Carlos keen to keep his changes to a minimum

HUDDERSFIELD Town should be wary about making too many changes from the side that claimed a 2-0 victory against Nottingham Forest when they host Barnsley tonight, but injuries and fitness doubts may force Carlos Corberan’s hand.

Fraizer Campbell is ruled out injured but Yaya Sanogo could return subject to how he got on in his returning to training on Tuesday.

However, we’d be surprised if Corberan didn’t go with Danny Ward up top regardless of the Frenchman’s fitness.

Ward had an encouraging outing for the side at the weekend after replacing

Campbell shortly before halftime.

Any further changes Corberan makes are likely to come down to the availability of his full-backs.

Pipa’s groin injury being managed on a game-by-game basis and Harry Toffolo a ‘question mark’ given he only returned to full training on Friday before playing 66 minutes against Forest.

Medical advice may preclude either from playing, but with both Pipa and Toffolo a doubt, Corberan could play one of them at left-back and save the other for the weekend’s trip to Blackburn.

Either way, Rarmani EdmondsGreen or Demeaco Duhaney could start at right-back. Aaron Rowe is also a possibility for that role despite a positive outing after starting on the left wing against Bournemouth and his first Championship goal from the right of the front three at the weekend.

That’s especially viable if Rolando Aaron, Sorba Thomas or Josh Koroma were to start the game and take Rowe’s place in attack.

Corberan is also cautiously optimistic that Carel Eiting may be able to return to his squad after over three months out with a knee injury, but it’s hard to imagine him making it into the starting lineup.

A late cameo from the bench by the Dutchman would be lovely.

CARLOS Corberan has voiced his strong opposition to the European Super League as the competition looked on the brink of collapse last night.

The Huddersfield Town manager is the latest figure in the game to come out against the plan, which proposed 12 clubs from across Europe – including the Premier League’s so-called Big Six – ditch the Champions League in favour of a European competition of their own devising.

However, last night the proposals were thrown into doubt after reports Chelsea and Manchester City were to withdraw from the competition – along with Barcelona and Atletico Madrid in Spain.

The shameful money-grabbing scheme would have given the clubs involved control over how revenues were distributed, who is considered rarefied enough to be permitted to grace the competition, and which undesirables just aren’t exciting enough to take part regardless how good they might actually be at football.

Asked for his views on the proposals, Terriers boss Corberan said: “Being honest, I am not a fan of these things and when I’m not a fan of something I don’t listen a lot.

“I can only tell you right now that I like a lot the Premier League, I like a lot the Championship, I like it a lot when I watch a Champions League game. It’s a very nice competition with the best teams depending what they did in the previous season.

“I always like in football that when you start the game you start with the same number of players for every team. It’s not about the squad you have with more money or less money, everyone on the pitch has the same conditions, same number of players, same minutes to play, and everything that is going to happen on the pitch is going to depend on how you perform.

“That’s something that makes football fantastic. You can have less money than another team but if you perform better you can have the three points, you can have the win, and for me football needs to promote that type of thing.

“Always for me the meaning of a regular season is about your league position and whether you achieve different targets or not.

“I think always playing in a competition needs to be a consequence of your performance during the regular season.

“Any league that we create depending just about the name of the club and not about your position in the table, I don’t think it’s a benefit to the real spirit of football.

“I can understand the frustrations of people who love football and want to continue watching football in the same way they are enjoying football right now.

“Sometimes we make changes like VAR and we need to be adaptable to improve football, but keeping the sense, keeping the spirit, keeping the real feeling of the football.

“As soon as you start to put this spirit in doubt we start to put the love of the people at risk too.

■■FOOTBALL fans across the country sent a resounding message to the European Super League - stay away from our game.

In an online survey of more than 100,000 supporters conducted by the Huddersfield

Examiner and our sister titles, 85pc of participants said they disagreed with the concept of the ESL, echoing the nationwide fury.

The pressure seems to have told on

Chelsea and Manchester City, who last night looked to be on the verge of pulling out of the

“For me it’s something that we need to keep very important because everything we do is for our fans. It’s very important to make improvements to football but always respecting the real feeling of the football and, of course, keeping the same spirit of every fan. Don’t touch that type of spirit because it’s the most important thing in football.

“In life I don’t understand and I don’t like anything that doesn’t depend on merit. “That is for me the spirit of life because it’s what makes everyone equal, because it’s not about where you were born, it’s not about the money or family. If you have a lot of determination and you work really

Always playing in a competition needs to be a consequence of your performance during the regular season

plan. For fans of the clubs involved with the plans, a mere 5 percent said they were ‘supportive’ of the plans, while over a third described themselves as feeling ‘angry’ or ‘embarrassed’.

Elsewhere, supporters of clubs outside of the Premier League’s Big Six have also made their feelings clear, with 83pc of those fans admitting they are glad their team isn’t involved in the proposals.

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hard, you can get the same thing as anyone in the world.

“For me that is life and for me football has to be exactly the same. Everything that you achieve as a team has to depend on the merits of what you are doing.

“So always things that keep this spirit and keep this feeling are things I feel proud of, and I think everything in life - jobs, how a country is working - has to respect that people that are making merit enough to do something and have the opportunity to get it.

“If you stop these people the option to grow on their merits, you are going to create confusion in the minds of the people because then aspects like the family you were born into or the money you have in the bank are going to be more important than your behaviours.

“For me, I like it in life if everything depends on the behaviours you are doing.”