Huddersfield Town's clean shorts defending and infinite scoring variety among five conclusions

Huddersfield Town got their massive eight days off to the best possible start as they claimed a 2-0 victory over fellow top six contenders Luton Town to put themselves back to third in the table and take a massive stride towards qualifying for the play-offs.

Second-half goals by Jon Russell and Naby Sarr either side of a Luton penalty that Elijah Adebayo put against the post were enough to seal three huge points at the John Smith’s Stadium in a cagey game that saw both sides put in solid defensive performances.

The result puts the Terriers in a strong position going into their final five games of the regular season with their gap to seventh-placed Blackburn Rovers extended to six points – which may yet get cut down to four, should Middlesbrough win their game in hand. Here are our five conclusions on an excellent night for Carlos Corberan’s side.

Both sides found it hard to fashion clear-cut chances before Jon Russell’s brilliant 59th-minute opener. The question of whether the midfielder actually meant to shoot from there or not remains unanswered definitively for now, but whether it was a moment of supreme technique and stunning vision adding up to a moment of sheer brilliance or, as Nathan Jones claimed, a freak goal resulting from a desire to simply put it in the mixer, is irrelevant really – though we absolutely think he did mean it, for the record.

Either one thing or the other was going to be necessary to break a deadlock created by two solid sides putting in excellent defensive performances. Sonny Bradley was particularly immense for the visitors, while at the other end Tom Lees, Jonathan Hogg and Levi Colwill all put in brilliantly composed performances to ensure Luton’s chances were kept to a minimum.

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