Huddersfield boss Michael Duff was disappointed with the officiating against Wanderers – but insists that wasn’t why they lost the game.

Duff felt there were several instances of delaying the restart which went unpunished and even claimed that Szabi Schon should have been sent off.

However, the head coach admitted that a “lack of quality” proved costly as the Terriers saw their 16-game unbeaten run in League One come to an end.

“We just couldn't build any momentum in the game, I don't think the referee helped that,” he said after the final whistle.

“Whether it's right or wrong, it's a mandatory yellow card now if you stop a restart and two or three times it happened in the first half.

“I've had a red card this year for stopping a ball. The left-back has buried Ollie Turton in the first half, I think he should be sent off.

“He's not the reason why we lost the game, but he didn't help in terms of trying to build a bit of momentum.

“He puts five minutes up at the end. He could have put 25 minutes up and we wouldn't have scored, I don't think, but he puts five minutes up. There's two yellow cards and he blows up after four minutes and 58 seconds.

“It just felt a bit flat. That was the frustration at half-time when I said to them - which is easy for me because I'm on the sideline - don't sleepwalk into a 1-0 because it had that sort of feel about it. Ultimately, we didn't make the adjustments that we asked them to do.”

Duff hopes that his squad can use the sting of defeat as motivation to bounce back as they prepare to take on leaders Birmingham.

“(Bolton) are on a difficult run and you can see what it meant to them,” he added. “That's why I said sometimes it's not a bad thing to get beat.

“No one wants to get beat, particularly me. My job's on the line. But sometimes that feeling, that horrible gut feeling when you walk in the dressing room, you hear them celebrating.

“You've got to get back to work. You need seven or eight players to win a game. We definitely didn't have that today.”