Huddersfield Town will not risk criticism with FA Cup selection, says Michael Duff

Michael Duff says Huddersfield Town will not leave them open to criticism with the team they pick for Friday's televised FA Cup first round tie at Tamworth.

The BBC cameras will be at The Lamb Ground, and they will be there in the hope of seeing an upset as the Conference side host League One opposition.

Tamworth play on an artificial surface, which the Terriers are preparing for by training at Bradford (Park Avenue), and that will come into Duff's thinking but not resting players and taking the opposition lightly.

"There'll be no rotations," he insisted. "Any team we pick we want to win the game.

"We want to take the competition properly. We've just got to a point where we're five unbeaten and we've managed to reverse a horrible run..

"We're in front of the cameras it's the FA Cup, we're away from home on a plastic pitch. We don't want to encourage criticism by saying we took the game lightly. That won't be the case at all.

"There might be a couple we change based on old injuries and playing on a different surface for protection, not rotation."

With regards to injuries, Duff has a strong hand to pick from.

RESPECT: Huddersfield Town manager Michael Duff (Image: Bruce Rollinson)placeholder image
RESPECT: Huddersfield Town manager Michael Duff (Image: Bruce Rollinson)

"Antony Evans got a bit of a bang on his toe, which is a bit sore at the minute," he said Michael Duff. "Other than that, everyone else came through the game.

"Josh Koroma comes back into the thinking, he's trained with us today so whether he's ready to start or not but it's nice to have him back in the group because there's more competition for places.

"Other than that, a fairly clean bill of health."

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