Five conclusions: Another home game without scoring for Huddersfield Town...but why?

That’s four straight home games without a goal for Michael Duff’s side, with a range of issues contributing to their struggles in attack

1. Why can’t Town score at home?

Huddersfield Town have now gone four home games without scoring. In those matches they’ve had 60 shots, with only 16 of those ending up on target. The combination of injuries and poor quality chance creation has built up to the point where it’s killing Town.

Callum Marshall and Freddie Ladapo were the only two players to register shots on target from inside the box against Reading. Neither effort troubled goalkeeper Joel Pereira. Dion Charles had three shots in total, all wide to the right of the goal.

In his post-match press conference, Michael Duff said: “We got into really good areas of the pitch a lot. The final ball, the run — we just couldn’t find that moment of quality.

“We got a little bit too desperate too quickly. We started going back to front, and we got in by playing through them, and then we started going a little bit too long and the game became stretched.

“Up until the Blackpool game — I don’t know the stats since — we were top of the xG league and we had created the most big chances in the league, but also missed the most big chances in the league.

“We have created chances, but we haven’t in the last three or four games, which would be the criticism.”

Town look uncomfortable as soon as they get into the final third. They had eight shots in each half, but none of them looked as if they were going to end up in the net. Everyone in the team, particularly the forwards, seems desperate to score a goal. Unfortunately, they are snatching at opportunities and taking wild shots that have little chance of going in.