Carlos Corberan delighted Huddersfield Town 'suffer together as a family' to secure first win

The Terriers thoroughly deserved their 1-0 victory over a much-changed Nottingham Forest who, like them, came into the game on the back of losing their first three matches of the season without scoring.

Whilst Huddersfield played the better football in the first half, their confidence was tested with Ben Hamer having to make both the game's outstanding saves, from Sammy Ameobi and Loic Mbe Soh.

Undeterred, Town took the lead through Fraizer Campbell's exquisite 55th-minute volley and the only complaint was not adding to it. They certainly did not look like relinquishing it after that for all the attacking talent Forest poured from the bench, but inevitably they had to work hard.

“The team performed really well,” said their coach. “We started the game positively and began to dominate and feel comfortable with the ball.

“Only when they moved their winger inside did they start to cause us problems but we created some positive chances we shared with them.

“It was positive the team continued playing with the same idea in the second half. It's very positive when you see the team suffer in the last minutes as a family.

“We knew after we scored the goal we would have more chances to counter-attack. We tried to use the spaces we had in behind.

“We tried to increase our lead but unfortunately we couldn't. We had some clear chances to do it so we suffered until the end.”

Campbell's presence was important and significant because Huddersfield had to play their first two Championship games under Corberan without a recognised centre-forward.

”It's important to have a striker on the pitch,” acknowledged Corberan. “We lost Danny Ward (to injury, in the opening game in the League Cup) so we played two games without a striker.

“Campbell was only working with the team for five days before the Brentford game.

“After last week we were thinking he was ready because it's always important to have a reference (point).”

Corberan handed a full league debut to centre-back Romoney Critchlow, who produced a mature performance, and brought on-loan Ajax midfielder Carel Eiting off the bench for his first appearance as a replacement for Jonathan Hogg, who injured his hip.

“Here in the club we have created a B team because we are trying to give opportunities to our academy players,” said Corberan.

“You are going to have injuries in this process so you try to have more numbers by involving them.

“We were thinking of him (Eiting) more as a No 8 but he had to play in place of Hogg (as a holding midfielder).

“I think Hogg received a kick in the first half and he is a player who helps the team to defend very well but he started to feel the problem. I hope it is nothing serious.”

One player who did not make his debut was Naby Sarr. Before the match Corberan suggested the free agent, released by Charlton Athletic in the summer, could be risked after just two training sessions since coming out of quarantine but he sensibly decided against, selecting Critchlow instead.

“We were thinking he needed a little bit of time to prepare because his last game was more than two months ago. It's impossible for a player if he's not prepared. We will continue working with him to accelerate it.”

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