{"id":542710,"date":"2020-01-31T19:26:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T00:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=542710"},"modified":"2020-01-31T19:26:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T00:26:55","slug":"chris-willock-joins-huddersfield-town-on-loan-from-benfica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/31\/chris-willock-joins-huddersfield-town-on-loan-from-benfica\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Willock Joins Huddersfield Town on Loan From Benfica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.us\/chris-willock\/leistungsdaten\/spieler\/314341\/plus\/0?saison=2015\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Willock<\/a> has joined <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/huddersfield-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huddersfield Town<\/a> on loan from Benfica. This deal will last until the end of the season. Willock is the second player to have <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/01\/31\/huddersfield-town-re-sign-jonas-lossl-on-loan\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">joined Town on loan this deadline day, following that of<\/a> goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/jonas-lossl\/profil\/spieler\/48870\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonas Lossl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Chris Willock Joins Huddersfield Town on Loan<\/h2>\n<h3>History Predominantly in England<\/h3>\n<p>Chris Willock has a lot of experience in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Premier League<\/a>. He started out his footballing career in the Premier League 2 with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/arsenal\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arsenal<\/a> U23. With his time at the Gunners not looking particularly promising, he left London, swapping the Emirates for Portuguese side Benfica\u2019s second team. He spent two seasons there before moving to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/west-brom\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Bromwich Albion<\/a> on loan in the summer of 2019. He left the former Premier League side today, with a quick turnaround taking him straight to Huddersfield Town. He featured heavily for West Brom\u2019s second team but never played for the Baggies\u2019 senior team. The 22-year-old is still young and may be able to find first-team game time with Huddersfield.<\/p>\n<h3>Quest for First Team Game Time<\/h3>\n<p>The Englishman has struggled to get any first-team game time. He has played just 25 minutes of it in his whole career, with this coming in the EFL Cup for Arsenal. A move to West Brom looked promising, however, he did not even play a minute for their senior team. The young winger will try again, this time with Huddersfield, and may finally succeed in his quest for first-team game time.<\/p>\n<p>He will be looking for senior team action, and his speed and good dribbling may help him get a look in at Huddersfield. This is Huddersfield\u2019s second loan signing on a busy deadline day for them, and these may help Town in their relegation fight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"76Lv7SvVQZJb1s9BKj1FUQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1203261914\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'76Lv7SvVQZJb1s9BKj1FUQ',sig:'_KxggPWolOn3PlD2HLTeh5so__Xg8PfnD6Fhz9FL178=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1203261914',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Willock has joined Huddersfield Town on loan from Benfica. This deal will last until the end of the season. Willock is the second player to have joined Town on loan this deadline day, following that of goalkeeper Jonas Lossl. Chris Willock Joins Huddersfield Town on Loan History Predominantly in England Chris Willock has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3312,"featured_media":542743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,1266,30],"tags":[32738,687,4109,308,1072,4132,40,136],"class_list":["post-542710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-huddersfield-town","category-news","tag-arsenal-fixtures","tag-benfica","tag-chris-willock","tag-efl-cup","tag-huddersfield","tag-loan-deals","tag-premier-league","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}