Huddersfield Town's Tino Anjorin gets important game-time ahead of Sheffield United trip

Huddersfield Town ended their tour of Marbella on a positive note with 45 minutes of football for Tino Anjorin.

The Chelsea loanee made a bright start to the season but is yet to play for new coach Mark Fotheringham after contracting glandular fever.

But the playmaker played the first half of the Terriers' friendly against Olympiacos. Town lost 2-0 but the result was largely an irrelevance, it was about getting minutes into the right legs ahead of the December 10 trip to Sheffield United when the Championship resumes after the World Cup.

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Huddersfield used 21 players in two formations, playing a 4-2-3-1 in the first half, and a 3-5-2 in the second. Only Duane Holmes did a double shift.

And whilst not as many of the players who missed the last matches before the World Cup were involved, Danny Ward started the first half and Etienne Camara, who sat out the matches against Queens Park Rangers and Swansea City with a hip flexor injury, came on in the second.

Matty Pearson, Jon Russell, Jonathan Hogg and Tyreece Simpson played no part in the game and former Sheffield Wednesday Florian Kamberi, who was training with the squad as a free agent, was unable to.

An Olympiacos team missing the out-of-favour Pipa, signed from Huddersfield in the summer, but featuring Real Madrid legend Marcelo won through goals by Kostas Fortounis and Youssef El-Arabi, one in either half.

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First-half team: Bilokapic; Spencer, Lees, Helik, Ruffels; Kasumu, Rudoni; Holmes, Anjorin, Jackson; Ward

Second-half team: Nicholls; Ayina, Boyle, Mbete; Kesler-Hayden, Diarra, Camara, Holmes, Mahoney; Rhodes, Harratt.