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Huddersfield 0-1 Birmingham: Keshi Anderson wondergoal steers Blues to victory
Report and free match highlights from the Sky Bet League One match between Huddersfield Town and Birmingham City at the John Smith's Stadium on Tuesday night; Keshi Anderson scored wondergoal for Blues
Tuesday 28 January 2025 22:59, UK
Keshi Anderson's second-half strike proved enough as League One leaders Birmingham made it 12 league games unbeaten when they saw off fellow promotion-hopefuls Huddersfield 1-0 at the John Smith's Stadium.
The visitors will have been the more disappointed of the two sides to go in still goalless at the break after failing to make the most of two of the biggest chances of the first half.
Huddersfield goalkeeper Jacob Chapman denied Lyndon Dykes' strike to the near post from a narrow angle early on, while Christoph Klarer headed over the crossbar from close range off Alex Cochrane's crossed free-kick.
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But it did not take long for the league leaders to go ahead after the restart, with Anderson's brilliant bit of chest control on the edge of the box teeing him up perfectly to smash a dipping effort past the helpless Chapman.
Injuries to Birmingham's Tomoki Iwata and Huddersfield's Tom Lees made for a lengthy period of stoppage time but the Blues were able to see out their victory, with goalkeeper Ryan Allsop remaining almost entirely untroubled.
Davies: It was a great win for us
Birmingham boss Chris Davies:
"I thought it was a great win for us. We wanted to come here and get a result and I think we were very, very good in the first half. We could have been two, three goals up with the sort of situations we were creating.
"The message at half-time was to continue on doing what was working well and just to continue to do that and believe that that would result in a goal.
"I don't think we gave much away defensively and I spoke about the need for real quality and moments in games and Keshi Anderson has produced a high-quality technical action to get us in front.
"We had to see the game out and defend a lot of long balls and set pieces and we did that well.
"What I've found in this league is you can look at the names and the venues but every game is going to be tough.
"We need to continue doing what we're doing and not rest on our laurels, but we're very pleased with the week we've had coming here and going to Wrexham."
