Unstoppable Huddersfield Town unleash best performance yet to claim sensational win at Fulham

Brilliant, sensational, magnificent: run down the Terriers teamsheet, and you can find a superlative for each of them.

Fulham got their consolation goal in the end to tee up a nervy finish, but don’t let that trick you into thinking Huddersfield Town were lucky to take their three points. To a man, their performances were just exactly what was required to enact Carlos Corberan’s master plan.

This side has been gathering momentum throughout what is now a 15-game unbeaten run, and last weekend’s rather unlucky goalless draw against Sheffield United had spelt out that this Town side need to be taken very seriously in the promotion race, such was the convincing nature of the performance.

This game not only built on that, and was not just the best Town performance of the season: it was the best Town performance in years, given just how dominant Fulham have been over the rest of the division this season.

That meant that Town were always going to need to put in a perfect, disciplined and clinical away showing to come away from Craven Cottage with a point, let alone three; and that is precisely what Corberan’s increasingly superb team of warriors delivered.

Just as they had done at Nottingham Forest, Town lined up in a 4-4-2 designed to try and force Fulham onto the back foot as quickly and as far up the pitch as they possibly could.

Lewis O’Brien was deployed in an unfamiliar centre-forward role alongside Danny Ward to apply that pressure from the front, ably supported by wingers Duane Holmes and Sorba Thomas.

That pressure paid off just after the half hour as Thomas went up the right and squared for Ward, whose initial effort was blocked. Harry Toffolo kept the pressure on to win the ball in the Fulham half, winning the