Twice in the last month the dog has run home from the park on its own, dodging traffic on a busy Luton road. My fault of course. I couldn’t hold on to a lead.
The same can also be said for the Hatters except tonight it was a 3 goal lead that evaporated in 15 second half minutes. It looked as though the Town were running on empty. A few questions tactically perhaps to answer.
Let’s accentuate the positive. First half Bournemouth had lot of chances. But didn’t take any. And Luton were totally clinical on the counter. Gorgeous chip from Clark to Chong’s unmarked head for the first. Beautiful build-up to unleash Alfie whose cross turned in perfectly by Ogbene. And then possibly the best of the lot as Ross and his broken nose stormed through to absolutely lash a rocket into the roof of the net.
3-0 half time and apparently BBC Three Counties were talking about resting players for the second half.
No time to list the Bournemouth second half surge in detail but two key moments do illustrate Luton were still making chances. First Chong was fractions offside tucking in after a bullet Carlton header. And another Carlton assist was scuppered by poor Ross scuffing over from barely a yard.
It is going to take a lot to pick the Town up ahead of the crunch clash with Forest at the Kenny on Saturday.
But somehow you know this club has got the spirit within to find it.
#COYH
Town: Kaminski; Kaboré, Doughty, Hashioka (sub Mpanzu 67), Mengi, Burke; Barkley (sub Berry 88), Clark; Chong (sub Woodrow 73), Ogbene (sub Townsend 88), Morris.
Benno