Luton Town – Jack Talks – Chelsea (a)
Out but certainly not down.
Last night, down at Stamford Bridge, Luton Town put on a plucky performance against Chelsea, but eventually came up short.
We always knew it would be difficult against a Chelsea side packed with exceptional talent, but the lads done us proud.
Although Jack Wilshere, at times, looked a frustrated man, sat in the dug-out, as Chelsea continually pushed the Hatters back, I am sure his heart was beating with pride at the way his side played.
After the game and talking to the media, as reported by – Luton Today – the gaffer is quoted as having remarked:
“The first thing is, we don’t like losing, and I felt that in the dressing room, but my message to the players is be really proud. A lot of teams in the Premier League will come here and try and do what we’ve done, frustrate them, stop them from playing through us, kill the spaces that they’re good in.”
It was always going to be hard, especially when facing the likes of Cole Palmer and Morgan Rogers who are given licence to roam where they want and with so many opposition players pushing forward. But to keep it to 0-0, at half time, was an achievement in itself.
Continuing, Jack added:
“I thought we did that really well in the first half. We put a lot of energy into that, we could have been better at times with the ball and picked our moments, whether to attack fast, which there was space to do, or to keep the ball to try and take a little bit of control, because we’re good at that. You saw the players in the second half do that and do that well, but ultimately really proud of the players for competing the way they did. I was saying to them, we can come up with a plan of how we want to do it, but they have to execute and I thought they did that really well.”
I reckon our lads did exceptionally well, several teams playing in the Premier League will venture to SW6 and do far worse than we did, you just wait and see.
However, in making 6 changes from the team that drew with Notts County, last Saturday, Jack may have given himself a selection headache, did the likes of Joe Johnson, Harrison Ashby, Callum Marshall and Benedict Benagr do enough to deserve a start against Mansfield Town, this weekend?
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