In the penultimate fixture of the regular season, Bristol City host Huddersfield Town at Ashton Gate. Following a 2-1 victory in the reverse fixture, Bristol City will be hoping to inflict further damage and take three points off the West Yorkshire side.

Reflecting on the season so far, both teams shared a similar journey. Both teams were tipped to struggle at the beginning of the campaign and both sides had a difficult first half of the season which led to changes managerially on both sides.

Lee Johnson came into Bristol City and gave the injection of charisma and youthful enthusiasm needed. David Wagner, on the other hand, brought in a completely different footballing philosophy for Huddersfield to implement both on and off the field.

There's seeming optimism for these sides on the back of a strong second half to the season and both sides will be hoping to finish as high up in the table to provide momentum and morale for next season.

Although neither side particularly has anything to play for as they sit comfortably in mid-table with the play-off positions seemingly finalised and the relegation places also finalised leaves both clubs with nothing to play for.

However at the same time, this could be the time where players can play with freedom as they're no longer shackled with the responsibility of a result-driven mindset and they can let their creativity flow on the field.

Neither manager will allow their players to let their mind wander to the summer and beyond and because of that, I'm expecting an intriguing battle of two clearly significant styles which will match up well.

This article looks at THREE things to look out for in the Bristol City vs Huddersfield Town match.......

1) A tale of two surprise packages

Although the household names and players carrying high price tags are at the top of the goalscoring charts. Two of the surprise packages this season have been Jonathan Kodjia and Nahki Wells.

The Ivorian and Bermudian have taken different paths to reach their respective clubs. Kodjia plying his trade with Angers in France before joining Bristol City and Nahki Wells who is more familiar, moving up the leagues with Bradford City before joining Huddersfield Town.

One similarity between the two players is that both have scored 17 goals for their respective sides this season and have been instrumental in their club's survival and success and if Bristol City and Huddersfield Town can hold onto Kodjia and Wells despite attention from Premier League clubs such as Southampton and soon to be Championship side Aston Villa looking at both strikers.

Saturday will be interesting as the two strikers go head to head, albeit at different ends of the pitch, the style of the two strikers will pose different problems for each defence as Wells will look to use his speed and agility to exploit the space behind the back four. Whereas Kodjia will look to use his physicality to muscle his way through Huddersfield's defence.

Also as it is towards the end of season and pressure wears off, both strikers will be looking to strike and to reach the twenty goal tally which would be unusual, other than for Fulham's Ross McCormack to reach such a total despite playing for a table that currently sits in the bottom half of the table.

As Kodjia scored in the reverse fixture, Nahki Wells will be hoping to seek some personal revenge and score himself at Ashton Gate against a defence that has conceded 70 goals over the course of the season.

Also, the absence of Aden Flint could be a big loss for the Robins who could leapfrog Huddersfield with a victory.

2) Set-pieces may make all the difference

As the reverse fixture showed, in crucial games and tight Championship battles, set pieces can make all the difference.

Jonathan Kodjia and Aden Flint made the most of Huddersfield's soft underbelly as they punished their inability to deal with set-pieces and with someone of Luke Freeman's quality, it will cause issues for the West Yorkshire defence.

The reverse fixture in December saw Kodjia convert a Marlon Pack free-kick with relative ease and Aden Flint also scored a superb header, albeit Huddersfield's defence was guilty of ball watching as a clever free kick found Flint in space and he showed his aerial ability to power it into the net.

Since the defeat, there have been other instances, notably, Burnley at home saw Huddersfield concede twice from set pieces and David Wagner will be hoping that he can marshall the defence in training to deal with the issues that a physical Bristol City side will pose.

As a relatively small side as Wagner has looked to create a pool of technically gifted players that can play his style of football, there has been issues against physical sides and subsequently defensively from set-pieces.

Having said that, Huddersfield themselves have seen an improvement particularly with corners and the chances they have been creating, Emyr Huws having two point-blank headers spectacularly saved in two consecutive home matches against Hull City and Birmingham City show that Huddersfield can carve teams open with fast fluent attacking football and counter attacks but also through set-pieces and the battle for supremacy in those situations may be the difference.

3) An Away win?

Despite both clubs being safe, Wagner has continued to produce performances on a consistent basis and as Huddersfield have a considerably better away record than their home record, they seem to be able to play with more freedom and exploit space away rather than at home.

Huddersfield has picked up 6 wins and 6 draws and are just below the top half for points accumulated away from home but have struggled to pick up the wins at home as teams sit deep and spring on the counter.

Bristol City, on the other hand, have had a similar problem to Huddersfield in that they've struggled at home and have only accumulated more points at home than the relegated trio of Charlton, MK Dons and Bolton Wanderers.

With Huddersfield going into the game unbeaten in 4, they will be high on confidence and have been unlucky to not beat Rotherham after a strong second half performance, they will hope to rectify it with a result that has matched recent performances.

It may come down to which side is more clinical in front of goal and considering Emyr Huws failed to convert a penalty and Huddersfield struggled to finish a string of chances in the reverse fixture, this may be the perfect opportunity for them to share three points with Bristol City over the course of the season.

It may depend however on the battle between Wells and Kodjia and which has a bigger impact on the game and more crucially for me which team can make the most of the set piece opportunities and which team can defend more resolutely.

Bristol City and Huddersfield fans...What are your predictions for the match? Where can Bristol City aim to finish next season? Will David Wagner lead Huddersfield to the play-offs next year? Let us know what you think in the comments below!