Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Intrigue for the final selection!

- By STEVEN CHICKEN @examinerHT­AFC

EVEN the most one-eyed Terriers fan will have at least half of that eye on the much more interestin­g relegation battle at the bottom of the Championsh­ip today, but there is nonetheles­s some intrigue over how their side will approach an end-ofterm encounter in Reading.

Carlos Corberan has confirmed none of the players who missed the games against Blackburn Rovers and Coventry City will return for this game, which means no Fraizer Campbell, Danny Grant, Alex Vallejo or - sadly - Christophe­r

Schindler. After playing through injury in the last few weeks, Corberan has confirmed Harry Toffolo and Pipa will also not be risked for the deadest and rubberiest dead rubber since the invention of bad calamari.

Demeaco Duhaney and Jaden Brown have both been left out of the last couple of matchday squads so unless Corberan is going to bring them back, we’d expect Aaron Rowe to fill one of those full-back slots.

Someone is therefore going to have to play out of position to fill the other, and after watching Toffolo shuffle across to become a third centre-back against Coventry. We’re going to tip Rarmani EdmondsGre­en to do the same from rightback to try and stop Reading doing to Huddersfie­ld Town what Blackburn did against Richard Keogh and Naby Sarr.

Scott High has made numerous substitute appearance­s in the second half of the season and we’re half-expecting him to get a start here alongside Jonathan Hogg and Lewis O’Brien in midfield - though that would mean dropping Juninho Bacuna, which Corberan has been mystifying­ly reluctant to do all season.

Danny Ward should keep his place up front after his goal from the bench last weekend, and if Rolando Aarons and Josh Koroma are both fit enough and starting them poses no undue risk then they should flank him in a preview of what could be Town’s starting front line next season.

The trio have only been on the pitch at the same time for 52 minutes this campaign but have scored two goals in that time.

We’d quite like to see Tommy Elphick get at least a few minutes from the bench as a reward for his hard work coming back from an 18-month injury lay-off, and there is room for at least one B team pros

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