KEEPER LEE BIDS TO SAVE TERRIERS

KEEPER Lee Nicholls believes Huddersfield Town have proven they’re a “hard team to beat” during 2023-24 – but must now turn draws into wins to secure Championship survival.

- Dave Flett

The Terriers sit third-bottom in the relegation zone on goal difference despite a record of 15 defeats being one fewer than top-10 play-off hopefuls Middlesbrough.

But a division high of 15 draws has left the West Yorkshire outfit embroiled in a dogfight involving at least nine teams going into the final six weeks of the campaign.

Against those other eight struggling sides, Huddersfield have lost just two from 13 contests this term and Nicholls told The FLP: “We’ve not lost too many games, so we’ve already proven that we’re a hard team to beat, but now we’ve got to try and turn the draws into wins.

“The Championship is a strange old league. There are four clubs going for automatic promotion, even more going for the play-offs, then even more again that are involved in the relegation fight, so I think, if we can string a couple of wins together, that would go a long way to getting some confidence in and around the place and moving up the table.”