| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Sunday Aftermath 15:35 - Mar 10 with 14427 views | NotLoyal |
The hatters of Luton v the swans of Swansea, a game of football, eleven v eleven, game of two halves, different colour jerseys, one aim, victory.
Saturday March 13th 2021
The Championship
Kenilworth Road, Luton
Kick Off 12.15pm
Match Officials
DARREN BOND
Mark Russell and Robert Hyde
Fourth Official : Andy ‘Cooper’s mate’ Woolmer
Television and Wireless
SKY Sports LIVE
Swans TV
Flags, flags and more flags, it’s flag day
Luton manager Nathan Jones has been a bit of a problem for the swans over recent fixtures, he seems to save his best for this fixture. The swans won at the Liberty but it wasn’t pretty, in fact it wasn’t even ugly, it was worse than that. Coupled with the swans recent form, albeit seven points from nine, it’s still a worry if an out of form Swansea can get anything from this game. A change of form is needed. Quickly.
Nathan Jones has never made it easy for the swans - ever
Last time out
Luton lost at Norwich City 3-0, Swansea City drew at Blackburn Rovers.
Previously
Since 2004 the swans have won five out of the last fixtures in all competitions. Last season Swansea won 1-0 at Kenilworth Road, and Luton won 1-0 at the Liberty.
Swansea City v Luton Town
Games won: 20
Games drawn: 11
Games lost: 22
Luton Facts
The club was founded in 1885 and became the first professional team in southern England in 1891. Back then it was over a hundred years ago. The side was promoted to the top-flight in 1981—82 and won the 1987—88 League Cup Final with a 3—2 victory over Arsenal. The club stayed in the top division until 1992. Then they left. They have never played in the premier league.
Charles Arthur Salvador (formerly Charles Ali Ahmed; Bronson, born Michael Gordon Peterson
The man known as Charlie Bronson, Britain’s longest serving inmate ( 47 years currently )is from Luton, he is quite old now, 69 next birthday, but would still give a few millennials a right good kicking as long as there wasn’t more than five of them at a time. Bronson wrote the foreword to Tommy Robinson’s book about his hooligan endeavours. A bit like Cardiff City it should have been a three page pamphlet, the front and back Included. The middle page for a picture of Walter Mitty.
Charles Bronson amongst other names is as hard as a hard thing from hardshire
Luton’s Star Man
A Manchester United academy graduate, the 26-year-old brings a huge amount of Championship experience to Kenilworth Road, having spent a majority of his career in the second tier. After he made two appearances in the League Cup, Tunnicliffe left Old Trafford in 2014, having spent time on loan at Peterborough United, Barnsley and Ipswich Town, joining Fulham for an undisclosed fee in 2014. He spent three-and-a-half years there, again, heading out on loan, this time to Blackburn Rovers and Wigan Athletic. He joined Millwall in 2017, spending two-years there, before joining the Hatters in the summer. Tunnicliffe made 40 appearances during his first season at Kenilworth Road, scoring his one and only goal in the 1-0 away victory against Middlesborough. At nine years old, Ryan was playing for Manchester United’s youth teams, and his dad managed to get odds on 100-1 on his son featuring for the first team, which earned him £10,000 in 2012.
Running to the cliff, that’s Ryan
 Luton Town v Swansea City : Pre Match and Teams 13th Mar 2021 11:20It’s coming round every three to four days and that’s another fixture in the EFL Championship. The early kick off is Luton Town v Swansea City ( LIVE on SKY Sports kick off 12.15pm) The hatters are looking secure points to stave off a very unlikely relegation, whilst the swans, in the box seats for the automatics to the premier league are scrapping for points to aid their cause.  0
Luton Town: Simon Sluga, Dan Potts, Ryan Tunnicliffe, Matty Pearson (captain), Harry Cornick, Pelly Mpanzu, Jordan Clark, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Kai Naismith, James Bree, Elijah Adebayo.
Substitutes: James Shea, Martin Cranie, Luke Berry, Glen Rea, James Collins, Kazenga Lualua, Sam Nombe, Joe Morrell, Tom Ince.
