keith margam
Vital Football Legend
After our somewhat fortuitous win against Forest mid-week, we’re in Yorkshire once again on Saturday, this time it’s the John Smiths Stadium, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, which is 15 miles south-west of Leeds and a 432 mile round trip by road from Swansea’s Liberty Stadium.
Last October Huddersfield inflicted on us our first and only home defeat of the season to date, which ended our unbeaten start, losing 1-2 at the Liberty.
Swansea were the better side in the first half yet found themselves trailing when Harry Toffolo struck from a well-worked corner.
Andre Ayew equalised with a penalty after Korey Smith was fouled, but it was Huddersfield who found a winner in a more even second half.
Koroma guided the ball home from the edge of the area to give Carlos Corberan's improving team a first away win of the campaign and seven points from their last three games. (Corberan was Leeds first team coach under Marcelo Bielsa last season).
Steve Cooper’s after match comments that day:
“The performance was good enough to win the game but we have conceded two really poor goals. The first was off a set-play when one or two people didn't do what they should be doing and the second, from the moment they got the ball to the moment they scored, we haven't laid a glove on them. It's everything I don't want the team to be out of possession. At the same time, we probably created the most clear-cut chances we’ve had in a game so far this season. We could easily have scored four or five. There were large parts of the performance that were good, but in the end that's why we lost the game."
Since then Huddersfield have struggled especially away from home with 2 wins in 15 matches. They are a bit stronger at home with 7 wins and 6 defeats in 15 matches, but haven’t won on home soil since 29 Dec, a 2-1 win over Blackburn.
Last October Huddersfield inflicted on us our first and only home defeat of the season to date, which ended our unbeaten start, losing 1-2 at the Liberty.
Swansea were the better side in the first half yet found themselves trailing when Harry Toffolo struck from a well-worked corner.
Andre Ayew equalised with a penalty after Korey Smith was fouled, but it was Huddersfield who found a winner in a more even second half.
Koroma guided the ball home from the edge of the area to give Carlos Corberan's improving team a first away win of the campaign and seven points from their last three games. (Corberan was Leeds first team coach under Marcelo Bielsa last season).
Steve Cooper’s after match comments that day:
“The performance was good enough to win the game but we have conceded two really poor goals. The first was off a set-play when one or two people didn't do what they should be doing and the second, from the moment they got the ball to the moment they scored, we haven't laid a glove on them. It's everything I don't want the team to be out of possession. At the same time, we probably created the most clear-cut chances we’ve had in a game so far this season. We could easily have scored four or five. There were large parts of the performance that were good, but in the end that's why we lost the game."
Since then Huddersfield have struggled especially away from home with 2 wins in 15 matches. They are a bit stronger at home with 7 wins and 6 defeats in 15 matches, but haven’t won on home soil since 29 Dec, a 2-1 win over Blackburn.
