Jordan Clark praised some strong half time words from manager Matt Bloomfield and a tactical tweak to their pressing game that sparked a dominant second-half display in their 2-0 win at Peterborough that left the midfielder owing new striker Nakhi Wells a favour.
Clark said the first 45 minutes at London Road “didn’t look like us” with the team struggling to execute their game plan. But after reviewing video clips and receiving a half-time rally from the manager, Luton came out transformed, dominating the second period.
Mads Andersen opened the scoring on the hour with a diving header from a corner and then Clark was on hand to tap-in after Wells had forced an error from the keeper and teed the midfielder up from a few yards out.
“I’ll take a couple more of them, to be fair,” Clark said. “It just shows you and that’s what we work on. The manager wants us to press the keepers in this league. Any backpass, any little mistakes from their centre halves we’ve got to jump on it.
“So, fair play to Nakhi as well, and obviously very unselfish to square it to me, which was very kind and hopefully I can repay him in the next couple of games.”
The goals came after a half time talking to from Bloomfield and Clark said of the first period: “It just didn’t look like us. It didn’t look nice. It didn’t feel good on the pitch and probably didn’t look good from the stands.
“But a few choice words between the lads and obviously the manager wasn’t happy with us, so we came on in the second half and you could see that’s how we should be playing. Hopefully, we can take it to next week now.”
The victory was also a reward for the club’s travelling support, with just shy of 4,000 fans travelling Town fans making strong showing at London Road.
“We wanted to get them off their seats,” Clark told the BBC. “The fans really got behind us and were rewarded with a good second half.”
Looking ahead, Clark acknowledged the challenges that lie ahead in League One.
“It’s gonna be a long old season,” he said. “There will be games where we don’t play well, but we’ll keep trying to get better and win as many games as we can.”
Luton now turn their attention to Tuesday’s trip to Coventry in the League Cup, hoping to carry the momentum from a convincing second half and build on their 100 per cent start to the season.
