{"id":159641,"date":"2025-11-25T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159641\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:22:07","slug":"luton-town-2-1-huddersfield-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159641\/","title":{"rendered":"Luton Town 2-1 Huddersfield Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luton earned the first home league win of manager Jack Wilshere&#8217;s reign after beating Huddersfield at Kenilworth Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts threatened early on when Jerry Yates saw his volley turned behind by goalkeeper Owen Goodman, but they did take a deserved lead in the 34th minute when Jake Richards&#8217; first-time effort from 22 yards out took a slight nick to wrongfoot the Terriers stopper and fly into the net.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richards was denied a second moments later before Huddersfield went close, Ben Wiles having appeals for a penalty turned down when his shot appeared to strike Nigel Lonwijk&#8217;s arm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the break, Lamine Fanne was off target from 20 yards for Luton, but Huddersfield levelled in stunning fashion in the 64th minute when Castledine curled a brilliant 25-yard free-kick into the top corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the Hatters were back in front in the 71st minute when Lamine Fanne&#8217;s effort was parried by Goodman, the midfielder&#8217;s rebound beating the keeper for Yates to slide over the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goodman did repel Fanne&#8217;s low drive moments later while, in stoppage time, Hakeem Odoffin nodded wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Report supplied by PA Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luton earned the first home league win of manager Jack Wilshere&#8217;s reign after beating Huddersfield at Kenilworth Road.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-159641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}