AFC Bournemouth v Huddersfield Town

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Return Of Some Fans To Dean Court

After our 0-0 draw in Wales against Swansea and recording two clean sheets in a row away from home it is back to Dean Court for the Cherries with our visitors being Huddersfield Town. Huddersfield won their home Tuesday evening game 2-0 against fellow Yorkshire club Sheffield Wednesday. The last time Huddersfield Town took all three points away from Dean Court was in August 2007. This game will see a small number of fans back at Dean Court, it will be the first time since the Chelsea game in February which had 10,667.

The Huddersfield Town manager is Spaniard Carlos Corberan. Before joining Huddersfield Town in July this year, he had a duel role at Leeds United as first team coach in their last season’s Championship winning side; his other role being in charge of Leeds’ Under 23 side. In the Summer amongst their signings, defenders Danny Ward from Cardiff, Pipa from Espanyol, Mahamadou Nabby-Sarr from Charlton. Midfielder Alex Vallejo from Fuenlabrada. Also they have signed two players on loan.

Town have had a mixed bag of results on their travels this season. Winning against our opponents last Tuesday, Swansea City 1-2 and 0-3 in London against Millwall. They have drawn with Rotherham United 1-1 and Wycombe Wanderers 0-0. Lost against Brentford 3-0, Birmingham City 2-1, Stoke City 4-3 and Cardiff City 3-0. At home they have W 5, D 1, L 3.

The last time we met Huddersfield at Dean Court was when both teams were in the Premier League. The Cherries won 2-1, our goals were scored by the two players who left our club to move up to the North East in the Summer. At the end of that season Huddersfield were relegated to the Championship.

In our league games at home against Huddersfield Town AFCB have W 10, D 8*, L 7. * Including play-off games. In all competitions, AFCB have W 16, D 19*, L 18.

AFCB Team News
Diego Rico is suspended for this game having picked up his fifth yellow card against Swansea. According to JT Arnaut Danjuma is training hard and is very close to a return. Josh King missed the Swansea game with a bad back.

AFCB Player To Watch
Lewis Cook had a very good game and his two shots at goal were narrowly off target. He has been looking sharper with each game.

Huddersfield Town Team News
They seem to have problems at centre-back, they now have their captain out after twisting his knee against QPR. Already missing is Tommy Elphick after having cruciate ligament surgery. Another centre-back missing will be Richard Stearman with a hamstring injury. Josh Koroma their leading scorer went off injured on Tuesday against Sheffield Wednesday and had scored three goals in his last four games. Another player going off injured on Tuesday night was Jonathan Hogg, but might feature on Saturday.

Huddersfield Player To Watch
Was going to pick Josh Koroma their left winger who seemed in good form. Isaac Mbenza seems to be showing some form at the moment and had a good game against Sheffield Wednesday. Harry Toffolo has the most assists with five.
 
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Rico being suspended probably answers the formation question, because short of throwing Zemura in we'll have to go Kelly at left back in a back 4. Would love to see Zemura come on at some point later in the game though.

My mind turns to the question of Billing. An enigma, but improved lately. If motivated he is very effective, and with Huddersfield being his former club I wonder if his motivation will be piqued? I'd find a way of accommodating him to start with. Though Lerma has to start surely?

Sounds like Danjuma will be ready, fingers crossed.

4-3-3

---------Begovic
Smith Mepham Cook Kelly
----------L.Cook
-------Lerma Billing
Brooks Solanke Danjuma

Trvaers, Simpson, Zemura, Ofoborh, Gosling, Anthony, Stanislas, Riquelme, Surridge - has plenty of creative/attacking options if and when we need later in the game.
 
"Rico being suspended probably answers the formation question, because short of throwing Zemura in we'll have to go Kelly at left back in a back 4."

Or play Simpson on the left of a back three, with Kelly as left wing back.
 
Any update on Carter-Vickers? If he was available he'd be another option.

Having said that, we should be chasing the three points here so I hope we go with the extra forward/striker rather thsn defender.
 
As much as I love Rico; an almost unhealthy amount, I have a sneaking suspicion that once we see Zemura in the league in the LWB position specifically, he'll lock it down. Scoring for fun for the U21s, didn't look out of place at all against PL opposition. If we want to maintain the 3 at the back, which personally I found worked very well against both Barnsley & Swansea, then I'd be happy with this (granted, I know full well that Barnsley play a very specific way that we countered, and I know shite all about Huddersfield):

------------Begovic------------
----Mepham--Cook--Kelly----
Smith------Cook------Zemura
-------Brooks-----Billing-------
---Solanke---------Surridge---

Or, depending on injuries...

--------------Begovic--------------
Smith---Mepham---Cook---Kelly
-----Lerma----Cook----Billing-----
Brooks------Solanke------Danjuma
 
adam0102 said:
What, his great great great great great great great grandfather's got a bad back?

Definitely needs time off, then....
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:grinning:

Think JT is running out of things to say re the player.

But it could just be he has had a bad luck of injuries since getting over the virus.
 
I wonder if that funny site is still going, that does tongue in cheek cartoonish match reports.
 
Though Bournemouth could only manage a goalless draw last time out, the result extended their solid run of not conceding a goal to 202 minutes of play, whilst improving their clean sheet rate to 35% of league games. Even so, no Championship side has seen both teams score in more than Bournemouth’s ten games so far.
Bournemouth lost their first home league game last time out here (W5, D2, L1) - despite conceding first in three games here so far (W1, D1, L1). Furthermore, a 60% majority (three) of their previous five victories here saw them level or behind at HT, with Bournemouth scoring twice as many goals between 76’-FT (six) here as before HT (three).
Huddersfield are currently protecting a 185-minute run without conceding a goal, and are unbeaten in four of their last five league games (W3, D1, L1).
However, the Terriers’ bark may be worse than their bite, as they’ve kept three straight clean sheets just once since their 2019 relegation, and they failed to score themselves in two of those games.
Compounding the latter, Huddersfield look to end a 210-minute run without scoring in away league games, while they’ve failed to keep a clean sheet in seven of their last nine such games, shipping 2+ goals in five. That said, Huddersfield are unbeaten in 44.83% of their last 29 away league games entered as outsiders (W7, D6, L16).
Players to watch: Bournemouth’s Dominic Solanke looks to continue his trend of scoring in one game and not the next across the last six games - failed to score last time out.
There have been no such blanks for Huddersfield’s Josh Koroma lately; he has scored an opening goal within 15 minutes in his last two starts.
Hot stat: Huddersfield have lost all five games vs relegated sides since their own relegation to the Championship, conceding 2+ goals in four of those clashes.
 
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