Five overlooked Huddersfield Town players who can still make and impact in promotion push

Huddersfield Town have just seven games left in their season unless they do well enough in those matches to earn themselves an eight, nine and hopefully tenth come May, and head coach Carlos Corberan will want to see all of his players at their best for this final push over the line.

The Terriers currently sit in fourth place but after just one point from their last three games, that position is under threat. Fortunately, Corberan has two weeks on the training pitch to get rest and renewed vigour into tired legs – and to have a real proper look at some of the fringe players who have not been involved lately.

There is a lot of talent among those players if Corberan can get those players involved – here are a few who need to show the gaffer they can do a job for him starting with Hull City on Friday 1st April.

We can’t imagine Carel Eiting quite had this in mind when he had his contract with Genk terminated on transfer deadline day so he could return to the John Smith’s Stadium. The rapturous reception that greeted his return has been followed up by limited opportunities to show what he can do, with the midfielder still yet to make a league start.

Perhaps the emergence of Jon Russell just came at an inconvenient moment for the Dutchman, but so far we’ve only seen him make four substitute appearances in the Championship plus a pair of FA Cup starts. A cut on his foot was accountable for Eiting missing the game against Millwall, but otherwise he has been fit; he’s simply not made it off the bench since playing Nottingham Forest.

Even more perplexing is that that’s despite Corberan declaring himself to be pleased with what he had seen from the Dutchman both in that game and against Peterborough. With Town needing to