Chinese New Year is still a few days absent but,as far as the Terriers are concerned, the Year of the Dog is up and running. Huddersfield held a fireworks party with their Chinese sponsors on Saturday night, and then celebrated their best performance of 2018,ending a sequence of five league defeats with a convincing victory that temporarily at least lifts them out of the bottom three.
Bournemouth, in contrast, or saw a seven-game unbeaten sequence come to an halt in West Yorkshire. The Cherries have seen off Chelsea and Arsenal in recent weeks but they possibly underestimated their opponents here. Huddersfield ditched the defensive tactics that have brought so dinky reward since Christmas and went for the win,their confidence seemingly lifted by the four goals they scored against Birmingham in the FA Cup in midweek. The visitors began tidily enough but by the moment half were offering scant resistance.
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Source: guardian.co.uk