Huddersfield Town 3-0 Blackburn Rovers: Sorba Thomas on target in Terriers victory

Delano Burgzorg (right) celebrates with Sorba Thomas after scoring Huddersfield's third goal

Sorba Thomas scored against former club Blackburn to set up Huddersfield's biggest win of the season.

Thomas, who spent the second half of last season on loan at Ewood Park, set up Jaheim Headley to open the scoring.

The Wales winger doubled the Terriers' lead in the second half before Delano Burgzorg made it 3-0.

Huddersfield's victory moves them five points clear of the bottom three while Blackburn have now lost four of their past five games.

Huddersfield started on the front foot, with Thomas firing over at the far post and then helping David Kasumu's ball goalward, but Rovers keeper Leopold Wahlstedt did well to scoop it off the line.

However, Wahlstedt's standards slipped 10 minutes later when Ben Miles and Thomas combined to tee up Headley, who let fly with a left-foot drive that flew underneath the keeper and into the net.

The Terriers encountered goalkeeping problems of their own towards the end of the first half as Chris Maxwell - deputising for injured first-choice Lee Nicholls - pulled a muscle as he stretched for a through ball and had to go off.

Maxwell's injury heralded a debut for young Australian Jacob Chapman - but he was largely a spectator as Huddersfield continued to dominate after the restart.

Jack Rudoni initiated the move that brought about their second goal, threading a pass down the left for Burgzorg to collect, squaring the ball for the unmarked Thomas to tuck away.

Rudoni might have won a penalty soon afterwards when he tried to take the ball around Wahlstedt and went down under the keeper's challenge.

But the midfielder was the architect of Town's third goal, winning possession on the halfway line and releasing substitute Josh Koroma, who teed up Burgzorg to find the net for the sixth time this season.

Blackburn rarely looked likely to reduce the deficit although Jake Garrett and Callum Brittain both fired over from distance.

Huddersfield manager Darren Moore told BBC Radio Leeds:

"What we spoke about after the Norwich result (on Saturday) was that, when you look back at the two goals conceded, we just felt it was through lapse of concentration.

"We know small margins can decide games and we knew we had to be concentrating so we showed (the players) video footage of Blackburn - they're a high-risk, high-reward team and we had to be defensively sound.

"What you saw today was the concentration levels being spot on rather than leaving things to chance. We keep things honest at the training ground.

"I thought the off-the-ball work was good, that was part one - and number two, in transition we were effective."

Blackburn head coach Jon Dahl Tomasson told BBC Radio Lancashire:

"It was a disappointing result and performance. When we conceded the first goal, it gave confidence to the crowd and the Huddersfield players and we were chasing the game.

"We were not able to play through them with one or two touches, we were running with the ball and going sideways or backwards.

"I must apologise to our fans - almost 3,000 of them travelling on Boxing Day. Today was the lowest performance in the season.

"The good thing with football is that there's another game in a few days."