Murray made his fourth senior appearance for Town in midweek
Huddersfield Town youngster Max Murray has reflected on the “whole new experience” of making his first senior start for the club.
The young defender was named in Town’s starting 11 for Tuesday’s EFL Trophy victory over Liverpool under-21s, with the 19-year-old playing the full 90 minutes of the 4-0 win.
Murray made his fourth senior appearance for Town in midweek, with the defender making his debut on the final day of last term against AFC Wimbledon, before also featuring as a substitute against Doncaster Rovers and Rochdale in this season’s EFL Trophy.
Reflecting on his first start, Murray told BBC Radio Leeds: “I felt it went really well. The players are confident in my ability, and I think I’m confident in my ability, so I’m able to express myself well on the pitch with first-teamers.
“Obviously they’re senior players so they’re going to talk me through the game, which they did, and it really helps.
“Being a young player, I haven’t played with them much, but with them talking to me, I know where to be, I know what positions to be in, I know when I can step in, drop in, just everything. It really helps when you’re playing with these kind of players, and it’s a whole new experience playing with new players.”
On coming up against Liverpool’s youngsters, Murray added: “They’re very technical players, and that’s what I want to play against, I want to play the best, and that’s only going to make me better.
“Playing teams like that, Liverpool under-21s, in the match the person I’m against, I’m going to have to be better than him, and that’s what I think I did today.
“We had a pre-season game with the under-21s against them at the start of the season, so I played against most of those players, and it’s good to play against them again, because some of them might have got the better of me in that game, but I know I got it back today.”
Murray is currently on a youth loan with National League North outfit Buxton, and the defender said: “I know the Buxton gaffer (Jordan Broadbent), he used to be my coach when I was younger at Bradford City. He’s a really good coach and he’s been wanting me since the start of the season, so to get in there in a men’s dressing room, men’s football, I’m really enjoying it.”
