All Huddersfield Town manager wants for Christmas are some left-footers

Town had to recover from a half-time deficit at the DW Stadium, with Terriers product Josh Windass intercepting an attempted pass from on-loan Liverpool goalkeeper Kamil Grabara and beating him in a one-on-one.

Windass, who spent 10 years with Town, was almost in again for Wigan shortly after the restart, when Grabara had to hare off his line to deny the former Rangers forward following an under-hit back-pass.

Town secured a draw when Karlan Grant rifled home a great goal with 20 minutes to go.

They could even have won it late on only for substitute Steve Mounie’s towering header to be hacked off the line by Jamal Lowe.

Cowley said: “It was a disappointing first half and their goal pretty much summed that up.

“Kamil’s a young boy, he’s going to make mistakes – as most young goalkeepers do – and he’ll learn from it.

“He’s going to be a top goalkeeper but if he wasn’t going to make those mistakes he would still be at Liverpool.

“Liverpool have rightly sent him here to make those mistakes and he’ll be better for it.”

When asked about the second incident at the beginning of the second half, Cowley added: “It was real football suicide... we were having a good game at that, weren’t we!”

Despite almost winning the game, Cowley was happy enough with the point on the back of the midweek win at Charlton.

He added: “We accept the outcome bearing in mind the circumstances and the amount of injuries we have.

“It’s been a really tough period for sure and to take four points from two away games this week is a good outcome. We’re playing with 11 right-footers and we weren’t able to use Steve Mounie from the outset because of sickness. It’s not easy. We’re so lacking balance in the group at the moment, with the injuries we have.

“All I want for Christmas is some of my good men back! Santa doesn’t have to bring me any presents – just some of my injured players, preferably the left-footed ones.”

Wigan Athletic: Jones, Byrne, Kipre, Naismith, Robinson, Evans, Morsy, Massey (Pilkington 83), Windass, Jacobs, Lowe (Garner 83). Unused substitutes: Macleod, Sterling, Roberts, Dunkley, Gyollai.

Huddersfield Town: Grabara, Simpson, Schindler, Stankovic, Hadergjonaj, Chalobah, Hogg, Kachunga, Bacuna, Koroma (Mounie 60), Ahearne-Grant. Unused substitutes: Coleman, Edmonds-Green, Harratt, Duhaney, Daly, High.

Referee: S Martin (Staffordshire).