Leeds United v Huddersfield Town
Championship | Elland Road
Saturday, 28 October 2023 @ 12.30pm
Leeds United host Huddersfield Town in Saturday lunchtime's match at Elland Road looking to bounce back from defeat last time out in the Championship.
Leeds, who sit third in the league after 13 games, fell to a 1-0 away defeat to Stoke City on Wednesday.
They face a Huddersfield side who also lost their last match, a 4-0 defeat to Cardiff City, and who sit 21st in the table.
In the last 10 years, Leeds and Huddersfield have played each other on nine occasions. Leeds won six of them and Huddersfield three.
On average, Leeds scored 2.1 goals and the Terriers 1.0 in those matches.
Their last meeting was on March 7 2020, when Leeds won 2-0 at home.
With 13 goals in 13 games so far this season, Huddersfield are scoring at below the league average rate with 1.0 goals per game. And they are conceding more than average, letting in 23 goals at a rate of 1.8 per game.
Leeds, meanwhile, are above average scorers, with 1.5 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.4. They have conceded 1.1 goals per game.
With Illan Meslier between the sticks, United can rely on one of the league's safest pair of hands. He has kept five clean sheets in his 13 appearances this season, and only two other 'keepers – West Bromwich Albion's Alex Palmer and Ipswich Town's Václav Hladký – have been able to prevent the opposition scoring on more occasions in the Championship.
In Town's net, Lee Nicholls has two clean sheets in 13 games. He has conceded a goal every 53 minutes, 80% more often than the 98 minutes between goals for Meslier.
The hosts are in reasonable form in the Championship, with four wins and two losses from their last six games.
With a win and three draws over that period, the Terriers's form is much worse – they have taken six points from 18, compared to Leeds's 12.