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Hatters manager reacts to Sheffield United’s defeat.
Luton manager Rob Edwards is fully aware that he must ‘address’ the Hatters’ persistent difficulties following Saturday’s insipid 2-0 defeat at Sheffield United.

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The visitors arrived at Bramall Lane after only picking up one point in their previous two games, but they never looked like winning again against the Blades, as Jesurun Rak-Sakyi scored early in each half to keep the points in Sheffield. Speaking afterwards, Edwards, who is under increasing pressure, stated: “It’s on me; I’ve got to fix it.

“We’ll work hard on the training pitch, we’ll try to support the players, do what we always try to do, which is give clarity, work hard on and off the pitch to make sure we fix certain areas that we’re not doing well at the moment. Today, we didn’t want to open up as much, so we changed the shape, played a back four, kept things more compact.

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“We wanted to press from a bit more of a deeper shape, so we had more bodies behind the ball, but we still wanted to jump out and press at the right moments. In theory it looked good and then we were actually out there, they didn’t open us up loads unless it was a few mistakes, or right towards the end when we were beginning to open up more, there was one of two moments then. But yes we’ve got to work hard, stick together and turn this around.”

Town’s hopes of advancing in the game were dashed when Mark McGuinness and Reuell Walters failed to deal with a high ball, allowing Rak-Sakyi to sprint through and beat Thomas Kaminski. The on-loan Crystal Palace winger, who had been linked with Town during the transfer window, added a second shortly after the break, easily beating Walters and firing through Kaminski’s legs.

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Edwards went on to say, “You may lose here right now with the way they’re playing and the way we’re playing, but there are ways to win. We intended to give ourselves a little more stability, but the way we conceded the two goals that cost us the game were quite upsetting. The ball appears on the edge of the box, we do not challenge, the ball lands, we do not contest due to indecision, and before you know it, it is in the back of the net.

“It’s really frustrating as we had good numbers there, enough people to be able to deal with it. It was a different goal the second one, but again we were in a decent shape, had enough numbers to deal with it. Once it got to Rak-Sakyi it’s a dangerous moment and a one v one in the box. The ball went inside us, which was frustrating, but we had the numbers there to be able to deal with it.”

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Following the full time whistle, the Town chief was greeted with chants of ‘Edwards sort it out’ by the visiting fans, as on the reception he received, the manager added: “They were amazing and I thank them. I know they’re frustrated but I said this the other day, it’s on me and we’ve got to try and improve. I’m not trying to hide from it, I’ll go and say thankyou and apologise. I know they want a better performance, they’ve not come up here saying you have to win, I don’t think. They’re intelligent people, they don’t want to see those goals conceded, they don’t want to see us lose in that manner.”

 

 

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