Huddersfield Town and Bournemouth are both coming from winless outings as they head to face off in the Championship. Hosts Huddersfield suffered a 2-0 loss to Millwall leaving them third with 63 points and Bournemouth’s 1-1 draw with Reading sees them hold on to second spot with 66 points. Huddersfield Town’s loss marked a third straight winless outing and also a third time in five that they conceded twice. They have scored two or more three of their last five matches and three of their last four matches have produced over 2.5 goals. Going into this game Huddersfield Town have two clean sheets in the last five matches and in their record against Bournemouth, they’ll need to do better. In the last 10 matches against Bournemouth, Huddersfield Town have managed just one win.
In the last 10 meetings with Huddersfield Town, Bournemouth have managed eight wins and lost just once. In each of the last five meetings, Bournemouth have emerged winners, the most recent a 3-0 victory. Dominic Solanke scored twice in that game - his fourth and fifth goals against Huddersfield Town in the last three meetings. They will be confident heading into this game based not just on their head to head returns against Huddersfield Town but also being second with three games in hand against Huddersfield Town. Bournemouth are coming from a 1-1 draw with struggling Reading, and one of the best qualities they take to this game is their scoring run, having failed to score in just two of the last 10. In their last five away matches, four have ended in over 2.5 goals.
Bournemouth have an edge over Huddersfield Town and will be looking to continue with this dominance. One thing about these two sides though, as seen in their recent matches, is that they have the goals. Their recent matches have posted high scores and we will be going for over 2.5 goals here.