Michael Duff left frustrated after latest Huddersfield Town defeat

Michael Duff has called on Huddersfield Town to stop "shooting themselves in the foot". The Terriers head coach watched his side slide to a 2-1 defeat at Reading this afternoon.

The visitors went in front from Matty Pearson’s close-range header. But the Royals levelled on the half-hour mark through Harvey Knibbs and went on to win with a low drive from Ben Elliott early in the second half.

The Terriers have now lost six of their last seven matches in all competitions. “We found a way to lose,” bemoaned Duff. “It was a much better performance than in the last weeks so I suppose that’s a positive. Coming in at half-time, you can’t believe that it’s 1-1.

“And yet we still found a way to lose the game. We had 75 per cent of the game and, at 70 minutes, we were totally dominant.

“So it’s frustrating and disappointing. We’ve played a number of matches now and there’s only one team, Blackpool, who have been better than us.

“We need to adjust. We need to find a way of finding points, of winning games that we are drawing. We have to stop shooting ourselves in the foot.”

Reading boss Ruben Selles praised his charges following their come-from-behind win. “We are happy to get the three points after not doing so over the past couple of weeks," he said. “It was a very competitive game. Even when going 1-0 down, we still had a feeling that we could do it.

“We scored the first goal and scored the second one against a really good opponent. In the end, we managed to keep the score.

“At 1-0 behind, we have been demanding of the team to be a little more robust. After conceding, we then started to play a bit more.

“Harvey [Knibbs] had an irregular start to the season with an injury. Today was his first 90 minutes and he did very well. We know how important he is to us.”