After the best-ever pre-game speech and goal against Watford, Luton boss Rob Edwards says he’s challenged captain Carlton Morris and his squad to match their derby day display “all the time”.
Town take on Championship leaders Sunderland tonight at Kenilworth Road, just five days after the biggest victory over their arch-rivals in 43 years.
After three games out injured Morris returned to face the Hornets with a goal and an all-action man-of-the-match captain’s display, on and off the pitch.
“He was brilliant,” said Edwards, revealing: “I’ve heard this speech before the game was the best that the lads have ever heard as well. So that was good.
“He was just really, really up for it, as he had been all week. And this is what I’ve challenged him and the rest of the boys is that, ‘you’ve seen that, we felt that and that’s what it’s going to be all the time’.
“We’re human beings and not robots. So it’s difficult to go and be the same. Every game is different. It brings different challenges.
“You can’t always be at your peak at your best all of the time. But we’ve, and Carlton in particular, I think has set almost a new level for himself there.
“He’s been brilliant for us since we’ve come in, for two years now. Though he didn’t get through the whole game, I think it was arguably his best ever game under us.
“And I think there’s actually a few that that come into that thought. I thought Alfie (Doughty) was as well.”
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