Five conclusions as Huddersfield Town show Andre Breitenreiter job ahead

The incoming head coach watched from the stands as the Terriers laboured to an injury time equaliser only to blow it moments later

1. How costly might that be?

When Darren Moore was sacked on 29th January, Huddersfield Town were three points clear of Queens Park Rangers and six clear of Sheffield Wednesday. Now, for all the praise we have given to Jon Worthington and his side throughout his caretaker spell, they will begin the Andre Breitenreiter era with both sides one point closer.

Millwall’s ongoing dreadful run of form and placement between Town and the drop zone offers some succour, but it just goes to show that it really is only points that matter at this stage.

So it sticks in the craw that Town, after 85 minutes of pushing and pushing to get an equaliser, finally succeeded through Jack Rudoni’s unstoppably powerful effort…only to chuck it all away in such cheap, avoidable fashion.

In some parallel timeline, we are sitting here giving Town praise for their determination and ability to push through a poor start to the game, keep plugging away, and get their rewards. Four points from these games against two play-off contenders, Sunderland and Hull, would have been an acceptable return. Three, however, feels deficient – especially when two of the bottom three simultaneously claimed victory.

It’s disappointing to see the momentum Town had generated brought to a halt in this manner – particularly when they only had to see out two more minutes of action to take a vital point. The fact it was Hull that inflicted it on them, for the second time this season, served as a stark reminder that this remains a side with issues that need to be resolved.

Lest it go unsaid, we should reiterate (as we did after the Sunderland game) that the season-long problem of lacking the savviness to see out results is perhaps the biggest of those issues right now.

This season Town have dropped points in the 90th minute and beyond to Hull (twice), Swansea, QPR and Southampton. If they had held on to just half of those seven or nine dropped points, they’d now be 16th and ensconced in mid-table, instead of 20th and just two points away from the relegation zone.