What Leeds United can expect from improving Huddersfield Town and division's fourth most potent marksman

PROLIFIC: Huddersfield Town's Karlan Grant fires home a penalty in last month's 2-1 win at home to Bristol City. A brace in Saturday's 4-0 win at home to Charlton Athletic followed, putting Grant on 16 goals for the campaign. Picture by Bruce Rollinson.

Boss Danny Cowley was overseeing his 14th game in charge when the Terriers took on United at the John Smith's on December 7 - a fixture in which goals from Gjanni Alioski and Pablo Hernandez sealed a 2-0 victory for the Whites.

That triumph condemned Town to a third defeat from their last five games and a haul of just two points from a last possible 15.

With Leeds moving top, the result left the Terriers fourth-bottom and just two points above the dropzone but with Cowley confident he could turn matters around.

"It's not terminal here, but there is a storm," he said after the Whites defeat in December.

"We have to roll with the punches and get over these disappointments."

Sure enough, ten points out of a next possible 15 followed and the Terriers now sit 17th and four points clear of the dropzone following back-to-back home wins and a 4-0 thumping of visiting Charlton Athletic at the weekend.

Prior to that success, Bristol City were also beaten 2-1 at the John Smith's and highly-rated 22-year-old striker Karlan Grant has netted three in his last two games.

Grant is now on 16 for the season and with Jarrod Bowen now at West Ham only three Championship strikers have more this term in Nottingham Forest's Lewis Grabban (17), Brentford's Ollie Watkins (22) and Fulham's Aleksandar Mitrovic (23).

Grant's goals have helped Huddersfield into a position where they are as big as 10-1 to go down though Fraizer Campbell has been playing the lone striker role in a 4-2-3-1 system of late with Grant, Benfica loanee Chris Willock and Arsenal loanee Emile Smith Rowe in behind.

Campbell has not scored since November with the forward having gone 699 minutes since netting but the importance of his hard work and hold up play has been saluted by Cowley who has also been raving about the performances of centre midfielder Lewis O'Brien.

The Town boss has also said there will be no days off in training this week ahead of Saturday's clash at Leeds with Cowley continually looking for more.

"I still don’t think we played for 90 minutes today but we’ll never be happy," said the Town boss after Saturday's victory.

"We’ll always be striving for more and trying to strive for perfect."

Turning attention to the clash at Elland Road, Cowley said: “It is a great game. We know how important it is for the club and our supporters.

“It is good to have a clean week. But we will certainly not be having any time off. We have to prepare and build and keep working."