Daily Star

LOSSL WIFE-SAVER

- By MIKE WHALLEY

JONAS LOSSL is asking everyone – including his wife – for help in his bid to drag Huddersfie­ld out of their slump.

The keeper has had a torrid season and not just because the club are facing the prospect of Premier League relegation in record time.

Lossl (right) was out of the side at the start of the campaign when new signing Ben Hamer got the nod.

He was also part of the Denmark squad that went on strike in September over a contract dispute.

And he then saw head coach David Wagner leave last month, while the club have also had to cope with chairman Dean Hoyle’s three-month spell in hospital. Hoyle is hoping to attend today’s home game against Arsenal as Town seek to end a run of just one point from their past 12 league matches.

Lossl, 30, said: “I will never judge a season midway. It can still be the best season and it can still be the worst.

“I owe it to myself, first and foremost, but also to the club and the fans to keep fighting.

“You will have to ask my wife if I am difficult to live with right now. But I am not happy after the games.

“It is difficult but I do have a rule where I give myself a day and then a recovery day the day after, and then I have it all out. That gives me time to speak to the people I need to, be it my goalkeepin­g coach, my mental coach, my manager, the players, my wife sometimes.

“After that, it is a time to look forward. My wife makes good food for me. That is a help. She is a very good cook.

“It is hard for her. The family feels it, of course they do.

“There is pressure on everyone, including the staff here at the club.

“Everyone handles the pressure in their own way. I owe it to everyone to not let the pressure come to me.”

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