HUDDERSFIELD Town head coach Martin Drury revealed he did not enjoy much of his side's 4-1 victory over Peterborough United - despite the Terriers moving up to second in the League One table after securing their third win in their past four matches.
Town, fresh from their scintillating weekend success at Plymouth Argyle, were afforded the perfect start, thanks to Ilias Bronkhorst's maiden strike for the club after just three minutes.
Peterborough found their way back into the game after that initial blow.
Despite Joe Taylor giving the hosts a two-goal cushion midway through the second half, Harry Leonard soon pulled one back for Posh.
Ex-Peterborough player Taylor soon restored Town's two-goal advantage with his second goal inside four minutes—taking his season's haul to eight—as the Terriers belatedly found their ruthless side.
Gloss arrived late on when Bali Mumba added a fourth with his first ever goal at the Accu Stadium.
Asked about his thoughts against his side's performance, Drury, whose side welcome Wigan Athletic on Saturday lunch-time, said: "Chaotic. It was basketball at times.
"I didn't enjoy it. My heart rate didn't enjoy it. I felt first half we looked a little bit tired mentally. I thought some of our decision making was not quite as it normally is.
"And we lacked a little bit of quality in moments where we're normally much better. So we didn't hurt the opponent in the first half as much as we'd have liked to. We spoke about that half time.
"In the second half, I thought the players made a real positive response to that. And I don't think it was a perfect performance, far from it. I don't think it was clean at all.
"We were nowhere near our best. But I thought we had enough moments of quality in the second half to win us the game. And that's credit to the players and nobody else.
"I would probably say probably a gauge of where we're at is the players are quite flat in the changing room and a little bit down. In terms of the performance when I went on the pitch and spoke to them after the game.
"And they were saying 'we weren't there tonight'.
"We weren't very good tonight. So if they can feel like that and we can feel like that and we can win 4-1, then that's a healthy sign.
"I expected a bit more from this first half, if I'm honest. But at the same time, I accept that in the second half, we had a response.
"We were better in the second half than we were in the first half. And the quality of the goals that we scored is credit to them. Because physically and mentally, if they are a little bit tired, they still needed that composure in those moments.
"And I thought the goals were very, very well taken."
Drury confirmed that striker Bojan Radulovic missed the game as a precaution due to a slight hamstring issue.
He continued: "Bojan has got a little bit of fatigue in his hamstring. And it was more precautionary tonight than anything else. It's frustrating because I wanted to include him.
"But if you look at his history, the injuries that he's sustained have generally been from a Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday. So we have to be careful. It's too important to us to risk.
"As much as I want to push players, I've got to go off the advice from specialists and professionals around me.
"So he was rested tonight for that reason. Hopefully over the next few days, he recovers well and it settles down and we'll have a look at him towards the weekend.
"I'm hopeful he'll be available for the weekend, but I'll be governed by other people."