Swansea vs Huddersfield prediction: ENGLAND: Championship betting tips on match 2023-04-14 14:00.
A fruitful Easter weekend saw both Swansea City and Huddersfield Town claim a win and a draw apiece, cementing their season’s ambitions with its conclusion fast approaching. For Swansea, sitting comfortably in 14th place means no real hopes of promotion nor fears of relegation exist, and they can simply enjoy their football from here on in, something their current four-game unbeaten streak (W3, D1) with three accompanying clean sheets definitely alludes to.
The Swans return home where perhaps their fans will likely expect more given they’ve won only two of their last nine home matches (D2, L5). One thing is almost a guarantee at the Swansea.com Stadium and that’s goals galore, as no Championship ground has seen the net bulge more than their tally of 58 this season prior to the round, tied with Burnley’s Turf Moor.
Huddersfield’s joyous Easter serves as the latest addition to what is now a five-game unbeaten streak (W3, D2), with that being their longest stretch of league games without defeat since a run of seven (W6, D1) to close out last season. They’ve subsequently managed to escape the dreaded relegation zone which they’ve occupied for the majority of the season, much to the credit of their miracle-worker manager Neil Warnock since his appointment (W4, D3, L3).
Warnock will have his own agenda when they travel to South Wales, a region he’s very familiar with having managed Swansea’s bitter rivals Cardiff for over three years. Despite being hefty underdogs here, Huddersfield will see this game as more of a lottery with there being nothing to separate these two sides across the last 12 H2Hs (W4, D4, L4).
Key battle: Joël Piroe has netted Swansea’s opener in each of his last nine goalscoring outings, just as he did in this fixture last season to win the match. He’ll find himself squaring off against Huddersfield defender Matty Pearson in more ways than one considering Pearson has been the Terriers chief destroyer lately scoring four goals in their last three matches.
Hot stat: No team has conceded the opening goal more often than Huddersfield in the Championship this season (26).