Huddersfield Town v Nottingham Forest: Championship play-off final – live!

68 min It’s all Huddersfield now, at least in terms of possession. Brice Samba still hasn’t had much to do, but Forest are taking a risk by inviting so much pressure.

67 min: Double change for Huddersfield Duane Holmes and Jordan Rhodes replace Danny Ward and the disappointing Danel Sinani.

66 min: Forest substitution Sam Surridge replaces Keinan Davis up front.

64 min Thomas, who has been excellent, beats Colback with ease and drives a low cross that is cleared by McKenna. His positioning at the near post has been immaculate.

62 min It can’t be long before we see Jordan Rhodes. Huddersfield have been better in the second half but they still haven’t really looked like scoring.

60 min Garner picks up a loose ball 30 yards from goal in the inside-left channel. This time he definitely does shoot, and Nicholls moves across his line to make a comfortable save.

58 min With Colback out of the game after a mosey infield, Russell plays a good ball inside Garner to find Thomas on the right. His cross is cleared at the near post by the well-positioned McKenna.

57 min: Huddersfield substitution Jon Russell replaces Naby Sarr, which means Jonathan Hogg will drop into the back three.

56 min Thomas’s corner is headed over at the near post by Hogg. I think the ball came off his shoulder in fact.

56 min Thomas’s dangerous cross is chested behind for a corner by Spence. This is a decent spell for Huddersfield…

56 min Thomas’s free-kick just evades Sarr, who is well blocked by McKenna.

55 min Zinckernagel is booked for fouling O’Brien 35 yards from goal. I’m not sure that was a yellow-card offence, though he got away with one earlier.

53 min Davis nutmegs Lees on the left and curls a dangerous low cross towards Johnson. Colwill gets in front of him to clear.

52 min Plenty of huffing and puffing from Huddersfield since half-time, though it has yet to amount to much.

49 min Huddersfield have started the second half with more intent, as you’d expect after Colwill’s own goal. Sinani and Thomas, the two No10s, have switched sides.

46 min Peep peep! Huddersfield begin the second half. No changes on either side.

I did James Garner a disservice. His ball that led to the goal was a cross/pass, not a shot, and a bloody good one. It had a bit of Trent about it.

“No, I don’t think Forest are universally loved, especially in Derby, but, despite the 1970s era when there was a song starting ‘we hate Nottingham Forest’ as a prequel to all the other hated teams, that was just a matter of scansion,” writes John Starbuck. “Certainly, despite not liking Derby (or Leeds) us Forest fans didn’t have any problems with Leicester City’s ascent. We used to be OK with Arsenal, whom we lent shirts back in the day; Liverpool, because of shared history at Hillsborough, and Manchester United, for whom, post-Munich, we supplied a lot of players, but probably all clubs have these complicated relationships.

“What we do have is two stars on the shirt and that’s kept us going through the barren years. Mind you, my brother-in-law is mad keen and rejects anyone bar the Reds.”

Half time: Huddersfield 0-1 Nottingham Forest

45 min There will be one minute of added time.

The goal came after a long passing move from Forest. Eventually Garner moved inside from the left and tried a pretty optimistic long-range shot. It bounced up awkwardly in the area, was missed by Yates and kneed into the roof of his own net by Levi Colwill. That’s a desperate moment for the teenager Colwill, who had no option but to challenge Yates and ended up scoring himself. Garner’s shot turned into a very difficult ball to defend.

GOAL! Huddersfield 0-1 Forest (Colwill og 43)

42 min “I am sitting in my house here in Alicante in the midst of a heatwave, with 37°C in the shade,” weeps Ant Ashworth. “The longer this stays at 0-0 without a great deal happening, the more likely it is that I succumb to the delights of my swimming pool. I see it’s sunny at Wembley, too – so why is Keinan Davis wearing gloves? My palms get all sweaty just thinking about it.”

Superstition, apparently. You should see his grundies.

41 min It’s tight, it’s tense, it’s the Championship playoff final.

39 min “I can safely assure you that Forest are not universally loved,” says Bert Fill, who has clearly had his surname of that particular suggestion. “And I say that as a Leicester fan. Derby fans are probably still recovering from the absurdity of the notion.”

38 min: Chance for Ward! Garner’s crunching tackle on Ward gives Huddersfield a corner on the left. Thomas slides it deliberately away from goal, where Ward runs round the ball and hits a first-time shot that deflects over the bar. That was a really neat training-ground routine from Huddersfield.

37 min “Based on what you’ve seen on James Garner so far, do you feel that he might stand a chance in Erik ten Hag’s New Manchester United?” says Hans Petter Hustveit. “ s far as I have seen he seems to be a popular player amongst the Forest fans, and a player who has consistently played well for the club this season. Though he’s more of an eight than the six most MUFC supporters would hope for.”

From what I’ve seen, which in truth isn’t that much, I would try to loan him to a lower mid-table Premier League club next season. A lot depends on who United sign – I suspect he’s already good enough to be a back-up/cup midfielder, but not yet a regular starter in the league.

34 min Thomas slips Worrall on the left, moves into the area and cracks a low cross that is pushed away at the near post by Brice Samba. He looks a big threat on the break, especially when he pulls out to the left.

32 min Thomas, the most confident attacking player on either side so far, nutmegs Zinckernagel in midfield but then overhits a reverse pass to Ward. Nice idea though.

30 min Now Zinckernagel has a shot blocked by Hogg.

29 min McKenna’s long-range shot is booted clear by Sarr.