Hull City 1-0 Huddersfield Town: Liam Delap's late winner gives Tigers a vital win against the Terriers

Liam Delap scored his fifth goal of the season in Hull's win against Huddersfield

Liam Delap's late strike finally found a way through Huddersfield's stubborn rearguard to make it three wins from four for Hull.

The Manchester City loanee struck as the game moved into added time just when it seemed a fighting effort from the Terriers would earn them a second successive goalless draw.

Delap had hit the bar minutes earlier, in a game of few chances, but snapped up his late opportunity to give Hull a much-needed fillip after they lost at West Brom last week.

Defeat leaves Huddersfield with just one win in their last 10 games to leave them one place and four points above the relegation zone while the three points boosts Hull to the fringes of the play-off places.

Huddersfield have a good recent record at the MKM Stadium, with two wins and a draw from their last three visits, and for long periods of this uneventful game it seemed they would again escape with a point.

Hull have been hard to beat at home, with just two defeats in their last 20 now, but they struggled to break down the Terriers who were boosted by the return of captain Jonathan Hogg from suspension.

Huddersfield winger Sorba Thomas had the first attempt of any real menace, latching on to Yuta Nakayama's pass, cutting inside from the left flank and shooting just wide, while Terriers keeper Lee Nicholls kept out efforts from Jaden Philogene and Ozan Tufan as the home side began to step it up.

Shortly after the re-start, Delap got on the end of a clever free-kick routine when Scott Twine chipped the ball over the Huddersfield wall to free Tufan and the Turkey international unselfishly squared the ball only for the on-loan striker to mis-kick the chance wide.

Delap sought to make amends by teeing up Twine, but he also shot wide, and, as the clock ticked down, Tufan's cross was headed against the woodwork to add to Hull's growing frustration.

With nine minutes added on, Hull made one last push and got their reward in the 92nd minute when substitute Ruben Vinagre crossed and Philogene neatly cushioned the ball into the path of Delap, whose fifth goal of the season gave the Tigers their first win over Huddersfield since 2015.

Hull manager Liam Rosenior told BBC Radio Humberside:

"Anything other than three points would have been a huge disappointment to us based on what we want to achieve this season and, secondly, on the fact we should have scored more goals.

"It's a recurring thing but the dominance and control we have in games, and the respect teams are starting to give us in this league, says a lot for where we've been and where we're hopefully heading.

"Hopefully that's a massive goal when we look back at it at the end of the season. We created so many good moments and (finishing them) is something we have to get better at, but I'm delighted we have got the three points to take into the international break.

"Fair play to Liam (Delap) because he's been outstanding. Good strikers keep getting chances and he took his goal really, really well."

Huddersfield manager Darren Moore told BBC Radio Leeds:

"We didn't allow Hull to get into the areas they wanted to get into, our shape off the ball was excellent and we limited Hull all afternoon to long-range efforts and minimal chances.

"Playing this way, the possession stats will be in their favour but it's the attempts on goal and clear-cut chances that were nullified.

"On the flip side I thought we used the ball better than we did against Watford, got into some threatening areas on the counter and caused them some problems.

"When you see the goal we conceded - the way the ball has ricocheted and who it's fallen to - it could have gone anywhere but it ended up with them and they've stuck it in the back of the net so it's a bitter one to swallow."