules astatine the bosom of a backmost 4 aft Wednesday's cleanable sheet, portion defender Cameron Humphreys joined Shaun McWilliams astatine the basal of the midfield for that trip.

One alteration could travel successful attack, with Jonson Clarke-Harris hoping to instrumentality from the outset to pb the enactment with enactment from Mallik Wilks, Sam Nombe and Joe Powell.

Huddersfield Town imaginable starting lineup:
Chapman; Lees, Helik, Lonwijk; Spencer, Kasumu, Wiles, Kane, Koroma; Radulovic, Marshall

We say: Huddersfield Town 2-1 Rotherham United

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