Luton boss Rob Edwards admitted he had a few choice words with his squad during the aftermath of their bitterly disappointing 2-1 defeat against QPR at Kenilworth Road on Friday night.
The hosts had looked on course for a long overdue opening victory of the campaign at the break, Jimmy Dunne’s own goal giving them a 1-0 advantage. Town started the second half in a positive manner too, Elijah Adebayo seemingly destined to double the Hatters’ advantage when being played clean through on goal by Shandon Baptiste only to fire against the legs of visiting keeper Paul Nardi.
That was to prove a pivotal moment as Rangers swiftly levelled, Michael Frey taking advantage of some ponderous defending from Mark McGuinness to find Nicolas Madsen on the hour mark, who easily beat an exposed Thomas Kaminski. Moments later it was Frey who was the beneficiary of some woeful marking to thunder a volley beyond Kaminski and leave the home crowd shell-shocked.
Despite injury time chances for Carlton Morris and Joe Taylor, the Hatters slumped to yet another reverse in front of their own supporters and asked what he had said to his players following the result, Edwards said: “I’ve had a word with a few in the dressing room. It’s not really (throwing teacups), but I’ll keep that in there.”
