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Jul262018 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

Huddersfield Town 3-1 Lyon – First half player ratings

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Huddersfield Town beat Lyon 3-1 in an encouraging performance at the John Smith’s Stadium. Ben Hamer was the only player to play for all 90 minutes, so I’ve decided to break the player ratings articles into two. This one looks at the players that featured in the first half. Ben Hamer - 8 out of 10 Looked very good in the first half and kept Town in the game with a couple of excellent saves. Came off his line well when Lyon had broken through our defensive line. His distribution looked good to me too, trying to pick out players rather than just launch it down the field. Florent Hadergjonaj - 7 out of 10 Was busy up and down the right flank, and linked up well with Diakhaby a couple of times. His crossing was mixed, a couple of loose ones but at least two excellent crosses nearly lead to...

Jul252018 by Terrier Spirit1 Comment

5 things Town fans can find out in tonight’s game against Lyon

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Huddersfield Town play their only home friendly of this preseason tonight, when they play Olympique Lyonnais at the John Smith’s Stadium. It’s a chance to watch Town take on Champions League quality opposition, which should be an interesting test, but means it may be tricky for Town to turn around the poor form we’ve experienced this preseason. Here are a few questions fans can hope to have answered after today’s game. Are we going to see our best XI start the game? The friendlies in the early stages of preseason are mostly aimed at raising fitness levels and the team selections are based around getting all the squad’s players to get a chance to play. It’s a bit like the way an under-8s football team is picked. Now the majority of the squad have played 90 minutes it may be the focu...

Jul112018 by Terrier Spirit3 Comments

Bury 0-4 Huddersfield Town – Analysis of all Town’s goals

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Town travelled to Bury for their opening preseason game last night. Here’s a breakdown of all the goals Town scored, with tweets from the club showing clips of each goal. For some reason the quality of the clips in the tweets isn’t great for me. If you’d like to see the highlights in better quality, I’d suggest checking out the Sky Sports highlights of Huddersfield Town’s 4-0 victory. Alex Pritchard opens the scoring https://twitter.com/htafcdotcom/status/1016762173350141953 Philip Billing makes a driving run through central midfield, lays the ball off to Pritchard in the left channel and he drills the ball in from an acute angle. Billing did well to get forward and find an attacking player in a dangerous position, but there wasn’t nearly enough pressure on the ball from Bury. Prit...

Jul102018 by Terrier Spirit1 Comment

5 things to watch out for in Town’s friendly with Bury

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Town are set to face their first friendly game of their preseason tonight against Bury. It’s the second preseason in a row we’ve visited Bury in a friendly, with Town winning 3-1 when we played them last July. It feels strange to be playing friendlies while England are still involved in a World Cup. Stranger still, the game will be taking place at the same time as France take on Belgium in their other World Cup semi-final. Here are a few things to watch out for in today's game... Will our new signings make their first appearance? One of the biggest draws of preseason friendlies is the chance to see new arrivals pull on a Town shirt for the first time. It’s likely anyone at the game will get to see Ben Hamer between the sticks at some stage and Juninho Bacuna is also likely to g...

Jul232017 by Terrier Spirit3 Comments

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

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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...

Jul212017 by Terrier Spirit5 Comments

MATCH PREVIEW: Barnsley v Huddersfield Town pre-season friendly

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Huddersfield Town make the trip to South Yorkshire to play Barnsley for their fourth pre-season friendly. Now we’re getting slightly further into the pre-season schedule it’s likely a few players will make it through 90 minutes for this game and the tempo might be getting closer to competitive football. The relatively short journey to Barnsley and the number of fans on lower priorities worrying they’ll not get to see many away games this season makes me think there will be a strong Huddersfield Town following at Oakwell on Saturday. Barnsley v Huddersfield Town - Match details Kick-off: 4pm - The tickets say 3pm because the time was changed after printing but it is definitely a 4pm kickoff. Venue: Oakwell Stadium, Grove Street, Barnsley, S71 1ET Ticket prices: Adults: £12 / Over-65s...

Jul162017 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

PREVIEW: Bury v Huddersfield Town – Pre-season friendly

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After all the hoohaa about away ticket priority, it’s nice to get back to talking about football. The football in question is a friendly between Huddersfield Town and Bury at Gigg Lane. Here’s a match preview with all the practical details, stats, opposition info, and idle speculation that you’re likely to need. Match details Kick-off: Sunday 16 July 2017, 3pm Ticket prices: Adults: £10 / Over-65s and under-23s: £5 / Accompanied under-12s: free of charge / Ambulant disabled & wheelchair-bound supporters: £5 with a free carer Town fans can pay on the day for the same prices as above. Travel info: The Football Ground Website has some useful information about how to get to Gigg Lane. It sounds like parking is tricky, as there’s virtually no official club parking, so you’re left to...

Jul132017 by Terrier Spirit1 Comment

Six things we learned from the Accrington Stanley friendly

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As I said in my preview of the Accrington Stanley friendly, I'm not a big fan of preseason games. I find them frustrating to watch even though I know that they're meant for building fitness rather than entertaining the crowds. Having said that, there are a few things we can take away from the game which are quite interesting. Here are six things I noticed: Embed from Getty Images Nahki Wells may have to play deeper to get game time Last night Nahki Wells played in the second-half 11, alongside Laurent DePoitre. I thought this may have represented a change in formation to accommodate two strikers but it seems that Nahki played deeper, as a number 10. He later played in central midfield when Kasey Palmer replaced Mark Hudson. I don't think he's likely to play in the midfiel...