Swansea City: Freddie Woodman; Kyle Naughton, Ryan Bennett, Joel Latibeaudiere; Connor Roberts, Korey Smith, Matt Grimes (captain), Conor Hourihane, Ryan Manning; Yan Dhanda; Andre Ayew.
Substitutes: Ben Hamer, Jay Fulton, Jamal Lowe, Wayne Routledge, Morgan Whittaker, Jake Bidwell, Kieron Freeman, Brandon Cooper, Ben Cabango.
A win !
Nothing to follow
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 16:50 - Mar 13 with 1139 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 16:32 - Mar 13 by Flashberryjack |
I have a moan if we play terrible and win, I'm always gutted when we lose (not quite so if we play well).
I'm absolutely over the moon when we win and play well (unfortunately that doesn't happen very often).
But, I was a ST holder in our vetch days, a ST holder since we moved to the Liberty, and I've already bought my ST for next season, which kind of gives me the right to have a few moans along the way. |
Everyone has the right to moan, you don’t need a season ticket to be able to do so. Free speech and all that.
It’s just a case of why you would want to when we are doing so well. People should fully understand the squad restraints we have, so expecting us to play free flowing tiki taka isn’t the most realistic of demands.
Moaning at our style of play isn’t going to magic a wonder striker from our youth system that allows us to retain attacking possession, or make Naughton magically grow 6 inches so when we do shoehorn him into the back 3 we aren’t getting beaten in the air.
We are making do with what we have and working with it. It’s going pretty well. People should recognise that and give praise where it’s due. We are in the automatic places for Gods sake.
(Edit - a 94th minute Watford winner says we are 3rd, joint with second with a game in hand... but you get my drift). [Post edited 13 Mar 2021 16:56]
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 16:56 - Mar 13 with 1129 views | thornabyswan |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 16:32 - Mar 13 by Flashberryjack |
I have a moan if we play terrible and win, I'm always gutted when we lose (not quite so if we play well).
I'm absolutely over the moon when we win and play well (unfortunately that doesn't happen very often).
But, I was a ST holder in our vetch days, a ST holder since we moved to the Liberty, and I've already bought my ST for next season, which kind of gives me the right to have a few moans along the way. |
We all have a moan mate the bad days make you appreciate the good ones a bit more that's how I see it..
We defended well today a tough place to go they got a pretty good home record and a few good players.
Grimes was outstanding again all 3 centre halves did very well.
Woodman improved 2nd half and the midfield got better when Fulton came on.
A decent away performance Watford just scored which has spoilt it slightly. |  |
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 17:03 - Mar 13 with 1110 views | KeithHaynes |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 16:56 - Mar 13 by thornabyswan |
We all have a moan mate the bad days make you appreciate the good ones a bit more that's how I see it..
We defended well today a tough place to go they got a pretty good home record and a few good players.
Grimes was outstanding again all 3 centre halves did very well.
Woodman improved 2nd half and the midfield got better when Fulton came on.
A decent away performance Watford just scored which has spoilt it slightly. |
Only for Cardiff fans, I’ll take that 😉 |  |
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 17:31 - Mar 13 with 1055 views | AndyCole |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 15:08 - Mar 13 by Chief |
And as i predicted and even got criticised for....
People are once again looking for things to be depressed and critical about.
- We're boring.
- We're lucky.
- We shout at refs.
- Our clean sheet keeper is a joke.
- They could have had penalties.
Any others? |
Those criticisms are from the weak, who now should have no credible voice.
It beggars belief why some can only moan. Even when we win, time and again.
If they behave like that in real life, they can't possibly have successful relationships or jobs, surely ? Abhorrent.
btw - add: "We should of":- (for those that still cant see the irony, "Should Of" is a direct quote of one of our very twpest. Even educated 6 year olds don't ever say Should Of)
- rotated Bidwell for Manning (when Bidwell was in our top3 performers)
- used Subs for subs sake, rotate to rotate innit
- signed Bony
- played 4 at the back today
- not played one of our best players, CH !!
- dropped Grimes, always
- dropped Lowe when he was player of the month | |
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 17:54 - Mar 13 with 1019 views | Flashberryjack |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 16:50 - Mar 13 by Dr_Parnassus |
Everyone has the right to moan, you don’t need a season ticket to be able to do so. Free speech and all that.
