Five conclusions on Huddersfield Town's redemption and Delano Burgzorg's ascent

Blackburn Rovers were comfortably seen off by a much-improved performance thanks to some canny managerial tweaks and good individual showings

1. Huddersfield Town had an afternoon of setting things right

It’s just as well that you expect to tackle plenty of leftovers on Boxing Day, because Darren Moore has heated up our words from Saturday afternoon and fed them back to us on his special best Christmas crockery.

Having complained so loudly and lengthily about how that 3-5-2 system does nothing for this side, Moore kept the faith with his favoured shape and was rewarded with a victory and a performance that demonstrated exactly what he wants his side to do when playing in this system.

That was just the tone-setter for a game in which redemption emerged as as key theme throughout.

Jaheim Headley received our harshest criticism at Carrow Road at the weekend, but scored the opener in trademark fashion here, helped by Blackburn having seemingly selected Arnold Judas Rimmer in goal.¹

Next: Ben Wiles, introduced in the only change to the starting line-up, had head and shoulders his best game in a blue and white shirt. Had you been a visitor to the John Smith’s Stadium for the first time this season, you would have picked Wiles as Town’s midfield talisman and not Jack Rudoni, such was his work rate off the ball and influence on it.

Sorba Thomas, exiled to Blackburn last season only to find himself dropped and publicly criticised by Jon Dahl Tomasson as Rovers slid out of the promotion race, was clearly on a mission to stick it to his former club and former boss.

He got that sweet revenge by assisting Headley’s opener and then putting away the second; when his number went up to signal his withdrawal to the bench, he practically had to be restrained and carried from the pitch, such was his desire to inflict further punishment.

Then of course, Delano Burgzorg, who could probably at best have been described as mercurial and at worst has actively ruined the Town attack.

The Dutchman has shown signs of becoming more of a team player over the past few weeks, and here finally married that up with his standing as the only player in this squad with any genuine flair. We will get onto his impact in greater detail later, but for now let’s just say that his frustrating moments are infinitely easier to bear when they come after he’s already assisted one goal and scored another.