The Championship clash at The John Smith's Stadium on Saturday sees home side Huddersfield welcome Birmingham City.
Full predictions, pre-match stats and user poll for Huddersfield Town v Birmingham City are shown on this page (inc. the best betting odds).
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Form Guide
Huddersfield Town
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Huddersfield will be hoping to bounce back here after a 0-4 Championship losing effort in their last game against Swansea City.
In that game, Huddersfield Town had 32% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 0 on target. Swansea City had 19 shots at goal with 7 on target. Jamal Lowe (73'), Ronald (85'), Jerry Yates (91') and Liam Walsh (93') scored for Swansea City.
It’s not been often in recent games where Huddersfield Town haven’t conceded. The facts show that Huddersfield Town have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 13 goals in the process. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to be sustained into this match, though.
Birmingham City
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Last time out, Birmingham City drew 0-0 in the Championship tie with Rotherham United.
In that match, Birmingham City managed 53% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. On the other side, Rotherham United got 10 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.
Gary Rowett's Birmingham City have had reason to celebrate scoring 6 times throughout their previous 6 matches. The total of goals that have been scored against them during those same matches comes to 5.
Their previous form shows that Birmingham City:
- are winless against Huddersfield Town when having played them away from home in the previous 6 matches in the league. They really have not been travelling well at all.
- have not won away from home in their last 8 league games. Who knows how long it might last, too.
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Head to head
Checking out their prior head to head meetings dating back to 02/03/2021, there has been little between the sides with Huddersfield winning 2 of those games, Birmingham City 2 and 2 being draws after 90 minutes of play.
15 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 7 from The Terriers and 8 netted by The Blues. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.5.
The previous league game featuring these clubs was Championship match day 10 on 03/10/2023 and the score finished Birmingham City 4-1 Huddersfield Town.
That time, Birmingham City had 59% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The scorers were Siriki Dembélé (3', 64'), Koji Miyoshi (23') and Jordan James (95').
Huddersfield Town had 17 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Michał Helik (92') was the scorer.
The referee was Sam Allison.
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Team News: Huddersfield
Ollie Turton (Meniscus injury) and Josh Ruffels (Groin injury) are not available for Huddersfield boss André Breitenreiter.
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Team News: Birmingham City
Owing to an otherwise healthy group, there’s just the sole fitness issue for the Birmingham City manager Gary Rowett to be concerned with. Alfie Chang (Knee injury) won’t be playing here.
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Prediction
Looking at these two teams, we feel that Birmingham City will surely be able to breach the defence of this Huddersfield Town team, but it probably won’t quite be as many as the goals that they could concede.
We are anticipating both teams to score in a 2-1 win for Huddersfield Town at the end of this one. Should be a good one.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Andre Moura,
11:06 24/04/2024
🏟️ Team Focus:
Huddersfield
Formed: 1908
Stadium: The John Smith's Stadium (24,121)
Captain: Jonathan Hogg
Chairman: Kevin Nagle
Manager: André Breitenreiter
Competitions: Championship position 23
🔑 Key Player: Delano Burgzorg
Mostly played in the Left Wing position, Delano Burgzorg was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. After making a first senior appearance for De Graafschap in the 2017 - 2018 season, the talented Forward has netted 7 league goals in this Championship 2023 - 2024 season to date in a total of 33 appearances.