A late equaliser from Josh Bowler earned 10-man Blackpool what may show a significant level in an exhilarating 2-2 draw with fellow Championship strugglers Huddersfield.
Bowler pounced within the ninetieth minute so as to add to Andy Lyons’ effort and cancel out targets from Matty Pearson and Josh Koroma, guaranteeing it completed honours even in a full-blooded encounter at Bloomfield Street.
The draw means it’s now 12 video games with out a win within the Championship for Mick McCarthy’s males, who not less than ended a run of two consecutive defeats to stay twenty third within the desk whereas the Terriers are twenty second.
The guests had the higher of the early exchanges, with the primary actual opening coming within the 18th minute when Martyn Waghorn’s effort was effectively saved by Chris Maxwell within the Blackpool objective.
Simply three minutes later it was Jonathan Hogg’s flip to return shut for City, firing previous the left-hand publish after a set-piece routine.
It took the house facet some time to develop into the sport, who responded with efforts from Jerry Yates and Sonny Carey as they seemed to hit their opponents on the counter.
But it surely was the Terriers whose dominance was lastly rewarded when Pearson prodded the ball dwelling after Blackpool didn’t clear the hazard on the sting of their very own space.
The Tangerines rallied within the closing levels of the primary half with Carey and Curtis Nelson each having alternatives to stage.
Their job was made all of the harder seconds earlier than the break, nevertheless, when Gary Madine acquired a straight purple card for what seemed to be an elbow on Tom Lees.
A objective to the nice and with a participant benefit, the Terriers seemed to claim their dominance after the break and will have prolonged their lead with David Kasumu and Waghorn each lacking good alternatives.
Scott Excessive and Lees additionally had alternatives to double the guests’ lead whereas Kenny Dougall blazed his effort excessive and broad following a uncommon sortie into the opposition half by the house facet.
And the guests had been made to rue their missed probabilities when Lyons discovered the underside nook with a intelligent effort with the surface of his boot from the right-hand facet of the field within the 82nd minute.
Huddersfield appeared to have snatched all three factors when Koroma steered the ball dwelling from the sting of the field with 4 minutes on the clock to ship the travelling City followers wild with delight.
However with the house facet staring a 3rd straight defeat within the face, Bowler popped as much as pressure the ball dwelling from shut vary and provides Mick McCarthy his first level as Blackpool supervisor on his sixty fourth birthday.
