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Mansfield Town v Huddersfield Town
Sky Bet League One
Saturday November 22nd - 15:00 ko
at the One Call Stadium

FOLLOWED BY

Luton Town v Huddersfield Town
Sky Bet League One
Tuesday November 25th - 19:45 ko
at the Power Court Stadium

Huddersfield Town travel to the One Call Stadium to play Mansfield Town on Saturday afternoon. Then on Tuesday night go to Kenilworth Road to play against Luton Town not at the Power Court Stadium, they haven't built it yet.

In the match preview video below, manager Lee Grant has some news on the injury problems we've been having at the club. Anthony Evans, Joe Low and Murray Wallace have all returned to training this week, but Marcus McGuane has suffered a setback with his groin injury. Jack Whatmough is also a few weeks away from recovery.








Tickets:

Mansfield Town:-
Adults- £30
Senior (65 and over)- £26
U21- £23
U18- £20
U14- £15
U7- Free of charge

Family ticket- 1x adult & 1 child U18 or U14- £30



Luton Town:-
Adults- £29.00
Young Adults (Under 22) and seniors (Over 66)- £25.00
Under 19’s and Golden Seniors (Over 75)- £21.00
Youth Under 17*- £13.00
Juniors Under 14*- £10.00




Head to Head



Town lead the head to head with 12 wins to Mansfield's 5, with 7 draws.






Luton lead the head to head with 13 wins to Town's 11, with 8 draws.




Not a massive amount of games played against either of these two clubs, but amongst them are two massive meetings in the EFL Play Offs, from both of which we emerged victorious.

The Terriers came up against the Stags in the 4th tier Play Off Final in 2004 and in true Town tradition, it ended 0-0 after 120 minutes. Well this started the tradition actually, to be followed by similar wins against Sheffield United and Reading, both at Wembley. This one though was played at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium as Wembely was being rebuilt.

Town had come close a few times, but not close enough, before Mansfield's Colin Larkin did actually get the ball in the net just before the end of the 90 minutes. Thankfully, an eagle eyed linesman had his flag up. Not for offside, but for the airborne ball slightly drifting over the touchline before a Mansfield player passed it back into play, which led to the disallowed goal. Cheers. liner.

Without that decision, the name of Lee Fowler wouldn't have been written in Hudersfield Town legend. Also Danny Schofield, Tony Carss, Rob Edwards and of course Paul Rachubka.

And don't forget Liam Lawrence......

The Luton Play Off was more recent, the last time to date that we reached the Play Offs. By contrast to the Mansfield game, this was a semi final over two legs and the prize for winning the end of season lottery would be a place in the Premier League.

We drew the first leg 1-1 at Kenilworth Road, keeping up a superb record of never losing a first leg in all ten of our Play Off semi finals. But we did break with tradition in the 2nd leg by actually winning a home leg for the first time. Danel Sinani fired home early on for us at Luton and it just had to be Jordan Rhodes getting the winner at the John Smith's Stadium, before we were robbed at Wembley.

So what's going on down at Field Mill and Kenilworth Road? Well they are led by two managers on opposite ends of the experience scale. Nigel Clough, we all know a lot about and has now clocked up a grand total of 1,550 games as a manager. Breaking that down it's 709 at Burton Albion, 233 for Derby County and 104 at Sheffield United. That was followed by another stint with Burton, where he amassed another 228. He's now in his fifth year with the Stags and the defeat at Northampton last week was his 276th match at the helm.

By contrast, Jack Wilshere, the Luton manager had his 8th game as a manager when they played out a goal less draw at home to Rotherham on Saturday. That's six for the Hatters and two interim games when he was at Norwich City and they'd sacked Johannes Hoff Thorup. He's been at Luton since the 13th of October and this was after they sacked Matt Bloomfield the week before.

Recent form - last 6 matches:

Town 3-1 Plymouth
Town 3-1 Mansfield (EFL Trophy)
Bolton 2-1 Town (FA Cup)
Wycombe 3-0 Town
Town 1-2 Bolton
Town 1-2 Stockport

Northampton 2-1 Mansfield
Town 3-1 Mansfield (EFL Trophy)
Mansfield 3-2 Harrogate (FA Cup)
Mansfield 2-0 Plymouth
Mansfield 1-1 Wigan
Luton 0-2 Mansfield

Barnsley v Luton (on Saturday)
Luton 0-0 Rotherham
Stockport 0-3 Luton
Luton 4-3 Forest Green (FA Cup)
Luton 3-1 Brighton u21s (EFL Trophy)
Northampton 0-1 Luton

Town are 10th in the League One table with 22 points. Mansfield are 9th, also with 22 and Luton are 8th with 23. We are six points from top placed Stockport and seven points ahead of Blackpool in the relegation zone.







Anagrams: All these are from the Play Off meetings between the Towns of Huddersfield, Mansfield and Luton.

1. Jean Sprocket
   
2. Janet Hanson
   
3. Illuminant Dummies
   
4. Lara Hubcap UK
   
5. Raccoon Barrels
   
6. Wrinkle a Hotrod
   
7. The Luckier
   
8. Insane Linda
   
9. Bathroom Ass
   
10. Renewal Claim