Carlos Corberan rues two costly lapses of concentration by Huddersfield Town

Town were punished twice by Michal Helik, who cashed in on slack marking to net twice, including a dramatic 94th-minute winner as Barnsley moved to within three points of the Championship's top-six.

The visitors had earlier led after Rarmani Edmonds-Green's first senior goal for the Terriers. But Barnsley turned the tables, with Town without an away success on Boxing Day since 2003.

Corberan commented: "Without a doubt, it is a very painful result for us as the team was competing well and really well in open play. But in two second balls in set-pieces, we did not give the answer we should give and they were focused on this.

"After the throw-in, they were really focused to create this action and we were not able to defend this set-piece situations well.

"The little details are very important. It is true that the game is not all set-pieces and we tried to attack and could not break their pressing enough. But for me, we played better in the second half than the first half.

"We did not create all the chances we wanted to create, but for me, we defended very aggressively and strongly. But in the two actions where we did not defend well, both were set-pieces and we conceded two goals."

Town's late concession was all the more galling, given that they controlled much of the second period, only to see their mask slip at the death.

Corberan added: "From the competitive point of view, it was very aggressive in terms of how many challenges we were making in the middle of the pitch. In the first half, we started well, but in the second part of the first half, we were not able to win enough second balls, but for me, in the second half, we took control of the game in all situations.

"To concede in the last thirty seconds of extra (added-on) time, we had the option to play one free-kick and after it, we suffered the consequences from this action with a long throw-in for them from which they score the goal.

"We missed a little bit of competitive level in this action and we had to be strong defenders in this situation. We need individual concentration."