Harry Cornick is hoping he can break his duck against Watford, which he admits is the biggest game of Luton’s season.
The attacker is yet to score this season, though he’s been playing a wider role than he did last term, so has been tasked more with providing assists.
Cornick leads the way in assists for the Hatters, with seven this season, but his last goal came late in last weekend’s 3-1 comeback victory against basement boys Wycombe Wanderers, when he teed up striker Elijah Adebayo for a towering header.
The Watford derby will be Cornick’s 39th appearance this term. At the same stage last season, he’d notched eight times, but his last Luton strike came ten months ago at Leeds United.
“Hopefully they’ve all been saved up for Saturday’s game,” the 26-year-old exclusively told the Luton Town Supporters’ Trust Podcast.
“If I got a few against Watford all would be forgiven from the fans and they’ll let me off for no goals this year.
“No goals, has obviously been a tough one for me, personally. It plays on your mind and you go into every game thinking about it, but as long as I’m helping the team, getting assists, creating chances and working hard for the team, I think that’s the main thing.”
Town host fierce local rivals Watford at Kenilworth Road on Saturday for the first time in 15 years, having lost 1–0 to the Hornets in the return fixtures earlier this season, which was notable, as the weekend will be, for supporters being shut out from the stadium, due to Covid restrictions.
“We’ve been speaking all week about it,” Cornick said, adding: “(Assistant manager) Mick Harford’s been banging on about how he scored a hat-trick in 1986, or whatever it was, and how much it meant to him and the fans back then.
“We know it’s a massive game for the fans. There’s no two ways about it. I’ve had messages all week and all season, saying this is a huge game.
“We know it is. Obviously, it would be a bit tastier with the fans there, and that would spur us on, but it could spur them on as well.
“We need to make sure we’re putting our all in on the pitch for the fans and let them know how much this game means to us as well, as it means to them.”
Cornick added: “Saturday is going to be the biggest game of our season, for sure. That’s the one that we want to win. If we can get a result against them it would mean so much to us as a club.
“When we lost to them, 1-0 at the start of the year, the game didn’t really go the way we wanted it to. It never developed how we were trying to, so we do feel that we owe these one, because it’s a big derby for us.
“We need to make sure we don’t lose two to them and hopefully get a result on Saturday.”
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