Five conclusions after Huddersfield Town's change of approach pays off big time

Jon Worthington's side delivered the club's biggest win in two and a half years thanks to a rampant second-half showing against Sheffield Wednesday

1. If you can’t be good, be clinical

Well…I think we all called that one at half-time, didn’t we?

Rubbish. Of course we didn’t. The opening 45 minutes was contested by two poor sides who both looked incapable of holding onto the ball for more than about two passes. The better openings belonged to the visitors, who forced Tom Lees to turn one effort over the bar with a smart block and Rhys Healey to head another off the line.

The opening exchanges after the break offered little in the way of an improvement – but for 12 blistering minutes, Town were unstoppably clinical.

In this division, and particularly in games like this, that is the most important thing you can possibly be. The fact that they were here despite their work on the ball lacking for such long periods was stark proof of that maxim, especially after weeks of doing almost the polar opposite.

Town were excellent value for their win by the end, ultimately delivering on Jon Worthington’s promise to remove the shackles and play the ball forward as quickly as possible. With Wednesday increasingly desperate to push men into the Town half on a vain salvage mission, that approach only paid off more and more.

We spoke in midweek about how the ability to be adaptable in the short-term should sit somewhere near the top of Town’s wishlist when it comes to appointing a new manager. This is exactly why.

2. Oh the irony

After months – no, years – of lamenting Town’s lack of an out-and-out striker, the big thing that changed this game in their favour was the forced departure of their shiny new centre-forwards.