EPL : Huddersfield hand Man Utd shock defeat

Aaron Mooy and Laurent Depoitre score in 2-1 win as United lose for the first time this season

Aaron Mooy and Laurent Depoitre scored first-half goals as Huddersfield Town handed Manchester United their first league defeat of the season, winning 2-1 at the John Smith's Stadium.

Huddersfield went ahead on 28 minutes when Mooy reacted first to a David De Gea save and shot into the bottom corner.

Six minutes later the home side were 2-0 up when United's Victor Lindelof, on for the injured Phil Jones, misjudged a long ball from Jonas Lossl and Depoitre was on hand to finish.

United pulled a goal back when a cross from Romelu Lukaku was nodded in by Marcus Rashford with 12 minutes to go but, despite late pressure, could not find an equaliser and fell five points behind Manchester City, the leaders.

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EUROPEAN EXPLOITS DIDN’T HELP“The conditions are the same for everyone, for them and for us. The only thing that is different is that we played a game two days ago, they didn’t. But we already knew for a long, long time that is a difference in quality – one plays in the Champions League, the other doesn’t. So, the difference in quality is compensated by the fact that one team plays more than the other. That’s football.”

MISTAKES NOT TO BLAME
“It’s not fair to say that the mistakes were responsible for the defeat, because the mistakes were in the context of the overall performance. If we are playing amazingly well and then we lose because of an individual mistake, then we can say ‘okay we lost because of an individual mistake’. But no, since the first minute, the game was poor for us. We paid the price and I think deservedly.”

-JOSE MOURINHO

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Huddersfield Town Head Coach David Wagner told #HTTV he was very happy and proud of his side’s performance after the 2-1 win against Manchester United in the Premier League.

Wagner admitted his side learnt a lot from the defeat against Tottenham Hotspur and implemented that into game plan against Manchester United.

Town’s Head Coach described the win as one of his proudest moments since being at Huddersfield Town and admitted that it’s great story for the Club, commenting:

“It’s a great story that ‘small’ Huddersfield Town has beaten Manchester United.

With Argentina, Ghana, Chile and Australia's hopes all hanging by a thread... who will qualify for World Cup 2018 in Russia?

• The race to qualify for Russia 2018 is almost over, with 12 teams already booked
• The home nations, besides England, have it all to play for in the coming days
• Argentina, Ghana, Chile and Australia's hopes are all hanging by a thread

Argentina's hopes are hanging by a thread... but who will book their place at Russia next year

AFC - 46 teams competing for 4.5 places

Qualified: South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Japan 

The only thing left to be decided is whether Syria or Australia will triumph in their play-off and go to a winner-takes-all encounter with a team from CONCACAF (as it stands, Panama). They drew 1-1 in the first leg and conclude matters in Sydney on Tuesday (kick-off 10am British time). 

Australia, with five English-based players including Huddersfield’s in-form Aaron Mooy, have qualified for three World Cups in a row and are favourites for this one.

Australia, who have the in-form Aaron Mooy, have qualified for three World Cups in a row