Huddersfield Town digest: Injuries and predicted line-up as at least 11 players set to miss Plymouth clash
The Terriers may be able to welcome back Lynden Gooch after his missed out against Mansfield, but otherwise Lee Grant will still have around half his squad missing
What’s been said
You can read our selected highlights and listen along to the entirety of Lee Grant’s press conference — as well as skipper Ryan Ledson’s thoughts— right here on We Are Terriers.
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Plymouth Argyle are back in League One after two years in the Championship, but have made a surprisingly poor start to the campaign under new head coach Tom Cleverley and find themselves in the relegation zone with just 13 points from their first 14 games.
After a promising run of four wins in six league games (and five in six in all competitions), Plymouth have taken just one point from their past four league games as well as being knocked out of the FA Cup by Wycombe. This will be Plymouth’s fourth away trip in a row; all of the previous three have ended as 2-0 defeats.
The Pilgrims’ biggest issue has been keeping the ball out of the net. They have to worst defensive record in the division (25 goals conceded), despite having the joint-best record in the division for defending non-penalty set pieces (just one conceded).
Lorent Tolaj has been a rare highlight up the other end of the pitch, scoring five goals from centre-forward.
We’ll have five conclusions for our paying subscribers on the game first thing on Sunday morning, followed by reaction to the Mansfield and Plymouth games in Monday morning’s podcast — so get signed up now if you’re not already to make you you don’t miss out!
Huddersfield Town injuries and absences
Ah bloody hell, strap in.
Alfie May is suspended for the next two league games but has picked up a lower leg injury anyway, which kept him out of Tuesday’s clash with Mansfield. The forward had a scan on Tuesday and it is hoped he will be able to be back in training next week.
Joe Low also missed the Mansfield game, with a calf injury. He is very unlikely to appear against Plymouth this weekend. Low is hoped to be back available after the international break, or shortly thereafter.
Lynden Gooch has a calf injury too. He had a scan on Monday that did not reveal any major damage. He has not been back in training yet this week it is hoped he might be available to play a part this weekend.
Jack Whatmough’s had been hoped to be back from his calf injury already but suffered a setback in his recovery. And any guesses on David Kasumu’s injury? Yep, calf, you got it. Both players could be looking at returns on the other side of the international break.
Antony Evans also hit a bump in the road (not literally, we assume) on his recovery from a knee injury and is also looking like missing the Plymouth game at the very least.
Leo Castledine is out with the shoulder injury he suffered at Wycombe and is likely to keep him out for the next few weeks.
Murray Wallace remains sidelined with a foot injury, and Marcus McGuane is still working his way back from a long lay-off with a groin issue.
Will Alves, Herbie Kane and Zepiqueno Redmond are all long-term absentees.
Predicted line-up to face Plymouth Argyle
4-4-2: Lee Nicholls; Lasse Sorensen, Josh Feeney, Radinio Balker, Ruben Roosken; Ben Wiles, Ryan Ledson, Marcus Harness, Mickel Miller; Bojan Radulovic, Dion Charles.
Substitutes: Owen Goodman, George Iorpenda, Sean Roughan, Lynden Gooch, Dan Vost, Cameron Ashia, Joe Taylor.
Huddersfield Town Women
Town Women will make their second trip to Cheadle Town Stingers of the season, this time in the second round of the FA WNL Plate in Sunday’s 2pm kick-off.
The Terriers pulled off a 3-2 victory over upper-tier Loughborough Lightning in the last round to book their place in this round, while Cheadle beat Sheffield FA.
These two sides know each other well with both of them competing for the sole promotion place into the third tier. Cheadle are the current league leaders with six wins, one draw and one defeat from their eight games so far, putting them just one point ahead of Huddersfield.