Huddersfield Daily Examiner

WOLVES ............... 0 Brown supplies

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moment of magic from the returning Izzy Brown, curing home a strike from 20 yards out to claim his fifth goal of the campaign.

His exquisite performanc­e will leave Town supporters licking their lips to what may come in the PlayOffs as well as perhaps wondering what might have been had he been available over the course of the past month.

Wagner made four changes to the side which lost at home to Fulham on Saturday with Sean Scannell and Izzy Brown both starting after making second-half appearance in that defeat.

They replaced Joe Lolley and Philip Billing while Martin Cranie also came in for Tommy Smith who picked up a dead leg against the Cottagers while the final change saw Nahki Wells replace Collin Quaner up front.

The other notable absentee was Town’s top goalscorer Elias Kachunga who missed out for the second successive league game as he continues to struggle with a calf injury.

On an evening of bitterly cold temperatur­es more akin to the middle of winter than the first shoots of spring, the opening exchanges were somewhat of a slow-burner as both keepers were relative spectators.

One immediate comfort for Town’s travelling away support though was how much more balanced David Wagner’s side looked with Brown’s return to the starting-11 with Scannell also providing excellent support down the right.

And it was on-loan Chelsea man Brown who was at the heart of the game’s first real opportunit­y – finding Wells in space in the area but the forward’s effort was well over the bar when he should have done better.

As the game ambled on at a pedestrian pace, it would take something

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