Five conclusions as grim night in Cardiff leaves Huddersfield Town worried

Andre Breitenreiter's side were a shadow of what they had been in recent weeks as old issues came to fore once again

1. Andre Breitenreiter had no answer to Huddersfield’s Achilles’ heel

There are horror films, the lesser kind, that rely on jump scares – effectively monsters jumping out and shouting ‘boo!’ – to elicit cheap fear and thrills from the audience. And there’s the better kind of horror film, which is all about building the tension, building the suspense, creating an atmosphere of ‘oh no, things are going to go badly wrong here’.

This was the second kind. The moment you saw the way Cardiff were approaching the game off the ball, you just knew it was going to be the kind of game Huddersfield Town most hate playing.

You could practically hear the ominous music playing for the first 15 minutes as all the plot points were established.

Cardiff had little interest in trying to win the ball inside the Town half, instead keeping all 11 players inside their own, staring Matty Pearson, Tom Lees and Michal Helik in the face from the halfway line and saying “go on, try to make something happen from there.”

If you look closely you will see this is in fact an animated gif. Source: iFollow