Terriers boss quick to turn attention to Blues

David Wagner has little time to savour Huddersfield’s display in Saturday’s home Premier League win against Brighton.

Wagner said his side turned in one of their best performances of the season as two firsthalf goals from Steve Mounie halted a fourgame losing streak.

But the Terriers head coach must quickly turn his attention to tomorrow’s visit of Chelsea to the John Smith’s Stadium.

“I’m not sure Chelsea will be too much focused on us, but what I can say is we will be focused on Chelsea,” Wagner said.

“We’ve watched them as well before our game, so now we will enjoy this great performance, not only the result, the performance was very strong as well.

“From Sunday we will start to get very focused on Chelsea, which is the next game in front of us.”

Huddersfield maintained their habit of eking out the best of their resources at the John Smith’s Stadium and their fourth home league win of the season lifted them above Brighton into 11th place in the table.

Three crucial points were never in doubt once Mounie took advantage of some shoddy Brighton defending to head home his second shortly before the interval and the Terriers spent most of the second period chasing a third goal.

“The idea is the higher we press our opponent, the further away the ball is from our goal and this was why, even in the second half, we were on our front foot and in their faces,” Wagner added.

“This was the idea. We wanted to score the third goal because then it’s probably game over and the game killed. This was our aim.

“We created these moments and always looked more like we would score our third goal than Brighton would score their first.”