Huddersfield Town's Holdsworth: Carry on climbing!

Jan 19 2009 by Dougie Thomson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

ANDY HOLDSWORTH says Town will head to Leicester on Saturday confident they can carve out the win which would make the rest of League I sit up and take notice.

Lee Clark’s side climbed to eighth, just four points off the play-off zone, by beating Swindon 2-1 in front of 13,414 (298 away fans) at the Galpharm.

Simon Cox’s stoppage-time goal for Swindon, who had centre-back Patrick Kanyuka sent off in the 65th minute for a professional foul on Jim Goodwin, took a little of the gloss of Clark’s third victory in six games at the helm.

But captain Holdsworth believes there was enough in a performance which featured goals by Michael Collins (in the 51st minute) and Andy Butler (60th) to suggest Town can mark their first visit to Leicester since 1996 with a three-point haul.

“It’s a great game to have coming up,” said the right-back.

“For most of us, it will be a first visit to what looks like an excellent stadium, it will be a big crowd, with plenty of our fans there I’m sure, and it’s the kind of match you want to play in.