Preview: Cardiff City vs. Huddersfield Town – prediction, team news, lineups
Aiming to rebuild a lead over the bottom three in the Championship table, Huddersfield Town will travel to South Wales to take on Cardiff City on Wednesday.
Despite back-to-back positive results under the new management of Andre Breitenreiter, the visitors now only sit above the drop zone on goal difference, while their hosts have climbed up to 11th spot with consecutive wins
Cardiff City return to Wales on Wednesday with the aim of continuing an upturn in form and keeping any slender Championship playoff hopes alive, having bounced back from a tough spell with consecutive victories in recent weeks.
In what has certainly been an improved campaign on the whole since Erol Bulut‘s summer appointment, Cardiff City endured a tough run early in the New Year as a six-match span between mid-January and mid-February produced five defeats alongside a solitary win away at Watford, seeing them drop away from the top-six fight as a result.
The Bluebirds appear to have turned a corner since, though, firstly ending a run of three straight losses with a goalless draw at home to Blackburn Rovers, before hosting Stoke City and making a return to winning ways as Kion Etete and Karlan Grant netted first-half goals in a 2-1 triumph.
A trip to rivals Bristol City then followed on Saturday, and Bulut’s men took bragging rights and made it consecutive league wins for the first time since October, prevailing at Ashton Gate as Perry Ng netted the only goal of the contest soon after the hour mark.
Now with confidence restored in the camp and the gap up to the top six reduced to nine points with 11 games to go, albeit with several sides in between as they sit 11th, Cardiff City will aim to keep building momentum with a third straight victory on Wednesday to boost those slim hopes ahead of a tough test against promotion-chasing Ipswich Town at the weekend.
