Sam Allardyce

we should have been better, particularly in the final third again, particularly after the chances we created.

I said to the players, this is the most chances we've created away from home since I've been here and you have failed to score any of those extra chances from the first one and that started us on the back foot in the second half.

Win next week, our own record is 17 out of 8 games, 17 points out of 8 games, but they've put a huge amount of pressure on themselves now, and we have to deal with that, I have to deal with that, and give them the opportunity to...

get in the right frame of mind for Brighton and try and get the three points.

I think it's such a big game today to win, for us to go level with Burnley.

We've had the fantastic season that they've had, and then for us to have got level with them today had we won,

with such a bad season that we've had, it wouldn't have looked quite so bad.

But we've only got ourselves to blame for today's defeat.

Sam, I appreciate your time.

To your six.

Andy, Sam, was it a good plan to play off you today, did you feel?

Thought you held it up well, competing well, caused a lot of problems, particularly first half, so a lot of movement off the front three.

Did he justify his selection?

Oh, I think so.

I think that right from the very start, for me, massive influence on the game.

Continued to keep the pressure on Huddersfield, particularly throughout the first half.

Slab must have been very disappointed that they hadn't scored by half-time with the chances that created.

I think in the end, a little fortunate at the goal, as we know, but this is the game, these are the turning points of a season for you.

They've deserved what they've got, but they were very fortunate to get in front with the goal that they scored.

But you take it when it comes your way, when it's not going so good.