Manager Graeme Jones hit out at Luton’s ‘impossible’ predilection for giving goals away as they slumped to a sixth straight away defeat at fellow Championship strugglers Stoke City.
The defeat saw their relegation points buffer cut to three points, as James McClean made the most of Andrew Shinnie getting caught in possession in the 35th minute before Joe Allen headed a second in first half injury time.
And the Welshman made the result secure five minutes into the second half, when he robbed Glen Rea – making his first appearance for nearly a year – to fire past James Shea.
Luton managed just one shot on target all game, despite edging the possession stats, but it was at the other end where Jones’ frustrations lay.
He said: “It’s not frustrating, it’s impossible, it’s too many (mistakes), it’s happened too often.
“The result is a result of those errors. You can’t play at this level of football and give goals to the opposition and that’s what we’re doing at the moment.
“For 35 minutes, I thought we came to Stoke, reasonably controlled the game, I can’t remember them having an effort on our goal.
“Ryan Tunnicliffe had a great opportunity in the six yard box, we don’t pull the trigger, an individual error, all of a sudden we’re 1-0 down.
“Then trying to attack, we get picked off, 2-0. We try to change a few things at half time, bringing George (Moncur) on and Glen on to give us a bit more solidity, and another individual error and you’re 3-0 down.”
