Nahki Wells bagged a dramatic late equaliser to rescue a point for Huddersfield Town against Milton Keynes Dons yesterday.

Wells struck four minutes from time in the Sky Bet Championship game at stadium:mk, running on to a long ball from Tommy Smith, which he fired past Cody Cropper, the Dons goalkeeper.

The Bermuda striker’s goal was his fourteenth of the season, matching his tally from the whole of last season, and secured a vital point for David Wagner’s men.

Huddersfield, who had half-time substitute Philip Billing harshly sent off four minutes into the second half, trailed 1-0 after Alex Revell headed home Jonny Williams’s right-wing cross in the 28th minute.

Milton Keynes created much the better of the chances and Josh Murphy went close on a couple of occasions with free kicks that sailed just wide.

Huddersfield, who struggled in the first half, improved after the break and Wells’s 86th minute strike extended his side’s unbeaten run to three games.

The result leaves Huddersfield in sixteenth, some 13 points clear of the relegation zone, while Milton Keynes are 21st one place above the bottom three. Although they have a six-point cushion on Rotherham United, the team directly below them.

“It [the draw] feels positive,” Wagner, the Huddersfield head coach, said. “The first half was one of the worst we have played together. We didn’t do anything we had spoken about before. We missed our fighting attitude completely.

“The reaction was great, especially with us going down to ten men so quickly after half-time.

“We stayed in the game and sometimes it isn’t negative when you get a red card because everyone comes closer together. It was a foul of course and a yellow card, but not a red. We will appeal and see what happens.”

Before the game, Wells had praised Wagner for turning his season around.

The striker’s career was stuttering under Chris Powell, Wagner’s predecessor — in one game, out the next — but Wells has rediscovered his scoring touch, netting four times in the last five games, adding to the late winner he scored at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers last weekend.

The 25-year-old, the club’s top scorer, said his confidence is sky high because of the faith shown in him by Wagner.

“I’m scoring regularly, probably for the first time in my Huddersfield career, and that’s down to the manager,” Wells told the Huddersfield Examiner yesterday.

“Against Wolves I wasn’t having my best game, to be honest, and he could have taken me off.

“But he stuck with me and fortunately I was able to get the goal. My confidence is high and that’s down to the new manager.”

Wells has now scored 35 career goals for Huddersfield to put him among the club’s all-time top 50 scorers.

Statistics have shown the club-record £1.3 million signing from Bradford City in January 2014 is among the ten most lethal strikers in the Championship.

Wells had notched one league goal every 195 minutes he has played this season going into yesterday’s game, the tenth best in the Championship for a player who has played at least 900 minutes this campaign.

Top of the pile is Sheffield Wednesday striker Gary Hooper who has scored a goal for every 111 minutes he has played. Charlie Austin of Queens Park Rangers was the next best with a goal every 114 minutes prior to his January transfer to Southampton in the Barclays Premier League.

Wells said he was not the only Huddersfield player to benefit from Wagner’s management style and approach to the game.

“It’s all the front four,” he said. “We are all relishing it. We were all hit and miss before the new manager came in and now we’re all flying.

“Credit to the gaffer and credit to us for buying into what he wants. He deserves a lot of credit for believing in us and tells us ‘you make mistakes, you keep going’.

“We are not afraid to try stuff, and it’s working.”

• Rai Simons scored for the Chesterfield reserves in a 7-0 win at home to Gateshead yesterday. Simons, who had hit the woodwork early in the first half, scored his team’s fourth goal two minutes into the second half.