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Nathan Jones gives his opinion on why Luton threw away a home win against Swansea City 11:00 - Sep 19 with 2795 views

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Nathan Jones gives his opinion on why Luton threw away a home win against Swansea City 19th Sep 2021 11:00
It was a bizarre game for sure, not one for the faint hearted, and I can vouch for that. Luton Town manager Nathan Jones looked slightly shocked as well as he responded to questions as to why his side threw away a three goal lead yesterday.

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Nathan Jones gives his opinion on why Luton threw away a home win against Swanse on 22:50 - Sep 21 with 296 views

Rock

Nathan Jones gives his opinion on why Luton threw away a home win against Swanse on 14:50 - Sep 19 by Dr_Parnassus

Yep. We were clearly more direct:-

Long balls:-

vs Preston:- 46
vs Hull:- 29
vs Millwall:- 49
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vs Luton:- 65

I would bet anything the majority of which came in the second half. If anyone has the details feel free to put forward.

The other game this season we clearly went direct in, is our only league win of the season.

vs Bristol City:- 66

Coincidence eh?

[Post edited 19 Sep 2021 14:53]

Lol. Bueno. Massive fail yet again chap.

Long ball stats, without context, are not indicators of playing more directly. A long ball could be a diagonal to switch the play, a ball played from one wide centre-back to another, from one wing-back to another, from an attacker to a defender, etc. Those are far from direct, quite the opposite in fact.

They are not standalone figures that signify directness in attack. But just for proper context

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Long balls -

Blackburn - 45/72 – (63%)
Reading - 32/56 – (57%)
Sheffield - 25/52 – (48%)
Stoke - 28/52 – (54%)
Bristol - 30/66 – (45%)
Plymouth - 18/31 – (58%)
Preston - 24/56 – (43%)
Hull - 13/29 – (45%)
Millwall - 22/49 – (45%)
Luton - 30/65 – (46%)

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Luton match -

Long balls
1st half - 13/31 – (42%)
2nd half - 17/34 – (50%)

Possession
1st half - 70%
2nd half - 76%

Passes
1st half - 201/251 – (80%)
2nd half - 226/274 – (82%)

Clearances
1st half - 3
2nd half - 4

Overall
1st half - 0 goals, 2 shots, 0 on target
2nd half - 3 goals, 13 shots, 3 on target, 1 hit woodwork, 4 big chances missed
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Massive fail, coincidentally more “skewed narratives” and stats, eh? What was that about “mythbusting” again?

Nathan Jones gives his opinion on why Luton threw away a home win against Swanse on 00:29 - Sep 22 with 273 views

Rock

Nathan Jones gives his opinion on why Luton threw away a home win against Swanse on 09:18 - Sep 20 by Dr_Parnassus

Spot on and anyone who says that wasn’t at play is either trying to kid themselves or hasn’t been watching the game too long. It’s not a new thing.

But there were pro active reasons that contributed to the draw too. The subs as I said at the time were the right ones as was the fact we went more direct.

We seem to be getting our best results when we ditch the possession at all costs mould and actually look to attack.

[Post edited 20 Sep 2021 9:51]

Hmm...

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