Can Huddersfield Town defeat Blackpool in The John Smith's Stadium clash?

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Sun 26.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The John Smith's Stadium (24500 seats)

Huddersfield Town are up for a new challenge after their 3-2 against Bristol City previously. Blackpool are coming to town!

Insights:
  • Blackpool have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

This could be an engrossing match with lots of fun and bustle as both contenders are well recovered since they last played a game. Let's go!

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Huddersfield Town form and stats

Huddersfield Town have collected 20 points from their Championship home games so far after 6-2-3.

A strong away win for Huddersfield against Bristol City the last match, as Ward, Holmes and Sinani were on target. Defender Lees got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.61/10. Lees won 13 of 20 duels.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Coventry City.

The manager Corberán Vallet will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Nottingham Forest in only four days.

Huddersfield are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 15 goals in 11 games. Huddersfield have conceded 12 in these home matches.

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Blackpool form and stats

The visitors are W3-D4-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Championship. Blackpool seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Blackpool are travelling after their nice 3-1 home win in the Championship against Peterborough United (placed 22nd). Anderson got a match rating of 8.81 in that game, top player of the team. Anderson scored one goal, served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 4 of 5 times.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Derby County wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Middlesbrough in just three days.

The visiting Blackpool have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 13 goals from 11 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Blackpool have conceded 14 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Blackpool - Huddersfield 0-3 was the score in these squads' last H2H match, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Huddersfield three wins, three draws and Blackpool four victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

HuddersfieldD. Ward
D. Ward
6 goals
BlackpoolJ. Yates
J. Yates
6 goals
BlackpoolS. Lavery
S. Lavery
5 goals

Huddersfield Town missing players

Blackpool missing players

Huddersfield Town Blackpool
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
23 11 3 Played P 4 11 23
9 6 2 Won W 2 3 8
6 2 0 Drew D 1 4 6
8 3 1 Lost L 1 4 9
28 15 3 Scored S 5 13 23
27 12 2 Conceded C 4 14 27
91% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 96%
70% 64% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 73% 65%
43% 36% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 45% 39%
17% 27% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 18% 13%
13% 18% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 4%
48% 36% 33% BTTS BTTS 75% 73% 48%
35% 55% 67% Clean Sheets C S 25% 9% 22%
26% 18% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 18% 35%
 
4.2 4.5 5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 3.5 4
4.4 4.4 2.7 Corners against (avg) C A 6.8 5 5.1
1.9 1.9 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.8 1.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
10.6 10.5 11.3 Shots (avg) S ( 8 9.1 10.1
3.5 3.6 3.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2.9 3.1
35% 38% 30% Goal Efficiency G E 62% 41% 32%
 
12.6 11.4 7.3 Shots against (avg) S A 11.8 11.2 12.2
4.4 4.3 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 3.5 3.7
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Blackpool have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Blackpool haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Fulham 22 13 6 3 51 18 11 7 3 1 24 7 11 6 3 2 27 11 33 45
2 AFC Bournemouth 23 12 7 4 37 20 11 6 3 2 23 13 12 6 4 2 14 7 17 43
3 Blackburn Rovers 23 12 6 5 41 27 12 8 2 2 28 16 11 4 4 3 13 11 14 42
4 West Bromwich Albion 23 11 8 4 30 17 11 7 4 0 17 5 12 4 4 4 13 12 13 41
5 Queens Park Rangers 21 10 5 6 33 27 11 6 3 2 16 10 10 4 2 4 17 17 6 35
6 Stoke City 22 10 5 7 26 21 11 6 3 2 15 9 11 4 2 5 11 12 5 35
7 Nottingham Forest 23 9 7 7 32 25 12 4 3 5 14 16 11 5 4 2 18 9 7 34
8 Coventry City 22 9 7 6 29 26 11 7 2 2 20 10 11 2 5 4 9 16 3 34
9 Middlesbrough 23 9 6 8 25 23 12 6 2 4 16 12 11 3 4 4 9 11 2 33
10 Huddersfield Town 23 9 6 8 28 27 11 6 2 3 15 12 12 3 4 5 13 15 1 33
11 Millwall 22 7 9 6 24 24 11 5 4 2 14 11 11 2 5 4 10 13 0 30
12 Blackpool 23 8 6 9 23 27 12 5 2 5 10 13 11 3 4 4 13 14 -4 30
13 Luton Town 22 7 8 7 31 27 11 4 4 3 17 13 11 3 4 4 14 14 4 29
14 Sheffield United 21 8 5 8 28 28 10 4 2 4 15 11 11 4 3 4 13 17 0 29
15 Preston North End 22 7 7 8 24 28 11 5 4 2 15 12 11 2 3 6 9 16 -4 28
16 Swansea City 22 7 6 9 26 31 11 4 4 3 14 12 11 3 2 6 12 19 -5 27
17 Birmingham City 23 7 6 10 22 30 11 4 3 4 12 14 12 3 3 6 10 16 -8 27
18 Bristol City 23 7 6 10 26 35 12 3 5 4 11 13 11 4 1 6 15 22 -9 27
19 Hull City 23 6 5 12 20 28 11 3 3 5 11 14 12 3 2 7 9 14 -8 23
20 Cardiff City 22 6 4 12 25 39 11 2 1 8 9 18 11 4 3 4 16 21 -14 22
21 Reading 22 8 3 11 27 34 11 4 3 4 16 16 11 4 0 7 11 18 -7 21
22 Peterborough United 23 5 4 14 20 44 11 4 4 3 14 11 12 1 0 11 6 33 -24 19
23 Barnsley 23 2 8 13 15 34 12 2 4 6 8 15 11 0 4 7 7 19 -19 14
24 Derby County 22 5 10 7 18 21 11 4 5 2 13 11 11 1 5 5 5 10 -3 4

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The English Football League Championship (usually shortened to the Championship) is the second highest division in the English football league system. 24 teams play 46 fixtures from August to May, meeting each other twice. The Championship is the wealthiest second-level division in the world.