We’ll fight to the end – Huddersfield won’t give up on play-off dream after draw

Interim head coach Martin Drury insists Huddersfield will keep fighting for a play-off spot after they rescued a late 1-1 draw against Reading.

Lasse Sorensen scored a last-gasp equaliser in a 1-1 draw as the Terriers stretched their unbeaten home run to 13 games, with Lewis Wing giving Reading the lead from the penalty spot before half-time.

Defeat would have seen them fall six points behind sixth-placed Reading, but Drury believes defeats elsewhere for Wycombe and Plymouth show why Huddersfield should remain in the conversation.

Drury said: “I’ve seen football for too many years to know things change. There are six games left, and today everyone around us has dropped points, so we’re still four points off with a game in hand.

“Nothing’s changed — we’ve just got one less game to make up the ground. I’m glass half full — we’ll fight all the way to the end. If we get there, great; if we don’t, it won’t be for a lack of trying.

“I felt first half, in terms of our objectives and what we were trying to achieve going into the game, the players implemented it really, really well.

“We’ve got to remember Reading are a really good side — they dominate possession in most of their games, create numerous opportunities to score goals, and have been on a brilliant run.

“So for us to control and dominate the first half within their half for the majority of it was pleasing.

“I would have liked us to be a little bit more aggressive in the final third when we got there, but in terms of nullifying what they were and putting the game in our favour, I felt the players did that exceptionally well.”

Reading boss Leam Richardson, meanwhile, conceded that a draw was probably the right result in the end, despite the disappointment of conceding in the sixth minute of second-half stoppage time.

He said: “If it’d been the other way around, we’d all feel elated now. I think a point away from home at this level is huge — it’s just the manner of it, isn’t it, with 30 seconds to go.

“But on balance, in the first half, with the conditions and the wind, I thought they probably had control a little bit more than we did.

“Then second half we were excellent away from home, controlling the game like we did with and without the ball.

“If I want to be critical, we probably didn’t work the keeper enough in the second half to go and kill the game off. But I thought we controlled the second half and we’re disappointed in the manner of it.

“It’s another point on the board, another game. In my opinion, pound-for-pound, player-for-player, they’re up there with the Lutons, the Boltons, the Stockports in the division.

“So we go again — we’ll do the right things, make sure we cool down, nutrition, etc, because we’ve got a really good game on Monday.”