Walsall pack their bags to visit Huddersfield Town at Galpharm Stadium on Saturday afternoon, looking to break their duck against the hosts. The Saddlers have crashed to defeat in more than half of the matches.
The previous match played between the two at Galpharm Stadium was within the last three years, in October 2005, with Huddersfield running out comfortable 3 - 1 winners in a League One match.
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Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
2007/2008 | Sat 06 Oct | Walsall | 4 - 0 | Huddersfield | LGE1 |
2005/2006 | Sat 22 Apr | Walsall | 1 - 3 | Huddersfield | LGE1 |
2005/2006 | Sat 15 Oct | Huddersfield | 3 - 1 | Walsall | LGE1 |
2004/2005 | Sat 29 Jan | Walsall | 4 - 3 | Huddersfield | LGE1 |
2004/2005 | Sat 02 Oct | Huddersfield | 3 - 1 | Walsall | LGE1 |
1999/2000 | Sat 11 Mar | Huddersfield | 1 - 1 | Walsall | CHMP |
1999/2000 | Tue 23 Nov | Walsall | 2 - 0 | Huddersfield | CHMP |
Recent respective form guides
Huddersfield Town have only performed averagely at home, winning 3 and losing 2 of their last six. The goals for column just outweighs the goals against over this period, 7 to 6.
The Saddlers have had a decent run of form away from home recently, coming away with three points on 3 occasions, but drawing 1 and losing 2. The Saddlers's have a narrow positive goal difference over these games, with 7 goals for and 5 against.
Huddersfield's 60 points from 44 games sees them lie inside the top half of the table, in 12th position. Walsall lie just outside the playoff positions in the Coca-Cola League One, picking up 63 from their 44 games so far.
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Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
Huddersfield | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 11 |
Walsall | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 7 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
A creditable return from recent away games for Saddlers could well see them head back from Galpharm Stadium with a share of the spoils, think the FootyMad panel. Score draw
Sequence statistics: | |
Huddersfield | Unbeaten in the last 4 home games. Unbeaten run of 4 matches. |
Walsall | 4 games since last away draw. An overall losing run of 2 games. No win in the 2 most recent games. |