This was more like the old Luton. A best home performance since Watford? A return to 3 at the back. Players with Championship experience. Whatever the reasons, some sort of spark appeared to have returned. And Town should have been at least one goal up at half time.
That said, it was another defeat. Ten games without a win in the Championship. A fourth home game without a goal, setting a new Luton Town 140 year club record.
Second half after Blades manager Wilder had changed his side to deal with the threat of the excellent Aasgaard, Luton faded. And there was zero impact from the bench which was a concern. Maybe it will be a different story when Burke, Chong, or Clark return.
But don’t forget we were promised an aggressive transfer window. Four bids apparently went in for a striker bang in form. But we didn’t in the end buy one. We went down the bargain bucket route and got a fella who hasn’t played for a while and is going to take time to get up to speed.
Time Luton don’t have.
Three Counties radio reckon Luton need six wins which would take us to 45 points. Probably not enough.
Wednesday night sees a 12 pointer as 24th Town take on 23rd Plymouth.
Let’s see which Luton turn up.
#COYH
Town: Kaminski, Bell, Jones, Naismith (sub Alli 90), McGuinness, Doughty, Nakamba (sub Baptiste 76), Walsh (sub Bowler 90), Aasgaard, Adebayo (sub Brown 69), Morris.