Huddersfield Town digest: Team news, preview and predicted line-up for Wigan trip
The Terriers will take on their next challenge at the Brick Community Stadium in a 3pm kick-off
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Wigan Athletic are in the relegation zone but showing signs of life after the return of former promotion-winning manager Gary Caldwell.
After making the move back from Exeter earlier this month, Caldwell inspired a 1-0 win over Luton in his first game in charge and saw the Latics take the lead twice early on away to Stockport, only to end up losing 4-2 with nine men.
Joe Taylor is ineligible to face his parent club, while Steven Sessegnon and Maleace Asamoah are both suspended after getting sent off against Stockport.
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Elsewhere in the top half of League One
There’s a lot of top half vs bottom half encounters among Saturday’s games, including (3pm unless indicated):
Northampton vs Peterborough (12:30pm)
Doncaster vs Cardiff
Exeter vs Bolton
Lincoln vs Blackpool
Port Vale vs Luton
Reading vs Bradford
Rotherham vs Plymouth
Stevenage vs Stockport
Wycombe vs Burton
Wycombe will also make up a game in hand as they visit Barnsley on Tuesday evening.
Huddersfield Town injuries and absences
Lynden Gooch went off feeling his groin against Doncaster last Tuesday night and is expected to miss around 3-6 weeks in total.
Mickel Miller rolled his ankle against Stevenage and missed the games against Doncaster and Barnsley, but is back in training now and could be in contention to face Wigan.
Marcus McGuane is expected back in training in the next week or two after going off against Stevenage with a groin injury.
Bojan Radulovic (hamstring) and Joe Low (calf) are both set to be out until around about the end of March, while Jack Whatmough remains out following his calf injury.
Predicted line-up to face Wigan Athletic
4-3-3: Lee Nicholls; Lasse Sorensen, Radinio Balker, Murray Walalce, Bali Mumba; David Kasumu, Ryan Ledson, Cameron Humphreys; Cameron Ashia, Alfie May, Marcus Harness.
Substitutes: Jak Alnwick, Sean Roughan, Antony Evans, Will Alves, Mickel Miller, Ryan Hardie.
Huddersfield Town Women
Town Women will be looking to hold on to first place at the top of the FA WNL Division One North after their victory over Leeds United on Sunday afternoon put them in pole position in the promotion race.
They will now host Durham Cestria on Sunday afternoon at 2pm down at the Stafflex Arena.
Durham have got themselves into fine form after an inconsistent start to the season and have won all of their past nine games in all competitions, including seven in the league.
