Huddersfield v Fulham: Premier League – live!

05 November 2018 07:54
Minute-by-minute coverage of the big game at the bottomRead Barry Glendenning’s Fiver on tonight’s gameEmail Ben with any thoughts or tweet @benfisherj 7.54pm GMT Both sets of players have warmed up in special T-shirts, with the words #TogetherWithLeicester, and the respective club crests. The John Smith’s Stadium is slowly filling up ahead of kick-off. 7.32pm GMT It’s a supremely foggy evening in Huddersfield. Is that a sign of what’s in store? It ought to be entertaining fare, with two hopeless defences pitting their wits against one another. Fulham have shipped 17 goals in five games, Huddersfield a meagre 10. The Championship must feel a world ago now for Fulham, but they beat the Terriers by an aggregate score of 9-1 in their two matches in 2016-17, before David Wagner’s side won that improbable promotion. Both teams badly need a victory. 7.13pm GMT Headline team news: Fulham captain Tom Cairney starts his first Premier League game since August, while Maxime Le Marchand is preferred to Tim Ream in defence alongside Denis Odoi in the only change. Conceding goals has been Fulham’s achilles heel, so there is a shed load of defenders on the bench, with Cyrus Christie, Alfie Mawson, Calum Chambers and Ream all making up the numbers. For Huddersfield, fit-again Kongolo, Hadergjonaj and Mounié come into the starting XI in place of Durm, Mbenza and Depoitre. 7.08pm GMT Huddersfield Town: Lössl; Löwe, Schindler, Jorgensen, Hadergjonaj; Kongolo, Mooy, Pritchard, Hogg, Billing; MouniéSubs: Hamer, Smith, Bacuna, Sobhi, van La Parra, Mbenza, Depoitre 5.49pm GMT So, could this be it? Could this be the evening Huddersfield Town register their first win of the season and get that monkey off their backs, or will Fulham rediscover that winning feeling in west Yorkshire? Slavisa Jokanovic’s side have looked badly out of sorts, defensively frail and dreadfully naive. Rather than supplement what stock they already had, a lavish £100m summer spree has rocked the boat, so much so that a sixth straight defeat would probably leave Jokanovic out of work. It is all a rather sad indictment of how quickly things can change, with Jokanovic rightly lauded for the football his side en route to promotion via Wembley last season. Continue readingreadfullarticle

Source: TheGuardian