It’s just a case of why you would want to when we are doing so well. People should fully understand the squad restraints we have, so expecting us to play free flowing tiki taka isn’t the most realistic of demands.
Moaning at our style of play isn’t going to magic a wonder striker from our youth system that allows us to retain attacking possession, or make Naughton magically grow 6 inches so when we do shoehorn him into the back 3 we aren’t getting beaten in the air.
We are making do with what we have and working with it. It’s going pretty well. People should recognise that and give praise where it’s due. We are in the automatic places for Gods sake.
(Edit - a 94th minute Watford winner says we are 3rd, joint with second with a game in hand... but you get my drift). [Post edited 13 Mar 2021 16:56]
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Yes we gained another 3 points, fantastic, but do you think we played well ? |  |
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 18:22 - Mar 13 with 986 views | shingle |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 16:56 - Mar 13 by thornabyswan |
We all have a moan mate the bad days make you appreciate the good ones a bit more that's how I see it..
We defended well today a tough place to go they got a pretty good home record and a few good players.
Grimes was outstanding again all 3 centre halves did very well.
Woodman improved 2nd half and the midfield got better when Fulton came on.
A decent away performance Watford just scored which has spoilt it slightly. |
Spoilt it more than slightly for me, was looking forward to seeing us sitting nicely in the automatic promotion place than having to watch that free kick go in with the last kick of the game ffs. | | | |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 18:25 - Mar 13 with 981 views | shingle |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 17:54 - Mar 13 by Flashberryjack |
Yes we gained another 3 points, fantastic, but do you think we played well ? |
Played ok, but our luck remains intact, a decent Luton striker may very well have has a field day with all the chances they had, but thats there problem. | | | |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 18:48 - Mar 13 with 956 views | krunchykarrot |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 15:55 - Mar 13 by pencoedjack |
Top post.
I honestly believe some of our fans have no idea about football |
Taken you a while! |  | | |
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 18:54 - Mar 13 with 944 views | max936 |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 16:23 - Mar 13 by swancity |
Yes he changed Dhanda and Hourihane for Fulton and Lowe at just the right time and from that point we rarely looked like conceding while we got forward a bit more. That was a very good win against dangerous opponents to be fair. ðŸ‘
Credit again to SC. Although his choice of coffee for breakfast and not tea this morning was disgraceful and showed his inexperience. 😂 |
Very good substitutions they were, it has to be said, took the pressure off, not an easy watch, but its another 3pts towards our goal. |  | | |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 18:55 - Mar 13 with 941 views | LittleEnglandJack |
An improvement performance wise on Blackburn, but then that wasn't hard. Too negative, invited pressure and were lucky they didn't score. We would have put them away 2-0 quite comfortably earlier in the season, I reckon.
Still, another 3 points, and a good 3 points considering their impressive record at Kenilworth Road and recently. Onwards to Bournemouth, which will be an even tougher test. | | | |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 19:12 - Mar 13 with 910 views | Badlands |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 17:31 - Mar 13 by AndyCole |
Those criticisms are from the weak, who now should have no credible voice.
It beggars belief why some can only moan. Even when we win, time and again.
If they behave like that in real life, they can't possibly have successful relationships or jobs, surely ? Abhorrent.
btw - add: "We should of":- (for those that still cant see the irony, "Should Of" is a direct quote of one of our very twpest. Even educated 6 year olds don't ever say Should Of)
- rotated Bidwell for Manning (when Bidwell was in our top3 performers)
- used Subs for subs sake, rotate to rotate innit
- signed Bony
- played 4 at the back today
- not played one of our best players, CH !!
- dropped Grimes, always
- dropped Lowe when he was player of the month |
From the weak.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
From people who know about football. |  |
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 19:32 - Mar 13 with 883 views | DJack |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 16:32 - Mar 13 by Flashberryjack |
I have a moan if we play terrible and win, I'm always gutted when we lose (not quite so if we play well).
I'm absolutely over the moon when we win and play well (unfortunately that doesn't happen very often).
