Bo Hansen's two-goal blast kept Bolton's Division One promotion flame
flickering.
The Dane opened his account in the ninth minute with a diving header and added
to his tally with a low drive just before the half-hour.
Those strikes, together with Mike Whitlow's close-range header, left the
Wanderers hovering just outside the play-off picture with only a handful of
games left to go.
The result came as a shock to the system for Huddersfield, who were looking to
stretch their unbeaten run to nine games.
But Town are still odds-on to finish above their Lancashire promotion rivals
by the end of the campaign.
An Allan Johnston snapshot fell into Nico Vaesen's arms in the eighth minute,
but Hansen went one better moments later.
His diving header at the far post from a deep Johnston cross from the left
gave the Terriers' Belgian goalkeeper no chance.
Earlier, Clyde Wijnhard had an effort ruled out for offside.
Huddersfield piled on the pressure in search of an equaliser, with Chris Hay
blazing over from 15 yards after good work by Chris Holland and Chris Beech.
Then Hay won possession running back into an onside position, and his
first-time ball to Wijnhard fell into the path of Holland who sliced wide as he
ran in from the left.
Hansen scored his second on 26 minutes. Eidur Gudjohnsen ghosted past Craig
Armstrong on the right, after Steve Jenkins lost possession to the
Scandinavian.
The midfielder then cut back for Hansen to drill a low shot past the
outstretched hands of Vaesen.
The Dane was denied a hat-trick on 36 minutes when Vaesen forced the striker
wide from a Gudjohnsen cross.
After the break the hosts poured forward in further numbers to get back into
the game.
Beech unleashed a crisp drive, and a Martin Smith header was cleared by
full-back Bergsson.
Then a second Smith header dropped wide of Jussi Jaaskelainen's right-hand
post from a Jamie Vincent centre.
But in between Bolton had put the game beyond Huddersfield's reach when Claus
Jensen got to the byline to find Whitlow unmarked in the area, from where he
headed past the stranded figure of Vaesen.
Teams:
Huddersfield: Vaesen, Jenkins, C. Armstrong (Baldry 46),
Monkou, Lucketti, Vincent, Sellars (A. Armstrong 68), Holland,
Beech, Hay (Smith 46), Wijnhard.
Subs Not Used: Margetson, Irons.
Booked: Sellars.
Bolton: Jaaskelainen, Bergsson, Fish (Phillips 65), Ritchie,
Whitlow, Johansen, Jensen, Warhurst (Passi 50), Johnston,
Gudjohnsen, Hansen (Farrelly 74).
Subs Not Used: Banks, Holdsworth.
Goals: Hansen 9, 26, Whitlow 58.
Att: 16,404
Ref: C Foy (St. Helens).
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