Peterborough United vs Huddersfield in Sky Bet League One

Two deflected first half efforts from the Terriers were enough to see off a limp Posh side.  

Posh started the game on the front foot, roared on by a noisy London Road crowd. New signing Mahamadou Susoho played a big part in an opening ten minutes of dominant possession from the hosts. 

The first two big chances of the game also fell to Darren Ferguson’s men. Just before the half hour mark, Ricky-Jade Jones caused havoc in the Huddersfield back line, running onto his own flick-on header and dragging his shot narrowly wide of the mark. Summer signing Chris Conn-Clarke also went close, but couldn’t guide his shot past Lee Nicholls in the Huddersfield goal. 

Posh then fell apart, as a period of sheer Huddersfield domination began. On 36 minutes, the visitors got their reward for relentless pressure. A cross was fired towards the edge of the area found Anthony Evans, who’s powerful effort defected off of Archie Collins and past Jed Steer in the Posh net. 

The Terriers doubled their lead on the cusp of the interval. Josh Koroma’s effort was well blocked by Posh defender Oscar Wallin, however the ball fell kindly again at the edge of the area, this time for Jordan Wiles who’s effort ricocheted off of Archie Collins again, beating a helpless Jed Steer.

The second half was one of comfort for Micheal Duff’s Huddersfield Town, as Posh struggled to connect their attacking play. 

Joel Randall will be frustrated not to have cut the Huddersfield advantage in half on the hour mark, his effort just evading the far corner after some good linkup play from substitute Cian Hayes. 

Despite Darren Ferguson’s best efforts to reignite his Posh side, the game ended 2-0 to the visitors, a result that sees Posh bottom of the League One table after game-week one. 

Posh travel to Championship Oxford midweek for their Carabao cup first round tie. Posh are next in league action this Saturday (August 17) when they travel to Shropshire to take on Shrewsbury Town.