Carlos Corberan insists Huddersfield Town must be laser-focused on one thing ahead of play-offs

Carlos Corberan insists the tantalising prospect of leading his side out at Wembley is not on his or his players’ minds whatsoever while a tough two-legged semi-final against Luton Town still stands in their way.

Huddersfield Town will visit Kenilworth Road for the first leg in Friday’s 7:45pm kick off before hosting the second leg on Monday evening, with the right to face either Nottingham Forest or Sheffield United in the capital on the line.

Corberan knows better than most that nothing can be taken for granted in the play-offs having been assistant manager at Leeds United in 2018/19, when they spent much of the season pushing for automatic promotion only to finish third and then lse to sixth-placed Derby County in the semi-finals.

As such the head coach is keen to ensure that nobody at Huddersfield is getting ahead of themselves, saying: “There’s no chance [of us doing that]. That’s something that’s not in our minds. We know we’re going to play against a very strong and competitive Luton team for 180 minutes and we need to know that to make this dream happen we need to perform at our best level in two games of 90 minutes.

“So in our minds there is no type of possibility to be thinking more about the future than to be thinking in the present – not just because we say this but because it’s true. If you analyse the four teams in the play-offs – Nottingham Forest, Sheffield United, and Luton – the only team we did not beat playing away was Luton. That’s one key example.

“If you analyse the results of Luton playing the top five teams ahead of them in the Championship, none of the teams have beaten them when they’ve been playing at home.

“So I know how difficult the game is and the players know exactly the same. If we