Nathan Jones says Luton’s run of results is his worst as manager, but the form his men have been showing means there’s not much he needs to change.
Town are six games without a win, though Saturday’s 2-1 reverse at Championship leaders was their only their second defeat in that spell.
At Bristol City they should’ve won, due to their dominance and the number of chances they created, but had to settle for a draw and then in their last home game, the Hatters were 3-0 up after 31 minutes against Swansea but were pegged back late on to only take a point.
And, even against the Cherries, Town had the chances to have taken something from the game, when they finished the stronger.
“It is weird and very difficult because it is probably the worst run I’ve had as Luton manager without a win. We have to do the basics better, we have to keep clean-sheets because then we don’t lose the game.
“We have been in good form, for large parts of game we have been really front-footed and quite dominant, but it is the Championship and it can punish you out of nothing.
“We haven’t got to change masses of amounts, but we have to start picking up results. We have two home games now that we really want to take advantage of and that is what it is about.
“If we were a really poor side and getting beaten, then we would have to change certain things but we’re not. We’re an aggressive side, front-footed side, we understand we have gone through a tough time in terms of results and injuries but we’re coming through that now and as I said, it is a big week for us.”
Captain Sonny Bradley is back in contention after going unused on the bench at the weekend, after pulling out in the warm-up against Swansea.
And Jones said of his injury-hit squad: “(We’re in) much better shape, we’re getting a few people back, some more training in their legs so we’re in better shape.”
Town face in-form Coventry City at Kenilworth Road tomorrow night at Kenilworth Road, with the Sky Blues unbeaten this month, having conceded only once in four games to see them third place in the league on goal difference.
Luton have only won once on home soil so far this term, on the opening day of the season against newly promoted Peterborough, but Jones believes there’s no reason to panic.
The manager said: “There is a process here, we have a way of doing stuff. We cant keep saying it, but we should have beaten Bristol City and we should have beaten Swansea City, we have had enough chances to win a lot of games.
“There are sides in this division in good form that haven’t created what we have, not like we are, so we just have to keep going and keep believing in what we do.
“Sides have ups and downs but if we start panicking and changing then we are going away from process. If we don’t pick up results then we have to go back to basics and back to post-covid times and we need points but at the minute we are in good form, it is just certain things we have to tweak. Certain individual stuff, collective stuff, and we will do that.”
