[themaclad]

Huddersfield Town v Preston North End
John Smith's Stadium 12/12/2023

Epic fail by the club in the match preview Date: Tuesday 12th December, 7.45pm kick-off
Venue: Carrow Road

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LAST TIME OUT





FORM GUIDE

Huddersfield 9 PNE 7

Town unbeaten in four slightly improved form

NEWBIES



ATTACK



THE JOY OF EX



A warm welcome for the stopper tanged with Tangerine

HEAD TO HEAD



Not played them this season a rarity after playing them every week last season

MANAGER

Darren Mark Moore (born 22 April 1974) is a professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back. He is the current manager of EFL Championship club Huddersfield Town.

Born in England, he earned two international caps for Jamaica. Moore is also a member of the management committee of the Professional Footballers' Association. As a player, he represented Torquay United, Doncaster Rovers, Bradford City, Portsmouth, Derby County, Barnsley and Burton Albion. He also played for West Bromwich Albion, going on to serve as their manager between 2018 and 2019.

Darren made history by being the last player to be sent off at Deepdale on the artifical surface by leaving an imprint of Paul Raynor's head in the plastic

CULTURE

Lawrence Batley Theatre is a theatre in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England which offers drama, music, dance and comedy.

The theatre is named after Lawrence Batley, a local entrepreneur and philanthropist, who founded a nationwide cash and carry chain.

The building was originally built in 1819 as a Methodist chapel, called the Queen Street Chapel.[1] The architect is unknown but the chief mason was Joseph Kaye, the man who was also responsible for Huddersfield station.[1][2] It was opened on 9 July 1819 and the reporter in the Leeds Mercury described it as "one of the most handsome and commodious chapels in the kingdom; being capable of accommodating 3000 persons, and has been erected at an expense of from 8 to £10,000".[3] The chapel became a mission in 1906 until a decline in numbers saw the mission move out of the building in 1970 to a new building in King Street.[4] In 1973 the building was converted into an arts centre. However serious structural problems were discovered by Kirklees Metropolitan Council in 1975 and the Arts Centre was rehoused into Venn Street Arts Centre and the building remained vacant before being sublet to Novosquash Limited and converted to a squash club known as The Ridings. It also housed a restaurant and a The Catacombs Disco.[5][6] In 1989 the Kirklees Theatre Trust was given the go ahead to save the building from deterioration and launch Huddersfield's newest theatre. Building work for the theatre started in September 1992 and took 4 years to complete.



Who’s Available?

After missing the Norwich City match through illness, Calvin Ramsay’s health will need to be assessed ahead of Tuesday.

Milutin Osmajić will also be monitored, with his return from injury expected either at the John Smith's Stadium or for the weekend’s visit of Watford.

Long-term absentee Emil Riis may also be in contention for that game at Deepdale against the Hornets.

Opposition Focus

Huddersfield Town, who occupy 21st position in the Championship – two points above the drop zone – head into Tuesday night unbeaten in their last four.

The vastly-experienced Neil Warnock left the club in September and former Sheffield Wednesday boss Darren Moore took over, tasked with moving the Terriers up the table.

They’ve picked up some positive results in recent weeks, most notably a 2-1 victory over Sunderland at the Stadium of Light, but the manager was left disappointed at the weekend that his side let a lead slip to draw at home to Bristol City


Match Official

Referee: John Busby
Assistant Referees: Richard Wild and Mark Russell
Fourth Official: Geoff Eltringham

John Busby will take charge of his first PNE match of the season on Tuesday night, having refereed four of North End’s games last term.

The Lilywhites were unbeaten in those matches, with the latest being a 2-1 victory over Reading in April.

Busby has shown 69 yellow cards and one red in the 15 games he’s taken charge of this season.

MACS VIEW

Having seemingly adopted a 1960's Italian way of playing with a 9-1-0 formation we head over to West Yorkshire with no doubt the intention of boring the pants off everyone in the ground.
The last two league games between the sides in Yorkshire could have been classed as an atrocity against football, lost 1-0 under Frankie, won their last season under Mr Fantastic after 90 plus minutes of utter dire rubbish, can we make it a hat trick of shocking games, every possibility.
Two wins from the last 13 is relegation form bizarrely we are 8th  only saving grace is, it's only an hour away

[Lord Snooty]

Nice one, mac.

