Huddersfield Town must overcome issue that has plagued them all season to beat Luton Town

Carlos Corberan is backing his side to recover and be ready to go again despite the tight turnaround between the two legs of the play-off semi final against Luton Town and the late night his players had after travelling back to West Yorkshire on Friday night.

There have been occasions this season when Huddersfield Town have struggled in games that have come just a few days after a midweek away trip, as Harry Toffolo highlighted when asked about the fitness side of the game earlier this season.

They ran out of steam away to Cardiff having visited Peterborough on the Tuesday earlier that week; put in perhaps their worst performance of the season, a 1-2 home loss to Middlesbrough on a Saturday later in November, came immediately following a long trip to face QPR on the Wednesday night; and their last loss, a 0-3 home defeat to Bournemouth in March, came just a few days after a testing trip to Millwall.

Toffolo commented "It’s probably no coincidence those games (Middlesbrough and Bournemouth) finished the way they did. It just shows you the mental side of it and the physical side of it, what it can have to take its toll on a player.”

But asked soon after Friday’s final whistle if that record prompted any concern, Corberan said: “No, no, it is what it is. What we need to do is recover in the best way we can recover and arrive home as fast as we can arrive to sleep the most hours we can sleep, and then recover and prepare the players who didn’t play to be ready for the next game.”

Corberan is usually more open than most managers about the availability of his squad, but with everything that is at stake in the second leg he chose to be tight-lipped about his selection intentions for Monday night.

The head coach said: “I don’t