Aiming to bounce back from consecutive defeats and remain in the top six of the League One table, Huddersfield Town will travel to the Lamex Stadium on Saturday to take on Stevenage.
The visitors now sit just two points ahead of the chasing pack in fifth spot, while their visitors returned to the top half with a victory last weekend.
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Stevenage head into the weekend aiming to make it back-to-back League One victories, having ended a tough run with a return to winning ways last weekend.
In their first season back under the management of Alex Revell, they sat in a competitive position in the playoff race on 40 points from 27 outings, following three straight victories across late January and early February.
The Boro then saw their top-six hopes all but dashed, though, as their next four outings produced just one more point, with a draw against struggling Peterborough United coming between defeats to Charlton Athletic and relegation-threatened Crawley Town and Burton Albion.
Having then dropped into the bottom half, Revell's men most recently visited 23rd-placed Shrewsbury Town on Saturday and succeeded in ending their winless streak, as an early Aaron Pierre own goal made the only difference in a 1-0 away triumph.
Thanks to that victory, Stevenage have returned to the top half, and now trailing the top six by nine points with 14 games left to play, they know any faint hopes of staying in the playoff race are heavily reliant on extending a winning run in the coming weeks.
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Their visitors, meanwhile, head to the Lamex Stadium hoping to keep the top six's chasing pack at bay in the midst of a dip in form.
Searching for an immediate return to the Championship under the new management of Michael Duff this season, Huddersfield Town sat firmly in the automatic promotion race in mid-January on 48 points from 25 matches, but they have since added just seven more points to that tally in eight further attempts.
Those points came from a draw with Reading and consecutive victories over Barnsley and Shrewsbury Town after three straight defeats, but they have failed to extend that improvement, firstly seeing the unbeaten run ended in a 1-0 loss to Peterborough United last weekend.
A trip to Wigan Athletic then followed on Tuesday, and Duff's side again came away empty-handed, having fallen 2-0 down to goals from Dale Taylor and Owen Dale and failing to find a leveller after Callum Marshall halved the deficit in the 50th minute.
Having all but dropped out of the top-two race as a result of their dip in form, and now sitting fifth and only leading seventh and eighth spots by two points, Huddersfield Town will be desperate to correct their form at the weekend and return to winning ways to solidify their standing in the playoff places.
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Stevenage could be unchanged from last week's 1-0 victory over Shrewsbury Town, with Luther James-Wildin, Dan Butler, Jake Forster-Caskey and Louis Appere set to remain sidelined by injuries.
Jake Young will hope to return and lead the line from the start but could again settle for a place on the bench behind January loan arrival Brandon Hanlan, while Dan Kemp is a key man in the attacking unit having netted a team-high tally of 10 goals this term.
Behind Kemp, Jordan Roberts and Kyle Edwards, Harvey White and Louis Thompson will again line up in the midfield, while Dan Sweeney and Carl Piergianni will continue at the heart of a back four despite competition from Charlie Goode.
Huddersfield Town continue to deal with an unenviable injury list, as defenders Tom Lees, Matty Pearson, Radinio Balker and Mickel Miller are set to remain confined to the treatment room alongside midfielders Jonathan Hogg and Herbie Kane and attackers Joe Taylor, Rhys Healey and Danny Ward.
Midfielder David Kasumu also left the pitch with a concern against Wigan in midweek and could drop out, leaving Joe Hodge to join Ben Wiles and Antony Evans in the engine room on Saturday, while Nigel Lonwijk and Brodie Spencer should continue in a makeshift centre-back partnership given the extensive injuries.
Despite the losses in attack, the Terriers still have competition for places, with winger Tawanda Chirewa and striker Freddie Ladapo hoping to come in from the start after joint-top scorers Josh Koroma and Callum Marshall supported Dion Charles last time out.
Stevenage possible starting lineup:
Cooper; Freeman, Sweeney, Piergianni, Freestone; White, Thompson; Roberts, Kemp, Edwards; Hanlan
Huddersfield Town possible starting lineup:
Nicholls; Sorensen, Spencer, Lonwijk, Ruffels; Evans, Hodge; Koroma, Wiles, Marshall; Ladapo
We say: Stevenage 1-1 Huddersfield Town
While Stevenage's narrow victory over struggling Shrewsbury Town last time out was not overly convincing, they did again show the steel which could see them frustrate an out-of-sorts Huddersfield Town side on home turf at the weekend.
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Sam Varley
