Norwich City loanee Danel Sinani was pivotal to Huddersfield Town’s 3-0 win at home to Peterborough United on Friday night.
The Luxembourgish forward curled the ball into the top left corner from distance in the third minute, before whipping in a corner kick for Tom Lees to head into the net in the seventh.
The opener 🥵#htafc | #TerrierSpirit pic.twitter.com/3UErE2WNlR
— Huddersfield Town (@htafc) March 5, 2022
Following an impressive run of 18 games unbeaten in all competitions, the Terriers are now second in the Sky Bet Championship, 11 points behind Fulham.
AFC Bournemouth failed to take back second place as they lost 2-1 away to Preston North End on Saturday.
Todd Cantwell played 80 minutes and the Cherries are now third in the league, one point behind Huddersfield but with four games in hand.
In the bottom half, Jordan Hugill played 66 minutes of Cardiff City’s 1-0 win at home to Derby County and 82 minutes of their 2-1 win at Queens Park Rangers last week.
The Bluebirds are 17th in the second tier, two points and one place ahead of Birmingham City, who won 2-1 at Bristol City on Saturday, Onel Hernandez playing 86 minutes for the Blues.
Bali Mumba wasn’t in league action for Peterborough last week, but did come in in the 79th minute of their 2-0 defeat at home to Manchester City in the fifth round of the Emirates FA Cup.
Overseas, Josip Drmić scored the second goal of HNK Rijeka’s 3-0 win at home to Slaven Belupo on Saturday. Rijeka are third in the 1. HNL, one point behind Dinamo Zagreb and NK Osijek.
In Scotland, Sebastian Soto came on in the 70th minute for Livingston’s 2-1 win at home to Dundee United and for their 3-1 defeat at home to Celtic to go fifth in the Scottish Premiership.
Rocky Bushiri, meanwhile, received a red card for Hibernian in their 0-0 draw at Dundee on Wednesday.
As for the Scottish Championship, Inverness Caledonian Thistle are fourth after Friday’s 1-0 loss at Partick Thistle, which Reece McAlear played 90 minutes of.
Back in the Football League, Josh Martin played the first half of Doncaster Rovers’ 4-0 loss at Cheltenham Town on Saturday. Doncaster are 23rd in Sky Bet League One, four points from safety.
In the Vanarama National League, Aston Oxborough kept a clean sheet as Barnet won 6-0 at home to Dover Athletic to go 15th on Saturday.
Southend United are three places above following Saturday’s 2-2 draw away to Chesterfield. Matthew Dennis played 76 minutes of that game.
Players who were unused substitutes: Akin Famewo (Charlton Athletic), Sam McCallum (Queens Park Rangers), Tyrese Omotoye (Carlisle United), Tom Dickson-Peters (Gillingham)
Players who weren’t involved in matchday squads: Sam Blair (Bury Town)
Image credit: Will Early (Sinani)