Birmingham City fell to their second successive Championship defeat as they lost 2-0 to high-flying Huddersfield Town on Saturday afternoon.
An unfortunate own-goal from Gary Gardner gave the visitors the lead before what can only be described as comical defending gifted the Terriers their second right before the half.
Gardner and Kristian Pedersen got in each other’s way which led to the former kicking the ball against a Huddersfield man and ricocheting it right into the path of Lewis O’Brien who prodded home one of the easiest goals of his career.
Blues also lost Lyle Taylor and Maxime Colin to injury on the day. Taylor pulled up in the warm-up whilst Colin went down with a no-contact injury early in the first-half.
As it has done all season at St Andrew’s - when it rains, it pours.
Here’s our player ratings from the clash which saw the Terriers stretch their unbeaten run to 17.
Birmingham City (4-2-3-1): Etheridge; Graham, Colin (25’ Sunjic), Pedersen, Bela; Woods, Gardner; Bacuna, James (65’ Chong), Hernandez; Jutkiewicz
Subs not used: Richards, Trueman, Oakley, Campbell
Huddersfield Town (4-3-3): Nicholls; Toffolo, Pearson, Hogg, O’Brien, Rhodes (79’ Ward), Thomas (89’ Koroma), Holmes (77’ Sinani), Turton, Colwill, Russell
Sub not used: Blackman, Ruffels, Sarr, Eiting
1. Neil Etheridge - 5
Didn’t actually have too much to do other than pick the ball out of his net. His kicking was off all day again, though. | Getty Images
2. Jordan Graham - 6
A decent performance filling in at right-back again. Faded in the second-half. | Getty Images
3. Maxime Colin - 6
Suffered a non-contact injury around 20 minutes in. Tried to run it off but couldn’t do so. Replaced by Ivan Sunjic. Photo: www.jmpuk.com
4. Kristian Pedersen - 5
Was part of the almighty calamity that was the second goal. Did OK filling in out of position aside from that. | 2019 Getty Images Photo: Marc Atkins