But, I was a ST holder in our vetch days, a ST holder since we moved to the Liberty, and I've already bought my ST for next season, which kind of gives me the right to have a few moans along the way. |
Well said Flash. The truth of the matter is that even posters with "opposing views" are generally not that far apart in view. It's just the expression of the emotive side attached to the events that have passed is where the difference is. |  |
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 20:45 - Mar 13 with 790 views | Treforys_Jack |
Football is an entertainment business, lest we forget. [Post edited 13 Mar 2021 20:53]
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 20:49 - Mar 13 with 769 views | onehunglow |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 20:45 - Mar 13 by Treforys_Jack |
Football is an entertainment business, lest we forget. [Post edited 13 Mar 2021 20:53]
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Fair play Tref | |
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 21:31 - Mar 13 with 736 views | NotLoyal |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 18:55 - Mar 13 by LittleEnglandJack |
An improvement performance wise on Blackburn, but then that wasn't hard. Too negative, invited pressure and were lucky they didn't score. We would have put them away 2-0 quite comfortably earlier in the season, I reckon.
Still, another 3 points, and a good 3 points considering their impressive record at Kenilworth Road and recently. Onwards to Bournemouth, which will be an even tougher test. |
Not so sure, we had the hardest away game today, Bournemouth won't be as disciplined. | |
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 22:56 - Mar 13 with 668 views | Luther27 |
Organisation was superb...performance was shte....but the result was great.
I’ll take the points....and when we’re two games short of winning the Premiership I’ll think about our performance  | | | |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 23:25 - Mar 13 with 655 views | Chief |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 20:45 - Mar 13 by Treforys_Jack |
Football is an entertainment business, lest we forget. [Post edited 13 Mar 2021 20:53]
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Not really though is it? If it was we'd all support Man City and watch them instead of the Swans. Or we'd go and do something else if the particular swans game you've got on or at is too boring half way through, like changing the channel if the programme you're watching is boring.
Entertainment is an added bonus to the emotional connection. |  |
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 00:30 - Mar 14 with 623 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 17:54 - Mar 13 by Flashberryjack |
Yes we gained another 3 points, fantastic, but do you think we played well ? |
In what sense? Did we play tiki taka football? No.
Did we set out to play in a way to defend our lead resolutely away from home at a team who had only lost there 4 times this season? Absolutely.
Some people have a very narrow view of what constitutes “playing well”. We were a defensive unit today and played that part perfectly. | |
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 00:34 - Mar 14 with 619 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 23:25 - Mar 13 by Chief |
Not really though is it? If it was we'd all support Man City and watch them instead of the Swans. Or we'd go and do something else if the particular swans game you've got on or at is too boring half way through, like changing the channel if the programme you're watching is boring.
Entertainment is an added bonus to the emotional connection. |
This is the most enjoyable season I can remember, certainly in the last half decade.
I don’t have to see us zip the ball into triangles to enjoy watching us. I love watching us win and would take a defensive 1-0 display over any other result traditionally “playing well”. I can’t remember a Swans side that played such stingy defensive football. Must be a nightmare to play against.
May not be everyone’s cup of tea, but tough I guess. Continually moaning about it isn’t going to change it, enjoy the success. It doesn’t tend to stay around for long. | |
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 02:22 - Mar 14 with 599 views | DJack |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 23:25 - Mar 13 by Chief |
Not really though is it? If it was we'd all support Man City and watch them instead of the Swans. Or we'd go and do something else if the particular swans game you've got on or at is too boring half way through, like changing the channel if the programme you're watching is boring.
Entertainment is an added bonus to the emotional connection. |
I quite like and sometimes agree with Treforys but...You've proved an earlier point from myself. Those of us who disagree are not really far apart in our thinking. Today we have come together in disagreement yet we both had SIMILAR viewpoints. Our vested interest are the same yet our conclusions are disparate. Why? Our, expressive, emotional connections are different so we couch our language in different moulds and here there is friction. That in itself is OK but there are those that wish to utilise that friction to create division and elevate themselves as the arbiters of right/wrong and shape the narrative as a function of their worldview/aggrandising.
Too many on this board laud the excising of those on the other board as getting rid of the agenda boys...yet they promote an agenda of their own. Thank *sex*(yes, you got me) for the likes of Fireboy, Gwyn, Major, JB and many others for being more aligned to "my" side but also thank Flash, Cat, Belfie even AfD (plus others) for thinking in their own way... I may disagree vehemently with them but they argue from a perspective that is honest to them and not a point scoring exercise. (well, not entirely. We are but human afterall) | |
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 02:26 - Mar 14 with 598 views | angryjack |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 00:34 - Mar 14 by Dr_Parnassus |
This is the most enjoyable season I can remember, certainly in the last half decade.
