Nathan Jones says Luton have no problems playing at home and that it’s just a matter of time before his men take their chances and bag a hatful, just like when Coventry last came to town.
The Hatters have not won at Kenilworth Road this season, with their last outing a stunning last ten-minute capitulation to lose 2-1 to Wigan.
Tonight, Coventry return to the scene of a 5-0 hammering at the hands of the Luton, in a result that felt significant at a similar point in the last campaign when the Sky Blues were top of the table.
This term, City are propping up the Championship having played three less games that Town due to problems with their pitch causing postponements.
While Jones says Mark Robins’ men are “in a false position” so won’t be pushovers, he also believes his men haven’t yet got the rewards they’ve deserved on home soil.
The manager said: “It’s not like we’ve been really poor at home. We haven’t. We’ve just got to take our chances.
“There’s nothing wrong with playing at home. I love playing at home. Fans will play their part under the lights and let’s hope for a really good night again.”
Luton have only scored twice in the Championship at Kenilworth Road this season, both stunning headers from Carlton Morris, with last term’s top scorer Elijah Adebayo still to hit the net, though he’s had his chances.
Asked if it was only a matter of time before things clicked for his side, Jones said: “It is about us doing the right things. One, keeping clean sheets and, two, creating and taking chances.
“Whatever game that is, we can’t pre-empt that, if I can win every game 1-0 I would win every game 1-0. We’re more worried about results than anything else, but we’ve created enough chances in certain games to really be emphatic at times, it’s just making sure we get that rhythm because we have a couple of new players coming into the side and we have people like Alfie (Doughty) coming back.
“Cauley (Woodrow) as well is gathering momentum so there is potential to be a high-scoring team, we just have to keep doing the right things.
“That’s one, keeping clean sheets so we don’t have to chase games, making sure we create and take chances and then being clinical when they come about. If we do that, anything is possible.
“You look at some teams who score three and four, and they have just been clinical on the day, no better chances than what we’ve had, just they have been clinical on the day.
“We’ve missed chances, we had a great chance early on in the Wigan game to score after three minutes, if we did that then been as dominant as we were and got the goal before half-time, it’s a totally different game.
“It’s small margins, performance levels haven’t been an issue, we’ve been good overall it is just we’ve been unfortunate that we haven’t got four, five, six more points.”
But Jones admits there’s little that can be done to aid converting chances, but they can work on keeping the supply lines open.
“The creating of them is something you can analyse and work towards, the taking of them is down to the individual. Everyone has to chip in,” he said.
“It’s just about finding the rhythm. Once you find the rhythm, like some days last year, we created one or two chances a game and won the game.
“This year we’re creating far more, we’re still as potent and we’re still creating as many, it’s just we have to take them and that will come.
“You just keep doing that, but at the same time we have to keep clean sheets because we haven’t kept as many clean sheets as we would have liked, even when we won the game at Cardiff the other day, it would have been good to keep a clean sheet.
“Sheffield United didn’t have many chances against us but it would have been nice if we could have defended one situation albeit it was offside, then it would have given us a clean sheet.”
