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Aug202017 by Terrier Spirit3 Comments

Huddersfield Town v Newcastle – Player ratings

Matches, Opinion

Huddersfield Town played their first ever Premier League home game against Newcastle United and came out on top thanks to an Aaron Mooy strike. Town have won two out of two in the Premier League and find themselves second in the table. It was another excellent performance from Town and the scores for the players reflect another good day's work for the squad. Nobody had a bad performance and a few were exceptional. Let's hope Town can keep up this level of quality for as long as possible. Lössl - 8 out of 10 The game would have been completely different if Lössl didn't make the brilliant, full-strength save from Matt Ritchie’s strike. His distribution was very good, again. I'm delighted that a deal is in place to make his loan move permanent at the end of the season if we want to. He ...

Aug182017 by Terrier Spirit3 Comments

PREVIEW – Huddersfield Town v Newcastle United

Matches

Life in the Premier League for Huddersfield Town got off to an amazing start last weekend, with a 3-0 victory over Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park. Town’s next opponents had more of a struggle in their return to the Premier League, as Newcastle United were beaten 2-0 by Spurs. The result wasn’t the only bad news for Newcastle fans, as Jonjo Shelvey was sent off and Dummett and LeJeune both left the pitch injured. This means that three key players for Newcastle will be unavailable for their trip to the John Smith’s Stadium this Sunday. It’s Huddersfield Town’s first-ever Premier League home game, so it’ll be a momentous occasion regardless of the result. It’s also the first of many games that Town will be playing on live TV, so an international audience will be watching the game. Hudde...

Aug132017 by Terrier Spirit1 Comment

5 talking points from the Crystal Palace v Huddersfield Town game

Matches

Before the Palace game kicked off, nobody really knew what to expect in Huddersfield Town's first game back in the top-flight for over 40 years. Few expected a 3-0 victory for the Terriers. Here are a few thoughts about this incredible game. 1. Maybe the Premier League isn't ready for us I got a bit sick of hearing ill-informed pundits talk about how we aren't prepared for the Premier League. They grumble that we've not signed experienced Premier League players and write us off because of our negative goal difference last season. The expectation was that we were unprepared and would be the league's whipping boys I think Palace weren't prepared for us. We didn't give them chance settle and made the most of the chances we created. On the strength of this performance, I think a few Premi...

Aug132017 by Terrier Spirit1 Comment

Crystal Palace 0 – 3 Huddersfield Town – Player ratings

Matches

It was an incredible Town performance against Palace, so the player ratings are high across the board. I genuinely don't think a single player had a bad game. If we can keep on performing with every player at their peak then we could be in for a good season. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'opcylhn3RCJV0SwqIdrqag',sig:'Z_xmlFy-uzy8QYL9emyYERaGMbt0LKYWd1mK4oXei7o=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'830716714',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })}); Lössl 8 out of 10 Made an incredible reflex save from a corner that looked a certain goal. Distribution was first class. Came off his line well apart from one unconvincing flap. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).pu...

Aug132017 by Terrier Spirit1 Comment

MATCH REPORT – Crystal Palace 0 -3 Huddersfield Town

Matches

Huddersfield Town won away at Crystal Palace. We won our first Premier League game. We won 3-0. I still can't believe it. I wasn't sure if I'd ever see Town play in the Premier League in my lifetime, so to see us not only play but win convincingly was amazing. Pundits and bookies were not ready for this. We're supposed to be the whipping boys. Our lack of Premier League experience should mean we get walloped by established teams like Palace. David Wagner and his players haven't read the script though, they decided to do things differently. It was a great Huddersfield Town performance and summed up the kind of football we've aimed to play during the Wagner era. We weren't always pretty and we rode our luck at times, but we played at a high-tempo, took risks and stopped the opposition from...

Aug112017 by Terrier Spirit2 Comments

PREVIEW – Crystal Palace v Huddersfield Town

Matches

It's been a long wait over the summer, but Huddersfield Town's return to the top flight of English football is finally almost here. We travel down to Crystal Palace for our first ever match in the Premier League and I can't wait for this game. Crystal Palace v Huddersfield Town - Match details Kickoff: 3pm, Saturday 12 August Stadium: Selhurst Park Tickets: The match is sold out in both home and away ends, so if you've not got one you're stuck. This was the first match to test out the new away ticket priority system. It seemed to work as it should, the allocation sold out just after going on sale to Priority 4 fans. I was one of the lucky few to get a ticket in that final band of people, so maybe my opinion of the system is biased. Travel info: There's some information on getting to...

Aug92017 by Terrier Spirit2 Comments

Huddersfield Town’s transfer business: an intelligent gamble

Opinion, Transfers

Huddersfield Town’s summer transfer dealings came thick and fast in early July, with 9 players either bought or borrowed in the space a few weeks. It's 10 transfers if you include Kachunga, but the intention to make his loan permanent was decided long before July so I don't think he counts A flurry of early transfer activity made us one of the big spenders in the Premier League and has some rival fans and media pundits suggesting we were panic buying. Less charitable pundits likened us to contestants on Dale Winton’s Supermarket Sweep, with David Wagner cramming every available player into his trolley as he raced around the aisles. Time will tell whether this was a fair assessment but I feel certain it’s wrong. As does sports writer Raj Bains: https://twitter.com/BainsXIII/status/88262...

Aug72017 by Terrier Spirit2 Comments

The best podcasts about Huddersfield Town

Social media

Podcasts are a great way to stay up to date on the things that you're interested in. Luckily there are now quite a few podcasts out there that cover Huddersfield Town. Read on to find out more about them and give them a listen. Regular Huddersfield Town podcasts Here are three regular podcasts that cover Huddersfield Town in one way or another. Ooh to be ah… Raj Bains hosts this new podcast about Town on behalf of The Examiner. It’s going to be released twice a week and despite a marathon opening episode, they’re promising around 40 minutes to an hour of Town related discussion. It’s well produced, follows a coherent structure and the first few episodes have had some interesting insights into Town. I might not agree with every point made but the points were intelligently constructed...

Aug12017 by Terrier Spirit1 Comment

SQUAD REPORT: Do Huddersfield Town have 2 players for every position?

Opinion

Since the flurry of transfer activity in early July, Huddersfield Town have more than enough players to name in their 25-man squad for their first year back in the top-flight. However, are they all Premier League standard players? In this article, we'll look at each position in David Wagner's 4-2-3-1 formation to see if there are two players for each position on the pitch that are good enough to compete in the Premier League. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'RbGpwZlPTaJ5GWBrUGth1Q',sig:'L_k7J64HVlzk8a2Egmf1tBVf9ptlfe8oEORG9nwb1_I=',w:'594px',h:'421px',items:'821847968',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })}); Goalkeeper With Danny Ward going back to Liverpool we were always going to need to str...

Jul232017 by Terrier Spirit3 Comments

MATCH REPORT: Barnsley 0 – 1 Huddersfield Town – pre-season friendly

Matches

Huddersfield Town won a relatively entertaining friendly against Barnsley by a single Steve Mounié goal, scored in the final minute. It was a deserved victory over a Barnsley team that worked hard and forced Town to up their game. Town victorious after testing first half It was a fairly slow start to the game and Barnsley pressed well, forcing quite a few sloppy mistakes from Town in possession. If this was a competitive game it might have been a concern that we misplaced so many passes in the first half but this kind of rustiness is to be expected in pre-season friendlies. Town struggled to build meaningful chances in the first half and the best chance of the half came from a cross-come-shot from Philip Billing which went wide of the post. Barnsley nearly scored themselves from a hea...