Open game expected at The Den: Millwall vs Huddersfield Town preview

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Wed 22.July
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: The Den (20146 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Millwall are in the 9th position while the guesting Huddersfield Town worry at 18th.

There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a Championship match only four days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Queens Park Rangers.

Millwall can neither be promoted or relegated from Championship. Huddersfield is no longer fighting for a cause; they can neither go up or down this season.

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Millwall form and stats

Overall Championship stats at home this season for Millwall are 9-8-5 (wins-draw-losses).

The fans are hoping that Millwall will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 3-4 away loss in the Championship game against Queens Park Rangers (placed 14th). Ahead of that match, Millwall won a home game hosting Blackburn Rovers (1-0).

As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today? Millwall's goalkeeper Bartosz Białkowski was extremely busy against Queens Park Rangers, saving the team from a uglier defeat with a stunning seven saves.

This is expected to be a close game, with Millwall perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Millwall as a small favourite), we find 13 games. Millwall has won three of these, drawn six and lost four.

The Millwall fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 29 in 22 matches. On the other hand, Millwall have conceded 24 goals.

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Huddersfield Town form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Huddersfield Town so far with only 21 points returning home. The records show 5-6-11 (win-draw-lose). Two points from the last two away games for Huddersfield, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.

The supporters enjoyed Huddersfield Town's previous game versus West Bromwich Albion (placed 2nd), a Championship 2-1 win played at home. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Sheffield Wednesday that ended 0-0.

World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager D. Cowley when Emile Smith Rowe scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 72nd minute.

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

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Huddersfield have scored 25 goals in 22 league games away. Huddersfield struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 36 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Millwall and Huddersfield Town have met before this season: Huddersfield Town - Millwall 1-1. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: two wins for Millwall, two draws and six wins for Huddersfield Town. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games.

Top Goalscorers

Huddersfield TownK. Ahearne-Grant
K. Ahearne-Grant
18 goals
MillwallM. Smith
M. Smith
13 goals
MillwallJ. Wallace
J. Wallace
10 goals

Millwall missing players

Huddersfield Town missing players

Millwall Huddersfield Town
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
45 22 7 Played P 7 22 45
16 9 3 Won W 0 5 13
17 8 2 Drew D 6 6 12
12 5 2 Lost L 1 11 20
53 29 9 Scored S 7 25 51
50 24 7 Conceded C 10 36 66
91% 95% 86% Over 0.5 O 0.5 71% 91% 89%
69% 77% 86% Over 1.5 O 1.5 71% 73% 80%
36% 41% 43% Over 2.5 O 2.5 29% 55% 51%
20% 23% 14% Over 3.5 O 3.5 29% 32% 20%
9% 5% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 14% 14% 9%
53% 59% 57% BTTS BTTS 71% 64% 56%
36% 32% 29% Clean Sheets C S 29% 27% 27%
20% 14% 29% Failed to Score F T 29% 18% 29%
 
6 7.2 8.6 Corners for (avg) C F 3.4 4.4 4.8
4.6 3.6 2.6 Corners against (avg) C A 4.7 5 4.6
1.5 1.5 1.1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2 1.9
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
491 255 82 Total Shots T S 67 197 458
160 88 29 Shots on Target S O 23 71 162
33% 33% 31% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 35% 31%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 HJK 1 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 4 3
2 KuPS 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 3
3 Inter Turku 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
4 Ilves 1 1 0 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
5 SJK 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
6 Haka 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
7 Honka 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
8 Mariehamn 1 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 4 -1 0
9 TPS 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
10 RoPS 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0
11 HIFK 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0
12 Lahti 1 0 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -4 0

Read more about Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga is the premier division in Finnish football. It has its name from the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, the main sponsor. Seasons run from April to October in a league of twelve teams. These play two fixtures against each other in the regular season. After that the league table splits in two. The top teams play a championship round and the bottom half play a relegation round.