H2H: Stoke City vs Huddersfield Town – Prediction (Championship

H2H: Stoke v Huddersfield – Comparison.

Stoke’s four-goal Steven Fletcher has scored for two games running and has two career H2H goals; two of his four goals were headers as well as each of his ‘head-to-head’ goals. Huddersfield’s three-goal Josh Koroma’s last two goals came as first goalscorer and both were netted in the first half. Forty-percent of Huddersfield’s 25 goals for/against arrived from the 76th minute till FT, as did 25.93% of Stoke’s 27 match goals.

Stoke Insights.

Netting in both halves of their last two Championship matches (W1, L1), eighth-placed Stoke City harried league leaders Reading last time out (3-0), and capitalised on defensive errors. Scoring over 1.5 goals in five of their last seven league games, the ‘Potters’ look fired-up much like in the last H2H (5-2) wherein they scored first and bagged four second-half goals. Stoke have led at HT for two straight matches at the Bet365 Stadium (W2) where a 1-0 win last time ended a run of two games ending with over 2.5 total goals and goals in both halves. Considering the last three H2Hs (in all competitions) here have produced under 2.5 total goals, with no first-half goals, scoring first could be vital as the first to score has won each such H2H (W2, L1).

Huddersfield Insights.

Huddersfield Town will feel unlucky in 13th-place having narrowly lost three of their last five league matches 2-1. Yet the ‘Terriers’ have scored in each of their last nine Championship matches (W4, D2, L3), snatching the first goal in six such fixtures; however, six of those saw both teams score. This fixture has a rich history, and of Huddersfield’s last 15 competitive trips to Stoke since September 1971 (W3, D4, L8), just one H2H has produced over three total goals with five such matchups seeing both teams score. Of further interest, each of their last four trips here have seen three or fewer total yellow cards brandished, just as in six of Huddersfield’s last seven awaydays in 2020!