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Aaron Mooy, Huddersfield, Premier League news: David Wagner

AARON Mooy is set to debut in the Premier League, and coach David Wagner has outlined the Terriers’ plan for their season in the to-flight.

Huddersfield Town's Australian midfielder Aaron Mooy.
Huddersfield Town's Australian midfielder Aaron Mooy.

DAVID Wagner insists Huddersfield will begin their first Premier League campaign with no fear, having already proven “the impossible is possible” in reaching the top flight.

Now they sit alongside English football’s elite - a fact few believed possible throughout last season’s campaign - and they are the pre-season favourites with bookmakers to drop straight back down to the Championship.

However, Wagner believes last year’s achievement is evidence that his team, which features former Wanderers and Melbourne City midfielder Aaron Mooy, can defy the odds.

“We said this last season very often, over a long, long time, it’s unrealistic for Huddersfield Town to be in the Premier League,” the German said. “And then we said, ‘This is not possible’.

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“In football everything is possible. I think we’ve shown that even the impossible is possible in football.

“Now we have another task in front of us. A difficult task, of course. We are aware but it doesn’t change that we are ambitious.

“We are in this league because we are ambitious, even if we know the task is a difficult one.”

That challenge begins away at Crystal Palace on Saturday when Wagner and the majority of his squad step into the top flight for the first time.

“For me personally, I was more nervous when I arrived in England rather than now starting in the Premier League,” said Wagner, whose first game in charge of Sheffield Wednesday ended in a 3-1 loss in 2015.

Huddersfield Town's Welsh goalkeeper Danny Ward (centre left) and Huddersfield Town's German head coach David Wagner (centre right) hold up the Championship Playoff trophy.
Huddersfield Town's Welsh goalkeeper Danny Ward (centre left) and Huddersfield Town's German head coach David Wagner (centre right) hold up the Championship Playoff trophy.

“From the players’ point of view, yes. It’s more that I am interested in how they will react.

“We are totally inexperienced. Does it mean something in terms of the performance on Saturday?No. Did we have experience of the play-offs? No. But we did well.

“I am very happy to see on Saturday how they will react. With excitement, you usually are able to overperform and hopefully we can see this on Saturday.”

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