After seven games unbeaten, Huddersfield Town were brought back down to earth with something of a bump on Saturday afternoon, as they lost 3-1 to Preston North End at Deepdale.

With Jayden Stockley's goal inside five minutes putting the Terriers on the back foot from the start, and Alan Browne's strike just past the half-hour leaving them with a mountain to climb at the break, Paul Gallagher's penalty just after half-time left Huddersfield facing an almost impossible task against a side unbeaten at home in the league all season.

Indeed, even with Juninho Bacuna's late strike giving them a glimmer of hope, the pressure that finally came from Danny Cowley's side in the final ten minutes of the game would ultimately amount to nothing.

One man who was appeared to be unusually quiet at Deepdale on Saturday was Karlan Grant, with the striker, who has been so prolific for the Terriers this season, seemingly struggling to make an impact at Deepdale.

So just how did Grant fare against Preston on Saturday?

Here, we put the spotlight on the striker's performance in order to find out.

When you look at the stats, they do seem to show that the striker was not his usual defence troubling self against.

Despite the fact that he was on the pitch for the full 100 minutes - including stoppages - on Saturday, Grant was able to muster just a single shot against Preston, an effort he dragged wide from the edge of the area with when the Terriers were already 3-0 down during the second half.

Given his nine goals in 15 games this season leading up to this game, Huddersfield will surely have expected more than that on Saturday, although in truth, it seems as though Grant was never really going to trouble the Preston defence on Saturday.

With the 21-year-old winning just one of his nine offensive duels at Deepdale, there can be no doubting that the Preston defence were ready to take on the man most likely to cause them problems with his finishing for Huddersfield, and it seems as though that extends into other areas of the game as well.

Across the course of the game, Grant would enter just two duels in the air, winning neither of them, meaning it seems as though that was not an outlet to their main man that Huddersfield were able to exploit either.

Indeed, with Grant touching the ball just twice in the Preston area all game, the striker was never really in a position to make an impact against the promotion chasers.

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That is something which not only feels to be a reflection of how well Preston were able to restrict Grant on Saturday, but also an indicator of how effective the pressure they applied on the Terriers as a whole was, given how they were able to supply their attackers such as Grant in the key areas of the pitch.

Furthermore, while a pass success rate of 65% is reasonably solid for a striker, that alone does not feel like a significant enough contribution from Grant, given the expectation there is on him now.

In fairness to the striker, it does feel as though he is entitled to an off day given what he has done already this season, and that this may have been as much down to Preston's abilities as it was to his struggles.

The challenge to Huddersfield now therefore, is to find a way of coping with a similar situation to this in the future, otherwise there could be more results like this than the Terriers would like, and indeed afford.