This article is part of Football League World’s ‘Player view’ series, this content strand is where we put ourselves in the shoes of a given player, and offer an opinion-based outlook on the perspective on the situation at hand…

Huddersfield’s recent resurgence has seen Juninho Bacuna receive praise for his successive substitute performances in Town’s first two wins of the season.

Huddersfield recorded their first two wins of the season in the space of a week when they saw off Stoke 1-0 and beat Hull City 3-0 at home. The midfielder, Bacuna, played a crucial role in both games, scoring the winner at Stoke, then assisting and scoring a goal against the Tigers last weekend.

Huddersfield have endured a torrid start to the season up until recently. They were sitting in the bottom three for the majority and not picking up a single win until they Cowley Brothers were appointed in September. Since then, they have slowly begun to build momentum, before picking up seven points out of a possible nine heading into this international break.

Juninho Bacuna has relished this fresh start under new management, dragging Huddersfield out of the bottom three with his goal contributions. What is more important though is his overall play, providing Huddersfield with something they have so sorely missed since their free-fall over the past 18 months. This is simply just the confidence to express himself in the final third and create chances out of nothing.

In Bacuna, Huddersfield have found a means to score and provide goals from midfield, which forward, Karlan Grant, will be very grateful for. Grant has hit the ground running since signing from Charlton in January, scoring five goals this campaign, most recently against Hull, assisted by Bacuna.

Why Grant is very important to Bacuna’s continuing development is that having a red-hot striker to feed is any midfielder’s dream, and allows him to have the confidence to give him service whenever, knowing that it will pay dividends. 

From a tactical perspective, it may be wise to maintain the same structure for the next game as the current system has seen Huddersfield win two and draw one from the last three, with the old saying standing to reason: ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’.  However, from Bacuna’s perspective, he may be hoping that after the international break, Danny Cowley will reward his brilliant substitute appearances with a place in the starting eleven, after all, he clearly deserves a chance at least due to single-handedly putting Huddersfield into the lead in both wins.

Huddersfield have a run for the rest of October following into November where the squad will fancy their chances to rise up the table further, with Bacuna, in particular, confident that he will have a major part to play in the coming weeks.