David Wagner pointed to Huddersfield Town’s bad defending at set pieces for costing them the 3-1 home defeat to Burnley.

The Championship leaders went two up inside half an hour through Stephen Ward (14) and Sam Vokes (30), and while Joe Lolley gave Town hope with his fourth goal of the season, Ben Mee put Burnley two ahead once more.

Ward and Mee scored from set pieces and Wagner said: “The story of this game is easy to tell.

“We played against a very strong side who are very focused, very concentrated and very aggressive in their game plan, but we conceded two goals from set pieces and they were mistakes which were too easy.

“We created the second one against ourselves with mistakes and that made it hard to take, especially after the momentum of Joe Lolley’s goal.

“The body language at half time showed that disappointment and I wasn’t satisfied because, in the first half, we weren’t brave enough. That’s why we gave them two set piece goals.

“I said to them at half time that we had to learn from that and be brave to stay in our identity and play our football.

“In the second half we did a very good job. We had good chances to score and stay on the front foot, putting pressure on a very good side.

“We have to accept the defeat and move on, but I thought the set pieces were the key moments.”

Wagner defending making four changes to the side which had beaten Reading 3-1 in midweek as his side dropped to just six points above the relegation zone ahead of the West Yorkshire derby with Leeds United.

"I think we made the right decision (on the team)," he said.

"You have to be focused on the next opposition and selection is not based on the last match.

"We made four changes and all of them were because we wanted to keep fresh bodies in the team.

"We also wanted a bench where we can beat our opponent with fresh players when they come on, so we can keep our speed and full throttle for the whole game.

"In the second half we were able to do that. The only problem was we didn't score in the second half and we conceded too many in the first half."