Huddersfield Town 2 Sheffield Wednesday 0 - player ratings

The game was won in an opening half-hour when the Owls were all over the place and Town's slick football was all over them.

Chief football writer Stuart Rayner gives his verdicts on the individual performers.

Huddersfield Town:

Ben Hamer – a good stoppage-time save was his only test and he was up to it 7

Pipa – led the way when Huddersfield were at their most impressive 8

Rarmani Edmonds-Green – assured display 7

Naby Sarr – played some lovely balls out from the back and made a vital first-half interception 8

Harry Toffolo – good as usual 7

Jonathan Hogg – another injury for the midfield general 6

Carel Eiting – solid in midfield 6

Lewis O'Brien – probably the one Town player to improve in the second half 7

Isaac Mbenza – a real threat, he scored but could have been even more ruthless 7

Fraizer Campbell – selfless and hard-working as usual 7

Josh Koroma – scored a goal and was full of confidence – too much as he injured himself attempting a robona when Town started the second half too casually. 7.

Substitutes:

Juninho Bacuna (for Hogg, 35) – mixed bag from the midfielder 6

Jaden Brown (for Koroma, 62) – provided the control needed 6

Alex Vallejo (for Mbenza, 82) – N/A

Danny Ward (for Campbell, 82) – N/A

Not used: Pritchard, Diakhaby, Rowe, Schofield, Phillips.

Sheffield Wednesday

Joe Wildsmith – should he have done better with Mbenza's free-kick 5

Moses Odubajo – messed about positionally early on 6

Tom Lees – part of a confused defence over-run early on 6

Dominic Iorfa – switched from the centre of a five to the right of a three, he conceded the penalty 5

Julian Borner – should never have been allowed to carry on after a bang to the head 6

Adam Reach – his early uncertainty characterised Wednesday's, but became their best outlet when given a clearer role 6

Kadeem Harris – worked hard but delivered little 5

Callum Paterson – took a battering and played one great pass to Reach 7

Massimo Luongo – the holding midfielder was hooked after one of many unimpressive first halves for Wednesday 5

Barry Bannan – a couple of exquisite moments to release Reach, but they came to nothing 7

Josh Windass – put a good header from a Reach cross wide but had little to work off otherwise 5.

Liam Palmer (for Borner, 21) – conceded the free-kick Mbenza scored from 5

Joey Pelupessy (for Luongo, 46) – quiet, but that is his way 6

Elias Kachunga (for Paterson, 80) – N/A

Jordan Rhodes (for Windass, 80) – N/A

Izzy Brown (for Bannan, 85) – N/A

Not used: van Aken, Penney, Dele-Bashiru, Dawson,.

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