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Joe Hugill and Burton Albion secured a vital, uncommon win away to Stevenage yesterday that took them three factors above the relegation zone.
The Brewers have been completely dominated by their hosts however nonetheless discovered a strategy to come away with the large victory.
Burton had solely 24% of the ball and 7 photographs to the house facet’s 13.
The away facet took the lead in first half stoppage time however acquired an additional little bit of the luck when Stevenage have been diminished to 10 males simply after the hour mark.
They doubled their lead on 76 minutes via Tom Hamer earlier than the facet from The Lamex Stadium pulled again a comfort simply earlier than full time.
After an insipid efficiency final weekend, Hugill discovered himself on the bench for this encounter.
Nonetheless, he was introduced on at half time and performed the total second half.
Regardless of enjoying most of his match in opposition to ten males, the United loanee nonetheless struggled massively to have any affect within the sport.
Sofascore gave him a score of 6.2 in one among his poorer performances within the marketing campaign.
The 20 12 months outdated had zero photographs on or astray and he was unsuccessful in his two dribble makes an attempt.
Hugill hardly ever obtained concerned within the play as he solely had 21 touches of the ball and was solely able to making three profitable passes out of his eleven makes an attempt.
He, like his crew, struggled to maintain maintain of the ball, giving it away 12 occasions in 45 minutes of motion.
The teen was additionally irrelevant within the air as he extremely misplaced all 11 of his aerial duels regardless of his 1.88m peak.
Hugill was additionally solely in a position to win two out of his eight floor duels and full one profitable deal with.
Subsequent up for the teen and Burton is a titanic residence conflict versus Cheltenham, who’re two locations and 5 factors under the facet from the Pirelli Stadium. A win would go an extended strategy to securing League One soccer for the approaching season.
From Hugill’s perspective, after two completely lifeless performances on the bounce, he’ll take into account himself fortunate to have any involvement in any respect, as he nonetheless awaits his second objective for the membership, since scoring on his debut again in January.
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