Huddersfield Town vs Swansea City Match Analysis & Prediction
20/04/2024 5:00 pm
With just three matches left to escape the bottom three in the Championship table, Huddersfield Town will play host to Swansea City at the John Smith’s Stadium on Saturday.
The Terriers dropped back into the relegation zone last weekend and sit a point adrift of safety, while the visitors have moved clear of the threat of the drop with successive victories.
In 43 matches across spells under the tutelage of Neil Warnock, Darren Moore, Jon Worthington and current manager Andre Breitenreither, Huddersfield have collected 44 points, with the most recent of their nine wins being crucial one in a true six-pointer at home to Millwall in early April, as Rhys Healy scored the only goal of the game in the fourth minute of injury time.
Aiming to build on that and put daylight between themselves and the drop zone, Huddersfield then travelled to Deepdale to face Preston North End and led going into the break through Josh Koroma, only to suffer an eventual 4-1 defeat, before most recently visiting Bristol City and looking set to take all three points at the weekend.
Koroma again opened the scoring in that game at Ashton Gate, giving his side an 81st-minute lead, and they remained ahead until deep into injury time, only to concede a last-gasp penalty which Nahki Wells converted to force a share of the spoils.
Having now fallen behind Birmingham City, who secured a crucial victory last time out in the relegation dogfight, the Terriers find themselves one point adrift of safety with nine left to fight for and will be desperate to leap back out off the relegation zone with a crucial return to winning ways on home turf on Saturday.
Luke Williams arrived in the Swansea hot seat in South Wales in January, with the Swans sat on 32 points from 26 matches, and he was unable to inspire an initial improvement in the New Year with their tough season continuing, as back-to-back losses to Queens Park Rangers and Middlesbrough at the beginning of this month left them in the mix at the bottom end of the division on 47 points from 41 games.
However, they have since bounced back in style to quickly scale the table, moving up to 14th place with back-to-back wins in their last two attempts as the firstly returned to winning ways with a 3-0 victory over Stoke City on home turf through goals from Liam Cullen, Matt Grimes and Josh Key.
Swansea then hosted already-relegated Rotherham United on Saturday, and after the game remained goalless for 74 minutes, they were ultimately able to prevail and earn a 14th three-point haul of the season as Andy Rinomhota’s own goal made the only difference between the sides.
Having now climbed up to 14th place with three games to play, nine points clear of the bottom three and three behind 13th-placed Sunderland, the Swans will bid to make it three wins on the bounce on Saturday to continue their positive end to the season and climb up the division.
Huddersfield Town vs. Swansea City Head to head
In the 23 previous meetings between these two teams, Huddersfield have claimed eight victories while Swansea have won seven, and they have drawn in eight. Swansea have scored 24 goals and conceded 28 in the process.
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25/09/2021Swansea City1Huddersfield Town0Championship
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15/01/2022Huddersfield Town1Swansea City1Championship
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12/11/2022Huddersfield Town0Swansea City0Championship
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15/04/2023Swansea City1Huddersfield Town0Championship
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02/12/2023Swansea City1Huddersfield Town1Championship
Huddersfield Town Team News
Huddersfield’s key midfielder Jonathan Hogg remains sidelined alongside defenders Radinio Balker, Yuta Nakayama and Josh Ruffels.
Their injury issues were eased recently by the return of centre-back Tom Lees, and he should again start at the heart of a back four alongside Michal Helik, with Matty Pearson shifting out to the right-hand side.
Huddersfield Town's Last 5 Matches
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29/03/2024Huddersfield Town1Coventry City3Championship
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01/04/2024Stoke City1Huddersfield Town1Championship
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06/04/2024Huddersfield Town1Millwall0Championship
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09/04/2024Preston North End4Huddersfield Town1Championship
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13/04/2024Bristol City1Huddersfield Town1Championship
Swansea City Team News
Kyle Naughton, Joe Allen, Harrison Ashby, Josh Ginnelly and Przemyslaw Placehta are all set to continue spells in the Swansea treatment room.
Jamal Lowe will fight to return and lead the line from the start after his substitute appearance in the game against Rotherham, while Jerry Yates is also in contention to displace Liam Cullen and start up top.
Swansea City's Last 5 Matches
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29/03/2024Sheffield Wednesday1Swansea City1Championship
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01/04/2024Swansea City0Queens Park Rangers1Championship
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06/04/2024Middlesbrough2Swansea City0Championship
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10/04/2024Swansea City3Stoke City0Championship
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13/04/2024Swansea City1Rotherham United0Championship
Huddersfield Town vs. Swansea City: Odds and Predictions
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