I knew that would mean they’d get joy elsewhere, but I’d take that. Paddy is as good as anything I’ve seen in this league so Wardy man-marked him. I didn’t know he would score two goals though, I’m not that much of a prophet!”Īnd going into more detail on his half-time tweaks, the 74-year-old veteran continued: “I give Josh a bit of a rollicking at half time and he came up with a great goal, so I’ll have to do that a bit more often. We worked on the back post and that worked with Matty Pearson. “We just concentrated on where we thought we could get something from it and it came up trumps today. I cut a lot out of what we show them about opponents before a game, if I’m honest, because there wasn’t a lot of bad stuff to show them! It was an important match against a really good team. They find the space and we’d have been crucified. We knew we couldn’t go gung-ho because we’d have been absolutely picked off today. “We worked on what we had to do and it worked thankfully. They steamroll teams when they get the chance. You couldn’t wish for a better start to the half than that really, but I think before that you could sense they just felt it was going to be another one of those games. I wanted us to get on the front foot more and get the crowd going. But I wasn’t too disappointed because our goalie didn’t have a save to make. I felt at half-time Boro might be over-confident because they were so much in control. “I just thought we wanted it that little bit more in that second half. But if you take your foot off the pedal in the Championship you get punished. Warnock dissected after: “That’s the Championship, isn’t it? I bet when they went in at half-time they thought it would almost be a piece of cake from there. READ MORE: Neil Warnock says Huddersfield's Middlesbrough win was as good as any in his whole career From there most would have been expecting Boro to kick on and win comfortably, as they have done so often under Michael Carrick.īut with a few tactical tweaks and a change of mindset at the interval, Warnock was able to mastermind a 4-2 victory for the Terriers against his former side - strengthening Huddersfield's fight for safety, while denting Boro's chances of pipping Sheffield United to second. Neil Warnock revealed he had an inkling that Middlesbrough would be overconfident coming out for the second half, and sent his Huddersfield players out with the message to be more positive.īoro had struggled to break a stubborn Huddersfield defence down despite their first-half dominance but finally found the breakthrough just two minutes before the interval through Marcus Forss.
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