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Huddersfield Vs Blackburn


Date: August 15th
Venue: John Smith Stadium ( power permitting)



On Saturday Huddersfield welcome Blackburn Rovers to the john smith stadium for the first home league game of the season.
it would seem that this is already a critical game for both teams, Huddersfield fans optimism evaporated quickly after the poor pre season results have continued into the season and the frustration of fans was exasperated Tuesday with a disjointed and inept performance against league 2 Notts County in the league cup
The Squad is already showing a lack of depth, missing Vaughan, Scannell and Lolley the team seemed devoid of any pace and power . any width was very one sided. Powell attempted to force width into the team by playing Smith and Davidson as wingbacks, the experiment has failed miserably.
both players are naturally defensive players and while Davidson obviously struggled with being caught out of position too often, Smith looked completely out of his depth and was subbed both games.
Although town created chances the past 2 games they have lacked a cutting edge, in this division you need to be clinical as you wont get 15 chances every game, you may only get a couple and they have to be taken.
its hard to believe that the cor of this team is the same that went 7 games unbeaten at the end of last season and at times played some good football.It seems Chris Powell has fallen under the Huddersfield Managers Curse and has compromised the talent of the team by playing overly defensive football early injuries and lack of squad depth have not helped the cause , can we please bring in a decent centre back and why not give young Hanson a shot at right back, hes been impressive in the U21s and at this point honestly what do we have to lose

Blackburn's start to the season has been as disappointing as Huddersfields, an opening day Loss to a resurgent Wolves was followed by by a league cup loss the Shrewsbury having already lost key players this year the major talking point around Blackburn Rovers right now revolves around the fate of former Huddersfield striker Jordan Rhodes, will he stay or will he go.

Confidence is low for both teams, the question will be on Saturday who can lift themselves up and maybe kickstart their season, you could argue the pressure is on Town being the home team, if the game starts to go badly the crowd will let their frustrations be known.



Team

Its imperative that Town come out of the block flying and go on the attack early, so for me its back to basics let the defenders defend and let the midfielders move the ball forward and get it wide as often as possible. so 4-4-2 with our full backs being actual fullbacks, a central midfield of Hogg and Butterfield. Hogg playing in front of the back four and Butterfield behind the strikers , if Scannell is fit he has to start as he gives us much needed pace the same with Vaughan , when hes on his game hes as good as any striker in the league and can head a cross on target

if Scannell isnt fit then hopefully Lolley is, if both are still out then why not give someone like Holmes a try out wide, he has the pace and skill and can cross a ball. if Vaughan still isnt fit then Miller would start for me


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Another option if those players are not fit would be a 4-3-3
I'm not convinced by Whitehead, which is a shame as on paper he was a good signing so a middle 3 of Hogg, Butterfield and Dempsey for me
a front 3 of Miller central with Wells and Bunn on either side


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