Rob Edwards told his Luton players that he has “undoubted belief” that they will still fire their way to Wembley despite losing 2-1 in the Championship play-off semi-final first leg at Sunderland.
Town took the lead through Elijah Adebayo’s 10th goal of the season, a rebound tap-in after Alfie Doughty hit the post in a first half that they dominated until Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu upended Patrick Roberts outside the penalty box just before the break.
Manchester United loanee Amad Diallo then scored a top corner stunner from the free-kick to level things up – and from that moment of top-drawer quality everything changed.
The Black Cats dominated the second half, which was beset by one of the worst collective performances all season, just at the absolute worst time.
The usually reliable Marvelous Nakamba Was booked for a foul and was arguably lucky to stay on the pitch as he hacked at the home players in uncharacteristic fashion, so if you’re looking for silver linings, his continued availability could be one.
But the Zimbabwean midfielder will have to find some finesse from somewhere because, perhaps for the first time since he joined on loan from Aston Villa in January, not only was his tackling way off, but his passing too. But it was endemic throughout the midfield of Jordan Clark and Mpanzu and Town’s ineffective wide men, Alfie Doughty and Cody Drameh.
But, in truth, virtually every Town player was sluggish to second balls and could not cope with Sunderland’s pace, skill, sharpness and pressing, with Diallo giving them a torrid time.
The only foot the forward put wrong was to try and con a second penalty in as many games against the Hatters. This time he was rightfully booked for simulation, though in the regular season, the undeserved point he nicked went a long way to Sunderland qualifying for the play-offs.
In contrast, Town’s top two, Carlton Morris and Adebayo, barely had a touch, such was Town’s impotence in going forward.
And then, in the 63rd minute Jack Clarke found Trai Hume, who nipped in front of Gabriel Osho to head the hosts into a lead that Luton never looked remotely like they could recover.
But boss Edwards is still confident his team can do the job on Tuesday and get the second-leg victory – with the help of a cacophonous home crowd – that will keep alive their Premier League dream.
“We can do noise at Kenilworth Road and we’ll need it. We need to bring that,” the Hatters manager said.
“They (Sunderland fans) were well up for it tonight and I know our lot will be up for it on Tuesday.
“It’s half-time, I’ve got to stress that. We’re right in the game, everyone knows that. It’s 2-1 and there’s 90 minutes of football at least to go, so we need everyone behind us for the whole duration of the game. The lads will give everything.”
The Hatters will have to find the mental resilience to deal with their first defeat in 15 games and a long four months since they’d been defeated after taking the lead.
Edwards said: “We haven’t lost many games for a long, long time. I’m seeing this as half-time. Of course, it’s a game of football, I get it, but there’s still a long way to go in this.
“We have to believe and I’ve told the lads I’ve got full, undoubted belief in them that they can do this, and that they will.
“We’ve got to recover, we’ve got to focus, we’ve got to eat well and try to sleep well because the turnaround time is difficult.
“We’ve had to travel all the way up here, and we’ve got to go back again. They’ve just got to travel down before the two games, so it probably doesn’t favour us in terms of that. We’ve got to recover really well and get ourselves up for Tuesday, which won’t be hard to do.”
Diallo’s goal raised the noise levels inside a previously quiet Stadium of Light, with 45,000 fans then having a cigar on for the second period which was a comfortable procession towards a 50th year since Luton last won in Sunderland.
Asked what role Hatters fans can play in the return leg, Edwards said: “Huge. Massive. You see it today. It’s cauldron, it’s hard to hear yourself think, but I thought the lads dealt with that really well, especially in the first half.
“I’m really pleased with massive elements of what the lads did tonight, how we performed and the bravery they showed.
“We know we can be better in certain areas, but we’re right in the game and I think anyone at half-time in these kinds of games, in these semi-finals, you want to be going back home and we certainly are.”
Speaking to the BBC, Edwards added: “All the focus now, for the lads and the staff, is on recovery. The coaching team will work on revising the game and trying to make sure that we get the right decisions for Tuesday night.”
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