Huddersfield boost play-off hopes and deepen Rotherham’s relegation fears

Lenny Agbaire’s own goal gave Huddersfield’s play-off hopes a boost in an unconvincing 1-0 victory over relegation-threatened Rotherham.

The visitors had the first real chance, with Liam Kelly’s looping shot to the top corner from just outside the box forcing a good save out of Lee Nicholls.

Zak Jules was then unable to keep his close-range header down from the resulting corner.

Huddersfield drew the home fans’ ire with their ponderous work on the ball and their best opening of the first half was squandered after Ryan Hardie met Antony Evans’ through ball with a poor touch inside the box.

Things did not improve after the break and the hosts had a lucky escape when Reece James failed to connect properly with Sam Nombe’s cutback from the byline.

Huddersfield finally forced a proper save on 73 minutes, with Ted Cann superbly keeping out Josh Feeney’s header off a corner.

But there was nothing Cann could do three minutes later when Agbaire looped a header over him in his attempt to clear Sean Roughan’s cross.