Jordan Rhodes' Huddersfield Town claim and Carlos Corberan's throwback among five conclusions

Huddersfield Town made it four games without defeat as they claimed a reasonably comfortable 0-2 victory away to fellow play-off contenders Middlesbrough to put themselves one win away from making a top six finish a mathematical possibility.

Naby Sarr opened the scoring shortly before the break by nodding home from close range after Jordan Rhodes headed a Sorba Thomas corner back across the six yard box, and the former Middlesbrough striker ent from creator to scorer on the hour as he fired a left-footed shot into the top corner off a Lewis O’Brien lay-off.

That briefly extended the Terriers’ gap to seventh place to ten points before Millwall’s victory over Hull City later in the afternoon cut it back down to eight, but with just three games to go, things are looking very good indeed for Carlos Corberan’s men. Here are our five conclusions on an excellent victory.

What two words do Kim Kardashian, Eden Hazard and Huddersfield Town have in common? All but.

It’s a point so obvious that it doesn’t need to be made, but there is nowhere else to start when it comes to analysing the game. We stand by our stance that we’ll take a win from a poor performance over a loss from a good performance any day at this stage of the season with everything that’s on the line, and in fact on the day Huddersfield Town gave a performance to match the superb result.

But that is much less significant than the fact that they are now all but nailed on for the play-offs now. Either three more points for Town, or both a defeat for Middlesbrough and a winless game for Millwall, would make a top six finish for Corberan’s men a mathematical certainty.

‘Wrapped up’ isn’t the term just yet, then, but the glittery paper has been measured and cut, and is