Huddersfield Town digest: Latest injury news, predicted line-up and Rotherham preview
The latest on Jack Whatmough, Marcus McGuane, Bojan Radulovic and more as the Terriers prepare to face Rotherham United in Saturday's lunchtime kick-off
What’s been said
You can read our selected highlights and listen along to the entirety of Liam Manning’s press conference — as well as Murray Wallace’s thoughts — right here on We Are Terriers.
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Town’s visitors for Saturday’s 12:30 kick-off, Rotherham United, have had a season of extremely streaky form. They started the campaign with just two league wins before the end of September, picked up more League One points than anyone in October and November, and then lost seven league games in a row either side of Christmas.
Since then, it’s been three unbeaten, then four defeats, and most recently a 1-0 win over Plymouth and a goalless draw with Mansfield that suggest they are concentrating on making themselves harder to beat just at the moment, despite both of those two games being at home.
Rotherham have been the worst away team in the division this season with just 11 points from 16 games on their travels, and have particularly struggled in front of goal with just 13 strikes across those games.
This is the third time Town have faced Rotherham this season, with both of the previous meetings — in the league just before Christmas and in the Vertu Trophy just a few weeks later — seeing the Terriers scoring three times.
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Elsewhere in the top half
Saturday 3pm kick-offs unless otherwise stated
Cardiff vs Lincoln (12:30)
Bolton vs Wycombe
Bradford vs Leyton Orient
Burton vs Stevenage
Luton vs Reading
Peterborough vs Port Vale
Plymouth vs Doncaster
Stockport vs Mansfield
Huddersfield Town injuries and absences
Mickel Miller is fit and available after returning to training before the trip to Wigan following a minor ankle injury.
Marcus McGuane also returned to training last week and is still ‘playing catch-up’ a bit after missing so much football this season, but is in contention for this weekend.
Jack Whatmough has played twice for the under-21s over the past couple of weeks and is building himself back up to full match fitness after missing the past six months of first-team action with a calf injury.
Bojan Radulovic and Joe Low are both expected to be out until around the end of this month with hamstring and calf injuries respectively.
Lynden Gooch (groin) is ruled out until the end of March/beginning of April.
Predicted line-up to face Rotherham
4-2-3-1: Lee Nicholls; Bali Mumba, Radinio Balker, Murray Wallace, Sean Roughan; Ryan Ledson, Cameron Humphreys; Cameron Ashia, Alfie May, Marcus Harness; Ryan Hardie.
Substitutes: Jak Alnwick, Josh Feeney, Lasse Sorensen, David Kasumu, Mickel Miller, Will Alves, Dion Charles.
Huddersfield Town Women
Town Women will be at home to Norton & Stockton Ancients on Sunday at 2pm at the Graham Leslie Arena (formerly the Stafflex).
Norton & Stockton had gone without a league draw all season until their last three games, all of which have ended in stalemates.
The Terriers hold a two-point advantage over Leeds United at the top of the table, in spite on their two-point deduction, although Wythenshawe could go within a point of Town if they were to win their game in hand.
Leeds are set to go away from home to bottom-of-the-table Blackburn this weekend, while Wythenshawe visit Durham Cestria.
