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[Official Site] Final Score: Huddersfield 1 Albion 2



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Right-back Hunt bursts into the Albion box and fires a low cross, but Novak stabs the ball narrowly wide of Brezovan's goal.
46: Second half is underway at the John Smith's Stadium and there were no half-time changes.HT: A Buckley braces gives Albion a half-time lead, while Barnes saw a goal chalked off for offside.
40: GOAL! Mackail-Smith released Buckley down the middle of the pitch, he turns Clarke inside out before firing the ball into the bottom left corner to double his tally for the afternoon.
38: Barnes gets the faintest of touches on Orlandi's free-kick to guide the ball into the goal but it's chalked off for offside.
34: Norwood picks out Church with a whipped cross from the right but the Reading loanee's header blazes over the bar from six yards.
29: Bridcutt's cross is not dealt with by the Huddersfield defence and is met at the back post by Buckley, but his shot is cleared off the line by Clarke.
16: A loose ball drops into the Huddersfield area and Barnes is quickest to react, but his 12-yard effort shaves the outside of the right post.
10: Bridcutt brings down Novak outside of the Albion's box, but Clayton's free-kick is easily claimed by Brezovan.
05: GOAL! Buckley opens the scoring for the Seagulls. Bruno played the ball to Buckley, he took a touch before finding the bottom right corner with his left foot.
03: Well worked free-kick and Orlandi picks out Mackail-Smith but the latter sees his shot flash wide.
01: Games underway at the John Smith's Stadium, where Albion were forced into a late change to the starting line-up. Kuszczak suffered an injury in the warm-up so Brezovan starts for the first time this season.
TEAM NEWS
Tomasz Kuszczak suffered an injury in the warm-up so Peter Brezovan starts.
Gus Poyet makes four changes to the side that drew 3-3 at Wolverhampton Wanderers last Saturday, which includes a recall for Marcos Painter.
The former Birmingham City defender starts for the first time since April, and replaces Wayne Bridge who misses out with a calf injury after he was withdrawn early at Molineux.
Elsewhere, Dean Hammond returns to the Albion midfield at the expense Andrew Crofts, while Will Buckley and Ashley Barnes are preferred to David Lopez and Stephen Dobbie respectively, in attack.
Meanwhile, Peter Brezovan has been named on the bench ahead of Casper Ankergren.
Terriers’ boss Simon Grayson makes three changes to the side that won 1-0 at Barnsley last weekend.
Striker Jermaine Beckford misses out with a hamstring injury he suffered at Oakwell and he is replaced by Danny Ward.
Oliver Norwood returns to the midfield at the expense of Sean Scannell and Jack Hunt replaces Tom Clarke in defence.
Former Albion defender Joel Lynch lines up in the heart of the Huddersfield defence following his summer move from Nottingham Forest.
TEAMS
Huddersfield Town: (4-4-2) Smithies; Hunt, Lynch, Clarke, Dixon; Clayton, Norwood (Arfield 75), Southern (Hammill 68), Ward; Novak (Lee 68), Church. Subs not used: Bennett (GK), Woods, Gerrard, Robinson.*


Albion: (4-3-3) Brezovan; Bruno, Greer, Dunk, Painter (Calderon 75); Bridcutt, Orlandi, Hammond; Buckley, Mackail-Smith (Hoskins 67), Barnes (Dicker 61). Subs not used: David, LuaLua, Dobbie.*
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