Match report: Huddersfield Town 2 - 1 Swindon Town

Jan 19 2009 by Dougie Thomson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Then Butler’s header was tipped away for a corner before Town were denied a penalty on 26 minutes, when Parker tumbled under the combined challenge of Jon-Paul McGovern and Amankwaah.

Jevons stung Brezovan’s fingers with a well-struck 36th-minute shot, then had a 42nd-minute attempt blocked by Kanyuka.

And Town picked up where they left off after the break with Parker’s header being collected by the keeper before Collins finally found a way through, playing a one-two with Parker before drilling the ball home off Brezovan’s right-hand post.

Busy Roberts looked on in frustration as his 56th-minute shot was held, and Town had a let-off when Jack Smith’s free-kick took a deflection off Cox and flew just wide with Smithies helpless.

Even without Kanyuka’s straight red card, Butler’s goal, nodded in from a lovely Cadamarteri cross, should have made the game safe.

And had Jevons’ free-kick (after the sending off) and his sidefooted 72nd-minute volley from another Cadamarteri cross gone in rather than been saved, it surely would have been.

Roberts was denied what would have been a deserved 75th-minute goal when referee Phil Gibbs ruled he had fouled Amankwaah before shooting home, but from then on, too much of the action was at the other end.

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