The John Smith's Stadium: Huddersfield Town vs Luton Town Championship preview

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Sat 07.November
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The John Smith's Stadium (24500 seats)

Huddersfield Town and Luton Town have both delivered a "par" performance so far, to use a golfing expression. Both hold mid-table positions in the Championship.

It's no vacation for neither Huddersfield nor Luton Town as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Huddersfield Town form and stats

Huddersfield Town have collected 6 points from their Championship home games so far after 2-0-3. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Huddersfield, their manager C. Corberán Vallet and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.

The Huddersfield crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Bristol City here at The John Smith's Stadium in a Championship match. Before that match, a win away at Millwall.

This is expected to be a close game, with Huddersfield Town perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Huddersfield Town as a small favourite), we find twelve games. Huddersfield Town has won five of these, drawn two and lost five.

Huddersfield Town have scored 4 league goals here from 5 matches, not a lot. On the other hand, Huddersfield have conceded 5 goals.

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Luton Town form and stats

3 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Luton Town playing as the away team in the Championship this season. Luton has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

Two travels in a row for Luton, whose manager N. Jones could celebrate last time after the Championship win against Rotherham United. The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-3 defeat against Brentford.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found five similar matches played by Luton Town in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Luton Town, two draws and zero defeats.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Luton as they have only managed to score 3 times from 5 away games in the league. It's not easy to score on Luton as they have only conceded 3 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last four matches): Huddersfield two wins, zero draws and Luton Town two victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Huddersfield TownJ. Koroma
J. Koroma
3 goals
HuddersfieldF. Campbell
F. Campbell
2 goals
Luton TownP. Ruddock Mpanzu
P. Ruddock Mpanzu
2 goals

Huddersfield Town missing players

Luton Town missing players

Huddersfield Town Luton Town
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 0 5 10
4 2 0 Won W 0 3 5
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
5 3 1 Lost L 0 2 4
11 4 1 Scored S 0 3 8
12 5 2 Conceded C 0 3 10
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
70% 40% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 20% 60%
60% 40% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 20%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 40% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 20%
30% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 60% 40%
20% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 40% 40%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.6 2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.6 1.7
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
113 59 15 Total Shots T S 0 35 86
31 14 3 Shots on Target S O 0 3 18
35% 29% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 100% 44%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Huddersfield Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Luton Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Reading 10 7 1 2 17 9 5 4 0 1 7 3 5 3 1 1 10 6 8 22
2 Swansea City 10 5 4 1 13 6 5 3 1 1 7 3 5 2 3 0 6 3 7 19
3 Norwich City 10 5 3 2 12 8 5 2 2 1 5 4 5 3 1 1 7 4 4 18
4 Watford 10 5 3 2 11 7 5 4 1 0 9 4 5 1 2 2 2 3 4 18
5 AFC Bournemouth 10 4 5 1 12 8 5 3 2 0 6 3 5 1 3 1 6 5 4 17
6 Middlesbrough 10 4 5 1 9 5 5 3 2 0 6 2 5 1 3 1 3 3 4 17
7 Bristol City 10 5 2 3 14 11 5 2 1 2 6 6 5 3 1 1 8 5 3 17
8 Millwall 10 4 4 2 10 8 5 1 3 1 4 5 5 3 1 1 6 3 2 16
9 Luton Town 10 5 1 4 8 10 5 2 1 2 5 7 5 3 0 2 3 3 -2 16
10 Brentford 10 4 3 3 17 12 5 2 2 1 9 6 5 2 1 2 8 6 5 15
11 Stoke City 10 4 3 3 12 12 5 2 2 1 7 7 5 2 1 2 5 5 0 15
12 Preston North End 10 4 1 5 14 12 5 0 0 5 1 7 5 4 1 0 13 5 2 13
13 Cardiff City 10 3 4 3 12 10 5 1 2 2 6 6 5 2 2 1 6 4 2 13
14 Birmingham City 10 3 4 3 8 8 5 2 1 2 5 5 5 1 3 1 3 3 0 13
15 Huddersfield Town 10 4 1 5 11 12 5 2 0 3 4 5 5 2 1 2 7 7 -1 13
16 Queens Park Rangers 10 3 4 3 10 12 5 2 2 1 6 5 5 1 2 2 4 7 -2 13
17 Blackburn Rovers 10 3 2 5 18 13 5 1 2 2 7 5 5 2 0 3 11 8 5 11
18 Barnsley 10 2 4 4 10 13 5 2 2 1 6 3 5 0 2 3 4 10 -3 10
19 Rotherham United 10 2 3 5 8 11 5 1 1 3 5 5 5 1 2 2 3 6 -3 9
20 Nottingham Forest 10 2 3 5 7 12 5 1 2 2 5 7 5 1 1 3 2 5 -5 9
21 Coventry City 10 2 2 6 10 20 5 2 1 2 8 12 5 0 1 4 2 8 -10 8
22 Wycombe Wanderers 10 2 1 7 6 17 5 1 1 3 3 6 5 1 0 4 3 11 -11 7
23 Derby County 10 1 3 6 5 14 5 0 1 4 1 9 5 1 2 2 4 5 -9 6
24 Sheffield Wednesday 10 3 2 5 6 10 5 1 2 2 3 4 5 2 0 3 3 6 -4 -1

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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.