Huddersfield Town vs Reading FC: Squad Selector Results

A week ago we asked you who you would pick to start in this afternoon's Championship play-off final. Over 200 of you answered, and here are the results...

The Starting XI

Based on your selections, it seems that most people opted to go with a three/five at the back formation.

Having played every minute in the Championship this season, Ali Al-Habsi (97.5% of votes) was the obvious choice in goal. I imagine the 2.5% of you who picked George Legg or Anssi Jaakkola were pulling our leg!

In defence, Liam Moore (97.9%), Chris Gunter (97.1%), Jordan Obita (89.9%) and Tiago Ilori (87.4%) were the overwhelming victors in the poll. However, we do wait to see whether Obita will be fit after the injury he picked up at the end of the semi-final first leg. The final spot in the backline was slightly more hotly contested, but Tyler Blackett (67.6%) proved more popular than Joey van den Berg (42.9%).

You opted for the same midfield three that started the second leg against Fulham, with Danny Williams (95%) and George Evans (63.9%) comfortably earning spots in the XI. John Swift (58.8%) however only just makes it in, narrowly beating Liam Kelly by five votes.

There was one very easy choice upfront and that was obviously Yann Kermorgant (96.2%), whose penalty secured a spot at Wembley. You have opted to partner the Frenchman with Garath McCleary (57.6%), who is not naturally a striker but did play there earlier in the season and did get more votes than Lewis Grabban (42.4%), who appears not to have fully won over the fanbase in his loan spell from Bournemouth.

Substitutes Bench

As much as Al-Habsi was convincingly the most popular starting goalkeeper, Anssi Jaakkola (96.6%) won the substitute stopper vote by a landslide.

There were then six outfield players who finished comfortably ahead of any other potential substitutes: Joseph Mendes (79.8%), Roy Beerens (75.6%), Joey van den Berg (53.8%), Lewis Grabban (49.6%), Liam Kelly (41.2%) and Adrian Popa (36.1%). Although van den Berg is the only defender in that group, Popa has filled in as a right wing-back previously.

How they line-up

Substitutes: Jaakkola, van den Berg, Popa, Kelly, Beerens, Grabban, Mendes