I don’t have to see us zip the ball into triangles to enjoy watching us. I love watching us win and would take a defensive 1-0 display over any other result traditionally “playing well”. I can’t remember a Swans side that played such stingy defensive football. Must be a nightmare to play against.
May not be everyone’s cup of tea, but tough I guess. Continually moaning about it isn’t going to change it, enjoy the success. It doesn’t tend to stay around for long. |
I really don't think we were good defensively but very lucky ,their centre forward got on the end of quite a few good crosses but failed to score,another day he could have had a couple bad finishing rather than good defending,we lived dangerously for long periods.. | | | |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 03:24 - Mar 14 with 590 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 02:26 - Mar 14 by angryjack |
I really don't think we were good defensively but very lucky ,their centre forward got on the end of quite a few good crosses but failed to score,another day he could have had a couple bad finishing rather than good defending,we lived dangerously for long periods.. |
You aren't lucky to get 20 clean sheets in March.
They failed to score because we denied them good chances. Getting on the end of crosses and getting on the end of them in good dangerous positions are two very different animals. | |
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 04:06 - Mar 14 with 588 views | angryjack |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 03:24 - Mar 14 by Dr_Parnassus |
You aren't lucky to get 20 clean sheets in March.
They failed to score because we denied them good chances. Getting on the end of crosses and getting on the end of them in good dangerous positions are two very different animals. |
They got on the end of couple good crosses yesterday where adebayo think his name was,just couldn't finish,another when one their players got inbetween our centre halves and headed wide in 6 yard box when easier to score,dont think that was very good defending,and a dangerous position, as you say a different animal can name a few moreclear chances they had as well ,dangerous chances,just bad finishing,like I said rode our luck yesterday on another day could been a couple.and rode our luck last few games also.if you don't think that you really are one eyed jack [Post edited 14 Mar 2021 4:14]
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 05:07 - Mar 14 with 582 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 04:06 - Mar 14 by angryjack |
They got on the end of couple good crosses yesterday where adebayo think his name was,just couldn't finish,another when one their players got inbetween our centre halves and headed wide in 6 yard box when easier to score,dont think that was very good defending,and a dangerous position, as you say a different animal can name a few moreclear chances they had as well ,dangerous chances,just bad finishing,like I said rode our luck yesterday on another day could been a couple.and rode our luck last few games also.if you don't think that you really are one eyed jack [Post edited 14 Mar 2021 4:14]
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I don't remember any good chances. The best chance they had was when Woodman kicked it straight to them. Apart from that they were just hoofs into the box where we forced them into positions that aren't easy to score from.
I can't remember a single time I thought ''wow that was a bad finish''. Tough chances that they couldn't put away. Every single chance the Luton striker would have been odds against scoring. We forced that, it wasn't luck.
Compare that to Hourihanes goal as he was lining up, he would be heavy odds on favourite to score.
That's just realism and an understanding of what it is we are doing with our defensive unit. | |
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| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 05:21 - Mar 14 with 580 views | angryjack |
| Luton Town v Swansea City : Matchday Thread Saturday TEAMS on 05:07 - Mar 14 by Dr_Parnassus |
I don't remember any good chances. The best chance they had was when Woodman kicked it straight to them. Apart from that they were just hoofs into the box where we forced them into positions that aren't easy to score from.
I can't remember a single time I thought ''wow that was a bad finish''. Tough chances that they couldn't put away. Every single chance the Luton striker would have been odds against scoring. We forced that, it wasn't luck.
Compare that to Hourihanes goal as he was lining up, he would be heavy odds on favourite to score.
That's just realism and an understanding of what it is we are doing with our defensive unit. |
Clear chance second half man left on his own in six yard box cross whipped in free header glanced it wide with woodman stuck on his line.the other forward free header again second half didn't connect properly on edge six yard box again didn't get enough power straight into woodman arms..was you watching game just watch second half over again and there was at least 3 good chances in there | | | |
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