Huddersfield vs Reading
English League Championship
Date: Tuesday, 21st February 2017
Kick off at 19:45 UK / 20:45 CET
Venue: Galpharm Stadium, Huddersfield.
Huddersfield Town
The Huddersfield Town fans may be looking forward to a trip to The Etihad Stadium for the FA Cup Fifth Round Replay next week, but the performance against Manchester City has to have whetted the appetite as to what they can potentially be watching regularly next season. David Wagner and his players will also have felt they matched a Premier League opponent for long periods and are ready to be promoted to the top flight in what has been a season of overachievement already.
While The Terriers were in FA Cup action on Saturday, they would have come back into the dressing room and noticed that Brighton restored a bit of a gap between themselves and Huddersfield Town in the League. That has meant Huddersfield Town are 7 points off the automatic promotion spots in the Championship, and that makes this game in hand very important for them. The side have a 11-2-2 record at home this season where they have scored 24 goals and conceded 13.
Huddersfield Town are unbeaten in 7 games in all competitions and they had won 6 of those before the draw with Manchester City at the weekend. Being at home in the League has been important for Huddersfield Town who have won 5 of their last 6 games here including the last 3 in a row.
Reading
The next six days are going to tell us all we need to know about Reading's chances of finishing in one of the automatic promotion positions as Jaap Stam takes his side to both Huddersfield Town and Brighton in the League in that time. Win both games and Reading will really feel they can earn promotion to the Premier League without the stress of the Play Offs, lose both and Stam will be hoping to restore confidence for a top six finish.
At the moment Reading are 4th in the Championship table and 8 points behind Brighton in the automatic promotion spots. This game will actually mean they have played one more game than Brighton so the importance of the next two fixtures will not be lost on anyone. The Royals have a 7-2-6 record away from home in the League, scoring 21 goals and conceding 28 in those games.
Reading are unbeaten in 6 games going into this big clash and they have won 4 of those after snapping a run of consecutive draws with a 3-2 win over Brentford last week. The side have lost 1 of their last 5 away games in the League and Reading have won 3 of those although had to settle for a 2-2 draw at Ipswich Town last time out on their travels.
Huddersfield vs Reading: Head-to-head
Reading defeated Huddersfield 1-0 when they met for the first leg clash of the season on September last year.
However, Huddersfield are unbeaten in the last three home matches against Reading with 2 wins and a draw. The two wins are in consecutive league matches, while the draw came in the 2016 FA Cup clash. All the three matches have seen over 2.5 goals.
Huddersfield vs Reading: Predictions
The home side are strong favourites to win this one outright. Huddersfield scored in every league game at home but once this season. But they kept only 3 clean sheets during those 15 games.
Reading are in good scoring form, but their defense is all over the places. This could cost them the match here.
Therefore, this can be a high scoring affair with both teams finding the back of the net at some point. And Huddersfield with their excellent form are poised to steal the bragging rights at the Galpharm Stadium on Tuesday night.
Huddersfield vs Reading: Bet Tips
Both Teams to Score and Huddersfield to win at 3/1 (4.00).
