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Remaining Huddersfield fans in ‘half full’ stadium stay behind to boo after defeat to Peterborough

The remaining Huddersfield fans in the ‘half full’ John Smith’s Stadium stay behind to boo after a 1-0 defeat to Peterborough on Saturday.

Hector Kyprianou scored the only goal of the game to end the Posh’s 13-game away league winless run while also frustrating promotion hopefuls Huddersfield.

Peterborough’s win at the Terriers means they stay above Burton Albion whose remarkable run of form continues with a 1-0 win at Lincoln. Huddersfield meanwhile couldn’t close the gap on the those a bit ahead of them in the League One automatic promotion places.

Huddersfield Head Coach Michael Duff said, per Huddersfield Live: “I won’t try and mask it. The performance was nowhere near the required levels and that hasn’t happened that many times. We were beaten by the better team today unfortunately.

“It looked like there was a real lack of energy from us from the first minute. I don’t know if it’s the injuries that are catching up with us, but we are not delusional. We haven’t scored a goal at home for a long time and we are fully aware of that. The performance was inexcusable.

“There’s obviously a little bit of apprehension in the team. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that. They do care. And it’s not easy. It’s a difficult place to play at the minute. We are fifth in the league and it feels like the end of the world. We are trying to free them up a little bit.

“The supporters are clearly frustrated and it’s just a negative spiral. And it’s our job to get supporters out of their seats so that’s not me putting it on the supporters at all. We need to be better and give them more to cheer about..

“Today we were outplayed and we deserved to lose.”

Peterborough boss Darren Ferguson said per Peterborough Today: “The win was great and much-needed. And the way we went about it was very pleasing. To play with such confidence and with such bravery in possession considering where we are in the table was simply outstanding. Our first-half display was the best I’ve seen from us for a very long time. You would not have known which team was chasing promotion and which team was fighting against relegation. It was a carbon copy of how we played last season.

“The only disappointment was not winning by more and I doubt anyone watching would have said we didn’t deserve it. We had so many good positions in transition we really should have killed the game off, but the players were very good overall and I’m delighted for them as they’d had a tough season. I was also delighted for the fans who haven’t had a lot to cheer about away from home, but they again travelled in great numbers and I’m sure they would have enjoyed what they saw.

“We had to deal with a bit of pressure in the second-half, but we put our bodies on the line which is what we have to do in our position. It’s an important result for us, but we have to make sure it is not a false dawn. We have to back it up. A good week can change the whole season for us. I felt we should have won at Stevenage last week, but we were much better today. We played with confidence and used the big pitch well. If we play like this regularly we will not be going down,

“Everyone contributed. Brad Ihionvien was a real nuisance when he went on. He gives us something different and he was at it today which I need to see more often.

“James Dornelly came in and he was very good. He’s learnt a bit from Carl Johnston in how aggressive I want him to be. He was up against a good player today and didn’t give him a kick. I was very pleased with him.”

Twitter users reacted as remaining Huddersfield fans in a ‘half full’ stadium stay behind to boo after defeat to Peterborough…

@Kyle_Irving20: Cheers lads, no away win since august 24th or away clean sheet all season.

@YorkshirePundit: Needs to be a sacking this week. Either Cartwright or Duff. Ideally both. Top bosses Nagle and Edwards need to show they understand and that they will implement change. This isn’t good enough.

@vvillharris: On the second highest budget in the league I don’t know how we’ve cobbled together the biggest set of wasters going. We sold our best player in January because we had plenty of cover and now we have 0 CBs fit. They’ve not won in 10 away then come and face us not have a SOT. Awful

@awaydaytown: Most boring and passionless football I’ve witnessed in 40 years of going.

@Danielpitt__92: Should have sacked Duff a month ago. Absolutely terrible football with no attacking intent or purpose.

@AlexNoctaris: No shots on target at home against the leakiest defence in the division. Last 2 results papered over the cracks, but the reality is, something has to change immediately.

@stevvy1986: 5 home games without a goal, and the last 4 we haven’t even looked like scoring, barely had a half chance worthy of the name in the last 4 home games

@bradt_bwfc: Dion Charles turned up yet?

@thomaas1996: I want to see that corner flag immediately

@Holbers88: Please for the love of god can we see the corner flag. The happy clappers can defend this team all they want but this is honestly some of the worst football we’ve ever seen at town. Laughing stock from top to bottom 👍

@PetchaayBoi: Worst Performance of the Season… Takes some doing, there’s been some SHOCKERS!!

@jgkenworthy: Breaks my heart to see this club going back almost 2 decades. I’d rather watch Andy Ritchie’s town team with Malvin Kamara and Luke Beckett

@eamonnduff: Remember Huddersfield Town fans…always ‘BELIEVE’ 🤣

@NETerrier: These players are not fit to wear the shirt, and one man leading the recruitment team put them there.

@NobleofLiam: Another 90 mins at home, another game without a goal at home, another game without a shot on target! Lost for words, that was diabolical! Finishing the game with a CM and a RB in defence tells you everything.

@Taylor24657215: Can’t blame no one bar the players and they way they been set up by duff not one person out there today cared or had the effort to run and actually put them selfs into the game looked better with Evan’s on but Jesus wept man that was embarrassing

@Minnylad: Pathetic that. Where are the leaders on the pitch? No one is encouraging/bollocking when it’s needed. They just don’t look to care! Should have cleared a lot of the deadwood of last year out. It’s starting to cost us

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