Huddersfield vs Leeds prediction: ENGLAND: Championship betting tips on match 2024-03-01 12:30.
Championship strugglers Huddersfield Town rallied in fine style to stage a comeback win at Watford over the weekend, although the challenge doesn’t get any easier as they prepare to welcome their West Yorkshire rivals and automatic promotion chasing Leeds United. That was André Breitenreiter’s first game as the Terriers boss, with the German praising the team spirit his side displayed after they came from behind to win a league game for the first time this term.
They’ll need to bottle up that pack mentality if they’re to get anything from this game after losing by multiple goal margins in each of the last three H2H encounters. That is a fate that Huddersfield have suffered in just one of their last eight games, with their six unbeaten outings across the same period (W3, D3, L2) suggesting that the Terriers may well have turned the corner in their battle to stave off relegation.
The race for the title became interesting once again after Daniel Farke’s Leeds came from behind to blow runaway leaders Leicester away 3-1 last week. That result moved Leeds to within six points of the Foxes, which is ultimately the result of an imperious run of nine straight league wins, Leeds’ strongest such run at this level since the Championship’s 2004 rebranding.
That incredible form includes four straight away victories in which Leeds scored ten unanswered goals, leaving them the joint-longest ongoing Championship winning run on the road. Continuing that here will be easier said than done if history is indicative of this result, as Leeds have kept just two clean sheets across their last nine jaunts across West Yorkshire to face Huddersfield (W4, D1, L4).
Players to watch: Danny Ward staked his claim to play from the outset here after scoring twice as a substitute last weekend, tripling his league goal tally for the season in the process (G3). Another man fully deserving of his place is highly-rated Leeds youngster Archie Gray, whose first senior goal for the club served as the decisive late winner in their last league outing.
Hot stat: 23 of Huddersfield’s 34 league games (68%) have seen both sides score, a joint Championship high.