It’s one El of a win for Wagner
® ELIAS KACHUNGA calmed Huddersfield’s promotion jitters with a crucial second-half strike.
Aaron Mooy kept up Town’s slim hopes of a top two finish by doubling the lead just four minutes later.
Then Nahki Wells made it three in seven minutes when he hammered home the third to stun Norwich.
David Wagner’s Town were desperate for a first win in three games and Wells should have put them ahead when he was sent clean through by Mooy’s 54th-minute through ball.
But the Bermuda international sent a tame shot against the legs of keeper Michael McGovern.
Wells almost atoned moments later when he unleashed a 25-yard effort that was brilliantly beaten out by the Norwich keeper.
Kachunga then showed him how it should be done in the 66th minute, outpacing Timm Klose to Tommy Smith’s pass before beating McGovern with a confident low finish from a narrow angle.
Scare
Wells turned provider when his neat pass released Mooy in the box and the Australian found the bottom corner from close range.
Norwich had survived an early scare when defender Ryan Bennett almost deflected a Wells cross into his own net.
But the Canaries finally gained a foothold as Alex Tettey and Jonny Howson began to find their passing range and Danny Ward was forced to gather the ball at the second attempt after the Town keeper spilled Alex Pritchard’s low effort from 20 yards.
Cameron Jerome had the ball in the net when he scuffed home a close-range effort only to be ruled offside at the end of a swift three-man Norwich counter-attack with Yanic Wildschut and Steven Naismith.
Then McGovern kept out Kachunga’s powerful downward header from Rajiv van La Parra’s floated cross.
Wells should have broken the deadlock soon after the restart but Kachunga and Mooy spared his blushes before the £2m striker grabbed the third to take his tally into double figures for the campaign.