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"We know we have the ability to open teams up - especially on our own patch. We've had four games with Carlisle already this season so we are well aware of the dangers they pose. But we weren't at the races in the first leg, and it's up to us as a group to show what we are really about.
"Nobody expects us to do it - the television didn't bother with us even though they showed Brentford and Exeter in the first leg as well. But we still believe we have a chance of getting to Wembley and we're ready to give it a real go tonight."
In team news for Huddersfield this evening they have plenty of injury problems going into the game with first-choice goalkeeper Alex Smithies sidelined for up to two months from now following a recent knee operation. While influential midfielder, and Plymouth season-long loanee Damien Johnson, is out after suffering cruciate ligament damage in his knee in early December which will see him absent for the rest of the campaign.
The home side are also without centre-half Tom Clarke who twisted his ankle in the Arsenal FA Cup defeat last month and he will now miss a few weeks of action. Also missing this evening are Town's top scorer Jordan Rhodes who has been ruled out until at the least end of this month with an ankle injury, while Newcastle-loanee left-sided defender Tamas Kadar is looking at the same timespan on the back of a serious hamstring tear.
The final pair of Terriers who will be absent at the Galpharm Stadium tonight being 19-year old Academy product Liam Ridehalgh, the left-back being sidelined with glandular fever, while Arsenal-loanee frontman Benik Afobe, who is 18 on Saturday, will also be missing with a knee injury.
The referee for tonight's match is Steve Tanner from Bristol and he will be assisted down the lines by Gary Beswick from Newton Aycliffe in County Durham and Gary Stott from Eccles in Greater Manchester. Meanwhile the fourth official is Scott Mathieson from Stockport.
The set of officials responsible for after the game overseeing a penalty shootout if the scores finish level on aggregate after 90 minutes. The rules in the tie being that away goals do not count double and that there is no extra-time.