KEEPER Lee Nicholls believes Huddersfield Town have proven they’re a “hard team to beat” during 2023-24 – but must now turn draws into wins to secure Championship survival.
The Terriers sit third-bottom in the relegation zone on goal difference despite a record of 15 defeats being one fewer than top-10 play-off hopefuls Middlesbrough.
But a division high of 15 draws has left the West Yorkshire outfit embroiled in a dogfight involving at least nine teams going into the final six weeks of the campaign.
Against those other eight struggling sides, Huddersfield have lost just two from 13 contests this term and Nicholls told The FLP: “We’ve not lost too many games, so we’ve already proven that we’re a hard team to beat, but now we’ve got to try and turn the draws into wins.
“The Championship is a strange old league. There are four clubs going for automatic promotion, even more going for the play-offs, then even more again that are involved in the relegation fight, so I think, if we can string a couple of wins together, that would go a long way to getting some confidence in and around the place and moving up the table.”
The potential rewards if those “couple of wins” could come in the club’s first two fixtures of April at Stoke and against Millwall, currently two points and four points ahead of the Terriers respectively, are not lost on Nicholls.
Massive
He said: “Those games will be huge because you really don’t want to lose those kind of six-pointers, but I feel every game from now on will be massive and we’ll go into them all wanting to win.”
The former MK Dons keeper, 31, has played under eight different managers – six permanent and two caretakers – during less than three seasons with the Terriers.
Half of those have come this season with Neil Warnock, Darren Moore and Jon Worthington preceding ex-Schalke boss Andre Brietenreiter, who took over the reins last month. Ex-England under-21 international Nicholls said: “That amount of change for any team at any level is tough because every manager has different philosophies and traini
