In the West Yorkshire derby on Saturday lunchtime, Leeds easily prevailed 4-1, with all of the Terriers’ goals coming from the flanks. This continued the Terriers’ bad form.
Following his team’s 4-1 loss away at Elland Road, Terriers manager Darren Moore insisted he accepts “full responsibility” for his team’s most recent appalling performance and refused to point fingers at any specific person.
Huddersfield Town lost to promotion-chasing Leeds United 4 goals to 1, which is the third time in five games that Town has conceded four goals. Despite this, Town was expected to struggle to at least maintain a respectable scoreline. Particularly harsh criticism was directed at right-back Tom Edwards, who was on loan from Stoke City and appeared to be moving slowly against the highly effective Crysencio Summerville. On the other side, Yuta Nakayama did not fare much better against Dan James.
Moore said that although his team had trouble keeping up with Leeds’ quickness, he didn’t want to place all the blame at once. Together, we achieve successes, lose games together, and face setbacks as a unit. I prefer to remove labels and labels that I don’t like to apply to [individuals].
“I accept full responsibility for the team’s current state. The players, in my opinion, will make the team perform better, so they must and will. You’ve heard me say before that I think they’re a great group of players, but we need to see what kind of players they are on the training pitch.
“I know that the results will have an emotional impact, but we need to acknowledge that, put in the necessary work, and move past this bad week as soon as possible because the league table and the upcoming fixtures are approaching.”
Prior to the match, Josh Koroma and Jack Rudoni added to an already lengthy list of injuries, which prompted Moore to select Luke Daley and Tom Iorpenda from the academy to start on his bench for the trip to Elland Road. “We have eight injuries, and it’s not rocket science with what’s off the bench,” the manager remarked. Yesterday in training, we lost a couple, which required us to make a change or two. Still, I don’t want
With captain Jonathan Hogg serving a one-match suspension for his fifth yellow card of the season, the injury crisis will worsen against Watford. Moore continued, saying, “It goes us a week now to implement someone else in there and work with someone else in there with Hoggy suspended.” Just pass the reins to us, and we’ll continue.
