Huddersfield climb into top two with comfortable win over Peterborough

Huddersfield moved into the Sky Bet Championship’s top two after extending their unbeaten run to an 18th game with a routine 3-0 home victory over Peterborough.

Centre-back Tom Lees’ headed brace secured three points for the Terriers after midfielder Danel Sinani’s sixth goal of the season had opened the scoring.

The victory sees Huddersfield go a point ahead of third-placed Bournemouth, although they have now played five games more than the Cherries.

Struggling Peterborough, meanwhile, remain bottom of the table, having taken just two points from a possible 36.

Earlier, David Cornell had earned a late call-up in the visitors’ goal after Steven Benda pulled out due to illness during the warm-up and he subsequently picked the ball out of his net twice within the opening seven minutes.

Called into quick action to parry a Sinani strike, Cornell was powerless to prevent the Luxembourg international from finding his top-right corner from 20 yards after the ball had broken back to him following a Lewis O’Brien drive that was blocked by Jorge Grant.

The cultured third-minute effort meant Posh have not kept a clean sheet in their last 19 away contests, equalling their worst sequence since 1989.

Sinani then turned architect, swinging in a corner from the right that saw a towering Lees glance a header inside the far post from six yards.

In response, Kwame Poku’s side-footed 10-yard effort brushed the side-netting following Sammie Szmodics’ raid to the left byline.

But the Terriers went close to a third before the half-hour mark when Ollie Turton’s edge-of-the-box drive thudded against the crossbar after looping over Cornell following a deflection off Szmodics.

Duane Holmes also shot narrowly past an upright for the hosts after