Saturday, at 15:00, Huddersfield receives Bournemouth’s visit to the 30th Premier League, in a duel with no major implications in the standings. The hosts are downgraded to 20th place (15-51 goals) and England’s weakest offensive statistics, while Bournemouth still needs some points to be safe for rescue. Guests are on 12th place (39-54 golaver) and come after a series of modest results.
Curiously, the share of “cherries” is on the rise, even if it is likely that Stanislas and Wilson (the team’s top scorer) will be back in the first “11”. However, Eddie Howe is still without the services of Cook, Francis and Solanke, which has influenced the recent results of the band off the coast. Bournemouth has a very modest balance in travel, where he scored only 13 goals in 14 games, with only 9 points accumulated away from home! Huddersfield is the weakest team in the division, with only two home games and seven goals scored – fewer than any other Premier League. The hosts will miss Diakhaby, Mbenza, Smith and Williams.
Bournemouth did not manage to end the negative series he entered in the end of 2019, and last round lost to Manchester City, score 0-1, without running a corner or even at least once at the gate! It was an authoritative game dominated by Pep Guardiola’s champions, and Eddie Howe has beaten his head after failing with City, Arsenal (1-5), Liverpool (0-3) and Cardiff (0-2). That’s right, the program was not easy for the Vitality Stadium team, which finally has an accessible match. We expect visitors to take full advantage of and attack all the points, in order to quickly end the fight against relegation.
Huddersfield comes after a failure in Brighton (0-1), decided by Florin Andone’s goal, but Jan Siewert’s team won the last home game, score 1-0 in front of Wolverhampton. However, there are few arguments from the hosts, even if the “Terriers” play somewhat more offensive than changing the manager. Even so, Huddersfield has 6 defeats in the last 7 stages and the rudimentary defense of the white-blue will be promptly penalized by Eddie Howe’s strikers. The tour was 2-1 for Bournemouth, on the ground, but “cherry” lost the last season’s move, with an unlikely 1-4. There are two hesitant defenses and we should witness a nice show on Kirklees Stadium. Five of Bournemouth’s last six visits to Huddersfield have brought at least 4 goals!
HUDDERSFIELD – BOURNEMOUTH’S PROBABLE TEAMS:
Huddersfield: Lossl – Bacuna, Schindler, Kongolo, Durm – Stankovic – Mooy, Pritchard, Billing – Grant, Mounie
Bournemouth: Boruc – Clyne, Mepham, Ake, A. Smith – Brooks, Lerma, Gosling, Fraser – Wilson, King
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / YES @ 1,86
