Huddersfield Daily Examiner

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that, at the moment, we struggle at defending set pieces, but the most important thing – and I’ve told the players this – we have to make sure this is only something which happens in our heads,” said Wagner.

“We are strong enough in defending set pieces – we have shown this in the past and in the early games when we were very successful.

“And we have to make sure that everybody is not feeling fear if we concede a corner.

“We have to see the chance if we concede a corner that we can defend that corner.”

Wagner added: “When we went to Newcastle, we saw the chance to get a result and we didn’t have the fear that we might lose the game.

“This is exactly the same as when we defend a set piece. We have to see the chance to defend it, like we have in the past.

“So we have to change the point of view and realise that we have togetherne­ss and confidence and trust in our open play, and this is what we must bring to defending set pieces as well.”

Town’s all-time top-scoring fixture is away to Wolverhamp­ton Wanderers.

More goals have been scored in those games on average than in any other Town fixture to have been played at least 20 times.

The trouble for the Leeds Road club, though, is that the goals tend to have gone in their net, with Wolves currently beating the Terriers 98-55.

With 153 goals scored in total, away to Wolves is the second highest scoring Huddersfie­ld fixture in the calendar after Derby away (157 goals), but has been played fewer times, so averages 3.8 goals per game as opposed to the 3.4 a game scored away to the Rams.

Port Vale at home is the next biggest goal-fest in Huddersfie­ld history.

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