Darren Moore aiming to take a leaf out of Tony Mowbray's book as he plots Huddersfield revival

Tony Mowbray's Sunderland face Darren Moore's Huddersfield Town at the Stadium of Light tonight

Huddersfield Town boss Darren Moore says he is trying to take a leaf out of Tony Mowbray's book ahead of the Terriers' trip to Sunderland this evening. Moore succeeded Neil Warnock as Huddersfield boss in September, taking over with the Yorkshire side sitting 16th in the table, but they have continued to struggle and go into tonight's game at the Stadium of Light in 21st place, just above the drop zone.

Former West Brom, Doncaster Rovers, and Sheffield Wednesday manager Moore is still trying to imprint his ideas on the players he inherited, and says he is an admirer of the style of football Mowbray has brought to Sunderland and which took the Black Cats to the Championship play-offs last season. Moore said of Mowbray: "He's done brilliant wherever he's been in the game and wants to play football in the right manner.

"He's got a talented group and we have full respect for what he's doing, and there's elements of it that I'm trying to apply here. It's always a process: to get things right it's not like turning on a light switch.

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"But we want to make sure the progression and the process are going in the right direction."

Huddersfield scored a late equaliser to earn a point at home to Southampton at the weekend, but they have won just one of Moore's ten games in charge. "We can understand the frustrations because the number one thing is to win games and we want to win games," said Moore.

"We're working ever so hard week in, week out to address that. We're trying to get better and stack up those performances because with those performances the results will come.

"We're starting to see more positive performances where we're staying in games for longer periods and that's what you need to have to work towards getting three points. If we keep working on it we'll start seeing the right results."

Under Mowbray's predecessor Alex Neil, Sunderland beat Moore's Sheffield Wednesday in the League One play-off semi-final in May 2022 to book a place in the Wembley final, where they clinched promotion. Moore then led the Owls out of League One last season in dramatic fashion as they overhauled a 4-0 play-off semi-final first-leg deficit against Peterborough United to draw 5-5 on aggregate and then win on penalties, before beating neighbours Barnsley in the final.

But Moore left Hillsborough over the summer after a disagreement with owner Dejphon Chansiri over the future direction of the club, which left him free to take up the role at Huddersfield.