Hatters boss Rob Edwards felt both and the players might have got swept away with the emotion of their equaliser against Burnley last night following the Clarets scoring what turned out to be the winner just 65 seconds later.
With Luton trailing 1-0 to Lyle Foster’s goal just before the break, they spent virtually the entire second period camped in the Clarets half, creating a host of opportunities for the likes of Carlton Morris, Jacob Brown and Chiedozie Ogbene
It took them until six minutes of time to finally make one of them count, the leveller coming through substitute Elijah Adebayo’s opportunistic finish, the forward spinning to convert from close range after Reece Burke had knocked down Tahith Chong’s deep cross.
However, as Kenilworth Road erupted and an animated Edwards celebrated the goal wildly on the touchline, they were brought back down to earth with a nasty bump just over a minute later, Jacob Bruuun Larsen instantly curling home from 20 yards to make it 2-1.
Asked if there had been a loss of focus following the leveller, Edwards said: “Potentially, I’ve looked at it back and we haven’t touched the ball after the goal.
“I got swept away as well with emotion at the time.
“I really felt in that moment as we had momentum and we were on top, I felt like we could go on and win the game, I’m sure the players felt that and the supporters felt that as well.
“But they’ve gone back and across, we’ve tried to press, they’ve gone long, they picked it up, made a couple of passes and switched it.
“We probably sagged off a little bit too much thinking the cross was going to come in and then he’s checked inside, bent it in the top corner.
“Maybe if we stayed higher he’s coming inside to bodies, so there’s a few things that we can be better at there, without me being too technical and going into too much detail.
“Certainly it’s something that we can learn from, but it was pretty gutting that moment at that time.
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