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Wallace overlooked, a battling performance, window shopping & softball interviews – Notes on Huddersfield Town’s 1-1 draw with Lincoln

Wallace overlooked, a battling performance, window shopping & softball interviews – Notes on Huddersfield Town’s 1-1 draw with Lincoln

Matches, Notes
Huddersfield Town managed to come away from Sincil Bank with a point following their 1-1 draw with Lincoln. You can question whether a team with our aspirations should be satisfied scraping a draw against Lincoln but that mentality wouldn't acknowledge the quality Lincoln play with, their current run of excellent form and that we can't expect teams to roll over for us just because we're Huddersfield Town. Lincoln carved us open time after time in the first half but wayward finishing and good work from Nicholls kept us in the game. We then grew into the game in the second half, taking the lead through Leo Castledine before being pegged back thanks to being outmuscled at a set piece. A fair result and decent performance, even if both could have been better. Alfie May looked like he was...
Huddersfield Town claw back a point in spite of the ref – Notes on the 2-2 draw with Lincoln

Huddersfield Town claw back a point in spite of the ref – Notes on the 2-2 draw with Lincoln

Matches
Huddersfield Town returned from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Lincoln City on Saturday afternoon. As you might expect from the way the scores seesawed, we saw plenty of good and bad from Town on the afternoon but overall a draw seemed about right in the end. While Lincoln were impressive in the first half and Town couldn’t cope with them, the opposite was true of the second half. If only there was a popular expression in football to describe when the game is vastly different in one half to the other! With the points being shared and the performance from Town featuring a bit of everything, fans can take away pretty much what they want from this game. Dwell on the horrors of our limp first half and it’ll feel like we’ve thrown away a potential victory against a team that came into the g...