Huddersfield Town's chess game, Luton Town's homework and role of fitness among five conclusions

Huddersfield Town’s play-off semi-final will now come down to what happens at the John Smith's Stadium after they claimed a 1-1 draw away to Luton Town in the first leg on Friday evening. The hosts dominated the first half but nonetheless found themselves behind early on after Danel Sinani raced through on goal off Harry Toffolo’s pass before firing a shot past emergency goalkeeper Matt Ingram.

Sonny Bradley restored parity later in the half, but after the break it was Carlos Corberan’s men who put themselves firmly on top thanks to a couple of tactical tweaks that helped them take better control of the game – but neither side was able to fashion that golden opportunity they needed to take the advantage into Monday evening’s second leg in Huddersfield.

With a short turnaround between the two games, there is plenty of work for Corberan and his players to analyse how to get the result they need to book their place at Wembley come the end of the month. Here are our five conclusions on the game.

You’d have taken that before kick off, wouldn’t you? Luton Town have made Kenilworth Road an incredibly difficult stomping ground for even the very best away teams all season (and there have been none better than Huddersfield Town in the big games), with their performance here showing exactly why that has been the case.

But in this parish we are much more concerned with what Carlos Corberan’s side did, and on that front we were not disappointed. The Terriers were made to labour through the first half but matched their hosts for energy and determination, forcing the opening goal against the run of play and getting to the break with the scores still level despite coming under near-constant pressure from Nathan Jones’ side. The