Match report: Huddersfield Town 2 - 2 Leeds United
Mar 1 2010 by Dougie Thomson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Huddersfield Town 2 Leeds United 2
Danny Drinkwater won possession and pushed forward, picking out Novak, who set up Pilkington with a neat pass.
Ankergren was beaten all ends up, remaining rooted to his line as Pilkington’s shot took a big deflection off left-back Shane Lowry and flew in for his eighth goal of the campaign.
It was just the start Town were looking for, and it needed a vital touch from Leeds skipper Richard Naylor to stop Pilkington’s 24th-minute cross being converted.
Soon after Pilkington, teed up by Antony Kay’s pass, cut inside from the right and unleashed a curling left-foot effort which went just wide.
Then, in the 41st minute, top-scorer Jordan Rhodes had a gilt-edged chance to double the lead from right-back Peltier’s cross, only to shoot over from the edge of the six-yard box.
Fears that Town would live to regret those misses seemed to be coming true as Leeds took a grip early in the second half.
Jermaine Beckford headed over from Michael Doyle’s cross, and as Simon Grayson’s team turned the screw, Howson passed to Snodgrass then met the midfielder’s cross from the right with a well-placed header past Smithies.
Now Leeds’ 3,995 travelling fans were the ones making the noise, especially after Becchio met Naylor’s flick-on from Snodgrass’s corner to register his 11th of the season.
Town, to their credit, replied with real spirit, and Rhodes put a header across the face of goal before Clarke’s header from a Roberts corner hit the base of an upright.
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Novak, chasing his 12th Town goal, couldn’t believe it when Ankergren stuck up a gloved hand to parry his flick from Dean Heffernan’s booming cross in the 75th minute.
Then Kay flashed a shot wide from the edge of the area.
Thank goodness for Roberts!
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