{"id":812592,"date":"2026-10-24T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812592\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:42:10","slug":"huddersfield-town-2-1-wigan-athletic-terriers-maintain-promotion-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812592\/","title":{"rendered":"Huddersfield Town 2-1 Wigan Athletic: Terriers maintain promotion push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Huddersfield maintained their promotion push with a 2-1 victory over bottom side Wigan in League One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ilias Bronkhorst and Derensili Sanches Fernandes were on target for the Terriers, before Christian Saydee replied late on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Huddersfield had to be patient in a game of few clear-cut chances before breaking the deadlock in the 34th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Right-back Bronkhorst opened the scoring for the second game in a row, making a well-timed run to the back post to head home Cameron Humphrey&#8217;s cross from the byline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wigan showed plenty of intent as they tried to get back into the game after the break, but lacked the quality required to create much threat on the Huddersfield goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Terriers doubled their lead 10 minutes from time when Fernandes raced clean through on goalkeeper Joe Whitworth, whose slip allowed the winger the simplest of finishes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saydee curled home for the visitors in added time, but it was too little too late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts have now lost just one league game on their own turf in the past year, while the Latics have taken only a single point on the road since April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Match report supplied by the Press Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huddersfield maintained their promotion push with a 2-1 victory over bottom side Wigan in League One. Ilias Bronkhorst&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-812592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}