bristol street motors cup – Terrier Spirit

Huddersfield Town beat Manchester United's Under 21 team 4-1 on Tuesday night in the final group game of the Bristol Street Motors Cup. The victory meant that Town leapfrogged the youth team into second place and secured a place in the knockout stages of the cup that will progress from waste of time to incredibly important if we can win a few more games and secure a day out to Wembley. It's hard to work out how good this result and performance were really. Manchester United's youngsters are a very different team to the ones we're typically playing every week, so giving them a convincing beating with a near-full-strength Town team isn't easy to judge. In the game we saw flashes of quality from the opposition that aren't typically on display in League One but equally, they were a bu...

Trying to predict the Huddersfield Town lineup up for a Bristol Street Motors game is a fool’s errand, as it's likely that a good number of players will be rested for a competition that is broadly viewed as a waste of time until you get to the final stages. Having said that, I think Michael Duff may be a bit more conservative with his rotation for this game, after losing to Doncaster in this competition in early September and Tamworth in the FA Cup the other week I doubt he wants another cup defeat. So to save himself the risk of further cup embarrassment, we might see a relatively strong Town lineup tonight. While few people particularly care about our prospects in this cup, for those that do, this game is also effectively a knockout game for Town as a defeat or draw will see the...

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