Grayson Happy With All Three Points

Simon Grayson watched his side struggle against Bristol city but come out looking pretty with all three points as a single Scannell goal was the difference between the two teams. With a woeful performance from both sides, Grayson was forced to make four changes to his team after the heavy defeat against Millwall but it paid dividend as the terriers moved up to the table into seventh. Here is what Simon had to say about the game;

"You have to be able to win football matches in a number of different manners and today was one of those days. We didn't play the fluid football that we are capable of doing, but we got the goal and grinded it out. I thought we were better in the second half and passed it with more of a purpose; if we had been slightly more ruthlessly we could have scored a couple more. In the end we were indebted to Alex for making a couple of good saves."

"They were throwing bodies forward in the closing stages and Alex showed how good a goalkeeper he is by keeping his concentration levels high and making the save from Stephen McManus. We knew it was going to be a tough afternoon and we knew that we had to give the crowd something to shout about. It is a two way thing and we have to give them something to get excited about. We know that we can pass the ball better and our goal was our best passing move of the game. It was nice to see Sean Scannell getting into the box and he finished well."

Grayson named Scannell in the starting lineup and the winger failed to disappoint the manager with a neat finish which completed a very neat passing move. Grayson paid tribute to Scannell in his post match interview;

"He was lively today. I was impressed with the way that he played on Monday night in the Under-21 game and we have been trying to get him a little bit fitter over the last couple of weeks. The lad has got a lot of ability and he could have been a little bit more ruthless, but that is Scanz for you. He can do things that other players can't do and with that he will, on occasion, make a bad decision."

After two heavy league losses in a row it got worse for Huddersfield Town before the game when Grayson named his starting XI as well as his bench without both Vaughan & Beckford in either. He explained the situation on both of his strikers;

"Jermaine picked up a hamstring strain in training and James Vaughan suffered a reoccurrence of his injury on Friday while he was doing his fitness test. We played a formation today which was to allow Scannell, Adam Clayton and Adam Hammill the opportunity to get forward. You can't fault the endeavour of the players, they worked their socks off."

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