Huddersfield Town have been put through the wringer for the way they played themselves into trouble against Watford.

On Sky TV's Goals on Sunday programme, Chris Kamara and former Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson lamented how Jan Siewert's side put themselves on the back foot by giving away Gerard Deulofeu's opener inside five minutes.

It came after Tommy Smith played a long back pass to Jonas Lossl. The goalkeeper's pass to Jonathan Hogg was slightly mis-controlled and Watford blocked his attempted pass to Aaron Mooy, setting up a successful three against two attack stalled only, for a few seconds, by a brilliant covering tackle from Terence Kongolo.

Kamara explained: "Me and Nigel both played for Howard Wilkinson and he would have been so angered by this goal, he really would.

"You win the header in the first place and, when you are going to lay this ball off to your right back, Tommy Smith , you would expect the ball to be dropped over the back line (towards the corner) and you would run.

"I'm not going back to the dark ages, but you would do that to say 'let's just turn the opposition'.

"In the Premier League these days it isn't about that, though. You don't want to give the ball away."

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Kamara illustrated a diagonal run which could have been made by Mounie to chase the supposed forward pass down the right touchline.

"But to keep it, they go all the way back from that half way line to their own goalkeeper," he said.

"So now they are trying to thread balls into that midfield, hoping the midfielder (Hogg) can now pick a pass out around the corner to Mooy. He can't and, all of a sudden, it's three v two and you are in trouble."

Pearson joined in with his own comments: "If you want to play a possession game and, technically, you are not good enough to do it then you are going to cause problems.

"When you are in possession you want a pretty expansive shape to give yourself options. The problem with that is if you lose the ball you are struggling.

"From no danger on the half way line, they've conceded a goal."

He added: "Your game has to be based on what your players are capable of.

"People need to have a philosophy on how they play, for sure, but if you inherit a side, you've got to be flexible enough to tweak that based on the capabilities of the players.

"That goal is an example of getting yourself into trouble when there is really not a great need for it."

Kamara rounded off by saying Town would regret giving a number of games away this season and not giving themselves a chance.