Burnley 0 v 0 Huddersfield Town

Burnley (7th) v Huddersfield Town (6th)

Saturday 23rd September

Kick off 3pm

Turf Moor

Town are on the road again, we travel the short distance over the Pennines to Turf Moor, home of Burnley. Both Burnley and ourselves suffered cup defeats during the week, our second team losing to Palace while they suffered the indignity of losing a penalty shoot out to Leeds.

To be honest I don't know that much about the Burnley players apart from Scott Arfield, Chris Wood and of course Nahki Wells, who I believe will not be fit to play against us. This is good as he would have been sure to score. We know all about Chris Wood, in my opinion his goals were the reason Leeds challenged as long as they did last season, and he has already started scoring for Burnley. We need to keep him quiet, who would you put on him, Schindler or Zanka?

I believe we have a few injury concerns for this game. Mounie and Quaner are out and Williams and Depoitre are doubts. Do we put Billing back in midfield with Mooy or should it be Hogg? I'd like Hogg to be a starter as I think we'll need his tenacity and work rate. I'd also like to see the young Moroccan lad, Sabiri(?) start. There seems to be some discussion over whether Malone should come in instead of Lowe but I don't expect this to happen. Lowe is a good player and I'm sure he has learnt from his mistake against Leicester.

I expect Burnley to play more of a direct game instead of a passing one but I could be totally wrong, as usual I do think this is an important game though and we could do with getting something out of it, to add to our already impressive points total, before we host Spurs next week.

I'm going for my usual 2-1 to us with Kachunga and Ince being the scorers.