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CARLOS Corberan named the same side on Saturday that had beaten Millwall and drawn against Peterborough, and in performance terms we do understand it.

There were more positives than negatives to take out of the trip to London Road, despite the disappointing nature of the result, while Cardiff were likely to pose similar issues to Millwall, who Town had kept at bay superbly.

But the head coach had said the Millwall game had been the most physically taxing match of the season. That made the decision not to rotate anyone against Peterborough a gamble, especially since the same XI had also started against Hull and Birmingham before four changes were made against Bournemouth.

To pick that side again was outright risky, both in terms of injury management after Jonathan Hogg and Duane Holmes had limped off at London Road, and in terms of game management after they had looked so leggy and unable to defend Peterborough’s late onslaught.

All those chickens came home to roost, with the first clucks heard just six minutes in as Hogg pulled up. He had to be replaced by Scott High, just as he had at half-time a few days before, and a second substitution was required as Holmes again left the field, this time to be replaced by Josh Koroma.

For both of those injuries to recur inside the first half does not speak well of the decision to pick them.

Late on, Town looked dead on their feet. Seeing the usually indomitable Matty Pearson limply fall to the floor as youngster Isaak Davies breezed past him on his way to setting up Kieffer Moore’s last-second winner about summed up how the Terriers