ROBBIE BRADY
BOSS CALLS FOR CLAMPDOWN
stuff for three years. I’m not talking about the individual, it’s about the good of the game.
“Diving has to go and no one seems that bothered about it. What I saw today was as bad as I’ve seen in a while.”
These two might not be the most fashionable names in the top flight but they both play football that is easy on the eye.
However, all too often, both sides were guilty of overplaying it with lone strikers Chris Wood and Laurent Depoitre cutting frustrated figures at either end of the pitch.
Wood was unusually wasteful in a sobering first half which garnered no shots on target.
Stephen Ward played a one-two with Scott Arfield and put in a peach of a cross which Wood glanced wide. It was the type of chance the Kiwi hitman has been gobbling up for fun over the past couple of years but he failed to get the right connection.
Huddersfield took 48 minutes to muster their first effort on goal.
Thomas Ince surged forward before teeing up Depoitre who drew a smart save from Nick Pope.
The controversial moment arrived on 71 minutes when Van la Parra went down too easily with Matt Lowton nearby. Van la Parra appealed for a spotkick but replays showed no contact and the Dutchman was shown a yellow card. Huddersfield chief David Wagner said he had yet to see a replay. “I haven’t seen it again but I have spoken to Rajiv,” said the German.
“Of course, it’s not what we like to see and he gets booked. But I haven’t seen it because it happened so quickly.
“He will get fined and we move on. It was a deserved point.”