Sorba issues a promise to Holmes after the

BOURNEMOUTH, Swansea, Stoke City. There’s your complete list of sides Huddersfield Town have played twice in the league already this season without winning either game. Scott Parker’s side are the only ones they are yet to take a single point off.

When it comes to what it means for their upcoming encounters, we doubt Carlos Corberan particularly cares about the fact four of their next five opponents went unbeaten in the first half of the campaign.

The Terriers boss has made it very clear he wants his side to go for the three points in every game, regardless of circumstances or league position.

Nonetheless, the bragging rights would be nice to have after losing 1-0 at Queens

Park Rangers, putting in one of their worst performances of the season in a 2-1 defeat at home to Middlesbrough, coming away from Oakwell with only a point from a 1-1 draw to show for their efforts against a poor Barnsley side, and claiming a rather fortuitous 1-1 at home to Coventry City after coming under constant siege for around an hour.

The pulsating 3-2 win Town claimed away to their final-day opponents Bristol City makes them the only one of their remaining opponents to have been beaten in the league earlier this season - perhaps unsurprisingly, given they were the only one of the five Town played having turned the corner from their one bad run of form all season.

The question now is whether that was a consequence of Town being caught by those sides during that lull of form, rather than that lull in form having come about because of some specific weakness against that set of sides.

The fact Town have already taken three more points in the second half of the season despite having a handful of games left over suggests an answer – the job facing Town now is to prove the hypothesis and secure a set of results sufficient to secure that top six finish.

“I FELT the first half we started off well, then they got into the game a bit, but the second half they tried to high press us and I felt our fitness showed, that we’re fitter than them. They blew out and we got stronger, you can see that in the game, and we could have got three or four.”

Yes you could, Sorba Thomas. Those are the words of the Welsh winger after Huddersfield Town’s 2-0 win over Luton Town on Monday evening, achieved thanks to a simply brilliant Jon Russell goal off a Pipa throw-in and a Naby Sarr header from a corner taken by Thomas late on.

That was Thomas’ 14th assist of the season, and he had a golden chance to make it 15 moments later as Duane Holmes released him before making a run the other side of the lone Luton defender who was able to get back desperately to try and protect the goalkeeper.

Holmes was screaming for the pass, and had Thomas squared it to him it surely would have been

3-0 - but instead he put a tame shot towards the bottom corner that James Shea saved with ease.

Perhaps if Thomas had known seven minutes of added time was about to be shown by the fourth official, he would have taken the safer option, but in the event that period of stoppage time passed without incident and Town were able to see out an excellent 2-0 win.

No harm done, then, and while Holmes’ frustration at the time was evident, the pair were able to see the