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Huddersfield Town secured their first victory of the Championship season on Tuesday night with a 1-0 win at fellow strugglers Stoke City, to lift the mood around the club and give Danny Cowley his first win in charge of the Terriers.

Indeed, not only was it Huddersfield's first win in their tenth league game of the campaign, it was also the Terriers' first three points since they beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 at the The John Smith's Stadium back in February, in a win which did very little to halt their slide towards relegation from the Premier League.

That victory was Jan Siewert's first and ultimately last win as Huddersfield manager, with the German sacked after just three Championship games this term following a 2-1 home defeat to Fulham, but there is much more optimism that this time Cowley's first win in charge can be a catalyst to lift the club and help them start to head back in the right direction.

Cowley had already made an impression on Huddersfield's performances, if not on their results, in his first three matches in charge with the Terriers losing at home to Sheffield Wednesday and away to West Bromwich Albion, despite putting much-improved displays for the majority of the games, before a 1-1 draw at home to Millwall last weekend.

For large spells in all of Huddersfield's first three games under Cowley the Terriers had shown an improvement in terms of their work rate and their ability to control the tempo in matches, but they were prevented from picking up more than just a single point by individual errors and moments of lapses in concentration at the back.

That is symptomatic of the situation that Huddersfield find themselves in, with confidence on the floor and the players seemingly unable to respond when they are put under any sort of sustained period of pressure by their opponents, in essence it is that much alluded to losing mentality which gets accused of teams who are in bad periods in form.

Cowley's first task at Huddersfield was always going to be how quickly he could transform that mentality and provide his players with the belief that they can still take points from matches even when not at their best, and for the first time on Tuesday night against Stoke that was really on show for the full ninety minutes.

Huddersfield's performance certainly will not live long in the memory in terms of its style and flow, with Cowley's side having just four efforts on goal all game, but it was one that combined a defensive resilience to dig in and keep Stoke at bay when they were on top with that all important moment of attacking quality, with Juninho Bacuna coming off the bench to fire home an 83rd minute winner.

It was a game that neither Huddersfield, or Stoke, could afford to lose, and equally a game they both really needed to take three points from, and the fact that Cowley's side ultimately handled the occasion the better suggests that he is beginning to change the Terriers mentality and belief.

After recent results, Cowley stated that his side had forgotten how to win, against Stoke on Tuesday, they managed to rediscover that ability, and that must now give them belief to go on a run starting with Saturday's meeting with Hull City at the John Smith's Stadium.