Charlton slumped to a fourth successive defeat – their seventh in the last nine games – at The Valley on Tuesday evening.
Matty Daly’s stoppage time strike was enough for Huddersfield to take all three points.
The Valley’s lowest league gate of the season witnessed a turgid affair on an awful night in south London. Driving rain on a cold night, in the run up to Christmas persuaded many to stay at home.
Huddersfield – with plenty of injury problems of their own – had the better of things, but the Addicks came more into the game in the last 30 minutes.
Substitute, Lyle Taylor, had the ball in the net five minutes from time, but Naby Sarr was adjudged offside in the build up.
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Lee Bowyer was understandably disappointed with the result, and said this after the game:
”We didn’t get anything that we deserved from the game today. I thought that my players gave absolutely everything, they’re crawling off the pitch.
“It’s difficult to take again. We score a goal that gets disallowed for offside – He’s not offside.
“I don’t know what to say. The officials have cost us tonight and then they go and get one at the end. In the second-half it only looked like one team was going to win it and that was us. We were on the front foot. And yet we’ve come away with nothing.
“It’s tough because the players, apart from Saturday, have given me absolutely everything in every game.
“Saturday we were off it and that’s going to happen from time to time because we’re down to bare bones.
“But, looking at where we are, we can’t forget what our goal is for this season and that’s to stay in the league.
“As we speak now we’re above where people expected us to be and we’ve got a load of players out! Before we started losing all of those players we were sitting comfortably. “Once we start dripping them back into the squad it will only improve us, and we’ll start picking up a lot more points.
“No doubt, it’s a tough period for us but I believe in the lads that I have and we have to try and grind something out and that’s what we’re trying to do at the moment.”
Charlton: Phillips; Solly, Lockyer, Pearce, Sarr, Purrington; Gallagher, Pratley, Doughty (Vennings 73); Bonne, Leko (Taylor 68).
Subs (not used): Maynard-Brewer, Matthews, Oshilaja, Ledley, Morgan.
Booked: Gallagher 31 (foul), Bonne 46 (foul), Lockyer 87 (handball).
Huddersfield Town: Grabara,; Edmunds-Green, Schindler, Stankovix, Hadergional; Kachunga, Hogg, Bacuna, Koroma (Simpson 73); Mounie (Daly 76), Grant.
Subs (not used): Coleman, Harratt, High, Austerfield, Jackson.
Goal: Daly 90.
Booked: Gorenc Stankovic 27 (foul ), Kachunga 36 (foul) .
Referee: Graham Scott (Oxford).
Attn: 13,488 (680 Huddersfield).