Kenilworth Road witnessed, this afternoon, a hard-fought contest between two sides that are desperate to avoid relegation, come May, to the third tier of English football, League One.
After a scintillating performance, in midweek, against Brentford, the Hatters support were hoping for more of the same, unfortunately, that wasn’t to be the case.
The Hatters lacked that cutting edge that put Bretford to the sword and struggled to make an impact against a resolute Stoke side that had kept clean sheets in their two previous games.
Indeed, it was Stoke that took the lead, in the ninth minute, on a rare forage forward when Sam Vokes netted. From that moment on Luton were up against it.
But just as it looked as if was to be Stoke City that took the three points on offer, the Hatters were thrown a lifeline when Callum McManaman was fouled in the box by James Chester.
James Collins, given the captains armband ahead of the game, strode forward and beat the former England keeper, James Butland, comprehensively, sending the Hatters support wild.
A draw was perhaps a fair result but I wonder which of the two sides will get the most pleasure from this result?
Kenilworth Road
Championship
29/02/2020 4:00 pm
Attendance: 10070
Referee: Andy Woolmer
| Luton Town | Stoke City | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collins 90+1 (pen) | Vokes (9) | ||||||
| Sluga | Buttland | ||||||
| Cranie | Smith | ||||||
| Pearson | Batthe | ||||||
| Carter-Vickers | Chester | ||||||
| Potts | 73 | Martins Indi | |||||
| Rea | 58 | Allen | |||||
| Mpanzu | Cousins | ||||||
| Tunnicliffe | Ince | 85 | |||||
| Brown | 66 | Powell | 75 | ||||
| Cornick | Clucas | ||||||
| Collins | Vokes | 72 | |||||
Substitutes |
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| Stech | Lindsay | ||||||
| McManaman | 73 | Davies | |||||
| Hylton | Gregory | 72 | |||||
| Shinnie | Oakley-Boothe | ||||||
| Moncur | 58 | Campbell | |||||
| Bolton | 66 | Collins | 85 | ||||
| Brie | Thomson | 75 | |||||
Game Statistics |
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| 9 | Goal attempts | 9 |
| 3 | On Target | 4 |
| 4 | Corners | 6 |
| 11 | Fouls | 9 |
| 1 | Yellow Cards | 1 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 64 | % | 36 |
Hi all, yet another jeckel performance we were lucky to get a draw it could have been 4-1. And apart from Barnsley everyone else won. So now 10 games an probably 16 points needed. Sorry ain’t gonna make it div 1 here we come. Something has to change
Dull game, but stoke did what stoke do, 11 behind the the ball for large periods…realistically had we drawn with brentford & beat stoke we would have taken it…next week is massive now…think we all no div 1 is our destiny, but we keep faith 4 a little longer..think moncur should have started as brown clearly wasnt 100%…also its time to gamble on hylts…nothing to lose by playing him…
Hi Alan, your right Stoke did what they do an could have scored 4.we do need someone who can do some magic with a dead ball an hylton needs to be supporting collo can’t argue with that mate. But clearly we know where the problem lies.