Huddersfield came back to beat Oxford United 3:1 on Tuesday evening in League One, the fourth matchday of the regular season. The result keeps them at the summit with ten points from four games, while Oxford drop to thirteenth on four points from three matches.
It was Oxford who took the lead, B. Radulovic finding the net in the fifty-sixth minute. Huddersfield did not respond straight away. By then they had already seen J. Currie booked in the thirty-fifth minute, and M. Wallace went offside too in the forty-ninth. The hosts stayed patient, waiting for an opening that would not come until the second half.
And here's the thing — the sixty-third minute changed everything. Oxford made five changes at once, bringing on J. McDonnell, T. Goodrham, M. Missanga, B. Radulovic, and A. Collins. The switch rattled them. G. O'Donkor equalised for Huddersfield in the seventieth, and J. Taylor followed with two goals in the seventy-fourth and seventy-seventh minutes. The home side had turned it around after the break.
Huddersfield made their own substitutions too — B. Spencer in the seventy-first, M. Harness in the seventy-eighth, and J. Taylor in the eighty-eighth. The visitors added yellow cards for S. Long and R. Ledson in the eighty-third and eighty-fifth minutes. The game had opened up, and Huddersfield were the ones carving them open.
The statistics tell their own story. Oxford had sixty-two per cent possession and completed five hundred and forty-three passes, but only two shots on target. Huddersfield had thirty-eight per cent and thirty-one-five passes, yet eleven shots on target and ten big chances created. To be fair, the visitors had more clearances and goalkeeper saves, but they could not stop the flooding.
Huddersfield move to ten points from four games, three wins and a draw. Oxford sit thirteenth with four points from three matches, one win, a draw, and a defeat. The gap between them widens, and the hosts have one foot in controlling their season so far.