You're playing nine defenders as well? This really is gonna be a festival of football isn't it.

Good write up on the LBT. I've still never been though.

[themaclad]

Only been to the Amsterdam in Huddersfield

[theo_luddite]

So this could turn into a game of blow football then, where both defences wait for the wind to blow the ball in their direction before lobbing it back to half-way.

[Lord Snooty]

Could even be as good as the one a couple of years ago when we won 1-0 without a single shot on target.

[themaclad]

Could even be as good as the one a couple of years ago when we won 1-0 without a single shot on target. 

Remember it well, went down a storm in the away end that night

[themaclad]

Huddersfield Town 1 Ward Preston North End 3 Browne, Keane, Whiteman

Huddersfield Town starting XI: Maxwell; Pearson (Edmonds-Green, 65), Helik, Lees (Nakayama, 46); Thomas, Kasumu, Hogg, Austerfield (Wiles, 46), Koroma (Headley, 46); Ward (Diarra, 61), Burgzorg. Subs not used: Nicholls, Edwards, Ayina, Iorpenda.

PNE starting XI: Woodman; Storey, Whatmough, Lindsay (Brady, 84); Potts, Whiteman, Holmes (Frøkjær, 74), Browne (Woodburn, 84), Millar (Hughes, 67); Keane (McCann, 67), Evans. Subs not used: Cornell, Cunningham, Ledson, Best.

Attendance: 17,549 (1,176 PNE fans).

Referee: Mr J Busby.

Well that was totally unexpected after 4 games of utter dross, we turn up and play albeit against a side who were struggling, but you still have to do the job on the pitch and fair play to them they did. Browne and Miller outstanding, Whiteman gave a masterful performance as good as he has played in months. Suspect a lot of frustration was released last night after the flak they have got in recent weeks.
Three minutes in could have been 2 up also should have had a penalty. All involving Browne, shot wide from a good position, then brought down, then headed Holmes cross past Maxwell.
Looked as we could score every time we went forward, wasn't to last and started a bit of safety first play taking the sting out of the opposition, although Woodman had to produce a save from Burgzorg.
Massive chance for Town midway through the half as usual from one of our corners, Whiteman one heroic tackle midfield before putting in an even better one to stop Koroma from shooting.
Woke us up, and we were back on the front foot and duly got the second just before the break, Miller lost his marker and took on a Town defender who made the elementary mistake of turning his back, outside of right ball into Keane first time shot passed Maxwell, cruising. The second saw some Town fans head home.
Three changes at half time for the home side, much improved for 10 minutes, pulled a goal back right away, excellent cross from Pearson, Ward nods home, game on. Hanging on for a couple of minutes before we got a grip again, started to pass the ball about and regained control, Whitemman passed the third in from outside the box having seen it this morning the phrase goalkeeping error springs to mind.
Easy after that game management to the front and three points in the bag.

Nightmare journeyy home but the M61 was closed for obvious reasons

Huddersfield manager Darren Moore told BBC Radio Leeds:

"I'm not happy - not happy with the way we started the game, not happy with the energy and obviously going a goal down in the first two minutes, you can't be happy with that.

"We made a change at half-time because we had to get some impetus back into the game. Wardy scored his goal and we're back in the game, and we had a 10-15-minute spell where it looked like we were getting back in the game and forcing Preston back.

"The disappointing thing was that on the third goal, with the shot, and trajectory of the ball, that it ended up in the back of the net, which I didn't expect to see.

"That seemed to knock the wind out of our sails, they went into a low block and we found it difficult to break them down.

"I could have made changes 20 minutes into the game."

Preston North End boss Ryan Lowe told BBC Radio Lancashire:

"The performance was different class, from start to finish. Every single individual, and collectively as a team, were fantastic. The goals were well-worked.

"That was the plan, to get right after them early doors. We knew we'd have large parts of possession, and the lads executed the team plan to a tee.

"I've always had faith that the boys could do that as they've shown it before. Some people might have doubts, and that's fine, but for what we are and what we're trying to do, it's pleasing."




Miller's drag back for the second is outrageous