🎥 EFL Performance of the Weekend: Bielsa's assistant takes flight | OneFootball

🎥 EFL Performance of the Weekend: Bielsa's assistant takes flight | OneFootball

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Alex Mott·20 October 2020

🎥 EFL Performance of the Weekend: Bielsa's assistant takes flight

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Huddersfield have become well-known for their left-field coaching appointments in recent seasons.

Since former England left-back Chris Powell left the club in 2015, the Terriers have hired two Borussia Dortmund assistants – with varying degrees of success – a former PE teacher and his brother, and now Marcelo Bielsa’s former right-hand man.


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Carlos Corberán was always going to be a shot in the dark for Huddersfield, a coach who cut his teeth under El Loco but had not previously managed a senior side.

It hasn’t been the best of starts to life in the Championship for the Spanish tactician, just one win in four before this weekend.

But the Yorkshire side silenced their doubters on Saturday as they went to in-form Swansea and came away with all three points.

In an open, enthralling, tightly-contested game, Huddersfield went 1-0 up thanks to Harry Toffolo’s piece of first half ingenuity before Josh Koroma netted the winner on 67 minutes.


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It wasn’t too long ago that Hull were a fairly regular fixture in the Premier League and a trip to the KC was considered something of a banana skin for any side.

It’s an unceremonious slide down the divisions for the Tigers in recent years though, to a point where not many people thought they’d get out of League One come the end of this term.

Their start to the 2020/21 campaign, however, would suggest that Grant McCann’s men have everything to be one of the promotion candidates this time around.

They beat Rochdale 3-0 away from home this weekend with Mallik Wilks grabbing two either side of half time to take Hull up to second in the table.