Swansea produced a brilliant defensive performance to claim a point at Huddersfield despite playing 79 minutes of the 0-0 draw with 10 men
The visitors' gameplan was undone after just 11 minutes when Jordan Ayew was shown a straight red card by Michael Oliver for a high boot in a challenge with Jonathan Hogg
Yet for all their subsequent possession - and Huddersfield enjoyed 81 per cent of the ball - Swansea keeper Lukasz Fabianski was forced into just one save of note, tipping Steve Mounie's fierce volley onto the bar midway through the second half
Tom Ince then hit the post in injury time with a fine downward header, but the hosts could find no way through as Swansea held on to leave both sides on 31 points in their fight against relegation
The game swung on Ayew's red card as he slid in to retrieve the ball in a robust 50-50 challenge with Hogg, although replays showed the Huddersfield captain was perhaps fortunate to avoid punishment as he appeared to stamp on the Swansea forward's leg
And it might have been worse for the visitors had Alfie Mawson made contact with Alex Pritchard with a reckless sliding lunge on 18 minutes
 That Pritchard was able to hop out of the way meant the Swansea defender was only shown a yellow
But the red card established the pattern of the game, with Huddersfield moving the ball wide and throwing in cross after cross, largely without reward as the Swansea back three of Mawson, Federico Fernandez and Mike van der Hoorn continued to head and hack clear
Only once did Town really threaten in the opening 45 minutes - Mounie's flicked header from Aaron Mooy's cross on 41 minutes looping just over the bar with Fabianski scrambling
They improved after the break - a superb cross from Florent Hadergjonaj fell to Scott Malone at the far post but he could not sort his feet out to make contact and ended up in the back of the net instead of the ball
Mounie then fired into the side netting on the hour before Fabianski brilliantly tipped the striker's fierce volley onto the bar and behind as Huddersfield continued to press
Hadergjonaj's shot from 25 yards flew inches wide and when Ince's header bounced up and onto the post, Huddersfield knew that despite 28 shots to Swansea's zero, this was not to be their day
 "Sometimes in football you need luck, but the performance was very good
 We didn't have luck today, but we will take the clean sheet
 It's been a long time since we had a clean sheet
 But this could be a crucial point at the end of the season
"Swansea put all the bodies behind the ball and were lucky
 They worked hard but we have to be honest, they were lucky, we were unlucky
 We can live with this performance, you don't always you get what you deserve
" "This is one of our best results because of the circumstances of the game and the importance of the game
 My players were brave
 They fought a lot, the commitment was very strong
 We played with 10 players for most of the game
"When we lost one player, we knew we missed the bridge to go to attack, so we had to protect the point
 You see how many crosses and corners they had, but my players were unbelievable
 They were brave and we achieved an epic point this afternoon
"It was a heroic performance by all of Swansea's defenders, but Fernandez was the pick of them all, repelling everything thrown his way as Huddersfield laid siege to the Swansea penalty area
 The Argentinian made a game-high 15 clearances for his side as Carlos Carvalhal's side returned to Wales with a valuable point
Huddersfield's bid to avoid the drop continues with another clash with fellow strugglers as Crystal Palace visit the John Smith's Stadium next Saturday
Swansea have an FA Cup quarter-final date with Tottenham next Saturday before travelling to Manchester United in the Premier League at the end of the month
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