Gaffer Reflects On Missed Chances Costing Luton Town Dearly At Deepdale

It’s the morning after the night before and it hard to accept that the Hatters failed to take all three points on offer, against Preston North End.

Instead of snatching the three points on offer to bolster our chances of gaining one of the four play-off places, we had to accept a solitary point that has now seen in-form Middlesbrough open up a four point gap.

After taking the lead, Luton should, and could, have put the game to bed with the quantity of chances that they missed, a point Rob Edwards was willing to reflect on in his post-match interview, as reported by the BBC:

“I’m really pleased with big parts of the performance and we’ve got to look at performances, but ultimately we want results. We want points on the board and I do feel like it was two points dropped tonight.

“I thought we got that goal, they had that man sent off, and we were looking completely dominant, as I really felt we were with 11 men as well.

“We kept pushing, we kept trying, but we weren’t able to find that second goal, which I know I’ve said a couple of times lately.

“You can’t do that much more then create the chances we created, and then it’s down to the boys to either hit the target or be ruthless.

“That’s something we’re going to try and keep focusing on and keep hitting home, but what I’m really pleased with is the performance and how we did create the chances.”

The ‘missed’ chances point was something that was picked up, by many, on social media, as the following posts illustrate perfectly:

Shooting practice needed in training tomorrow

— . (@uptheluton) February 15, 2023

Poor performance if we are being really honest. Sorely miss a clinical finisher and that’s our downfall this season. Automatic now out of reach. Too many dropped points

— Hobgoblin Gold (@HobgoblinGold) February 15, 2023

I think it’s fair to say that the automatic promotion places have been out of our reach for a while, Burnley and Sheffield United (although they were beaten last night) look to have those spots sewn up.

But continuing:

Points dropped. Should have been a win, just lacked that killer touch in front of goal.

— Dave (@HattersDave) February 15, 2023

Brilliant performance just couldn’t put the ball in the net. Play like that for the remainder of our games and we will be in the playoffs. Perfect performance to bring out the bed wetters!

— Tom Allen (@tomallen77) February 15, 2023

Love the ‘bed wetter’ jibe, it couldn’t be more true, here we are sat in 4th place and in control of our own destiny, but still there are those who expect Luton Town to win every game they contest, come on, football isn’t like that is it!

On Saturday, the Hatters welcome Burnley to Kenilworth Road, the toughest game of our season so far I’d say, can we rise to the occasion, let’s hope so.

COYH’s

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