Andrew Shinnie says playing at big stadiums in the Championship is will not phase Luton and he used their first half performance at Hillsborough on Tuesday as the example.
Town dominated the contest and the ball in the first period against Sheffield Wednesday and should have gone ahead with a well-worked move that Ryan Tunnicliffe blazed over.
Shinnie also saw an audacious effort tipped over after he tried to catch keeper Keiren Westwood out with a long range volley after the out-of-position stopper cleared directly to him.
Only a defensive mistake in the 54th minute allowed Kadeem Harris to score the winner and consign the Hatters to a third straight defeat for the first time since April 2016, but Shinnie insists it will not deter Town.
“It’s nothing to fear,” the midfielder said of away days at big grounds, adding: “We’ll play, take the ball in tight areas and take risks, whereas a lot of teams don’t really play that way.
“It’s the way we want to play and we do it well, try to play through the lines, work on patterns of play and in the first half their fans kind of turned a little bit.
“We were in control and the longer the game goes on you’re thinking we just need to get that once chance, take it, but obviously we’ve made a little mistake and, at this level, these are good players and they punished us.”
The plan at Hillsborough had gone well enough for some pockets of the Sheffield support to boo their team at half time.
Shinnie said: “I don’t know if people underestimate us, but we believe we can come to these places and we believe we’re a good footballing team.
“I don’t think fans like to see other teams play the way we play, controlling the game. You want to do that away from home. You want to try to turn the fans and make it edgy.
“We were doing that really well and the game was going to plan but we gave the first goal away and that gave them a bit of a lift. They got a bit of energy from that. We rode it out for a five minute spell when they were really on top and we finished quite strong but we just need to have that little bit more belief that we can win games.
“We’re still upbeat. We’re going to get prepared, go to Barnsley and try to get that first win.”
