A spirited second half fightback at Queens Park Rangers came to nothing on Saturday as Harry Cornick admitted that Luton wouldn’t have deserved to get a result even if they’d manage to take a point.
Town were 3-0 down by the 28th minute and it should have been more but QPR hit the woodwork twice.
Yet a Tom Lumley goalkeeping gift allowed Cornick to fire into an unguarded net from 35 yards, for his third of the season, before the forward provided the fourth in four games for James Collins.
There was still 42 minute remainng at that point but the Hatters couldn’t force an equaliser and lost 3-2.
Cornick said: “For us, it’s quite disappointing not to get a result from the game. I don’t think we actually deserved to get one, but sometimes in football you don’t deserve to get it, but you get the points. We need to learn from it really.”
But the turnaround in the second period was quite marked after the woeful defending before the interval and, towards the end of the game, the Rs fans were getting nervous.
Cornick said: “We always believe, that’s part of the Luton spirit. I don’t think we give in easily and even at 3-0 you’ve always got a chance.
“I thought we came back into the game really well gave us a chance to get a result which is all we can ask for but we couldn’t quite get there in the end so it’s disappointing.
“I thought the end of the game we played really well but you can’t come to places like this, be 3-0 down, and expect to get results.
“The start was not good enough from us, from front to back it was a whole team effort and we need to pick the bones out of it in the video see where we went wrong.”
With Luton going into the game in West London on the back of three straight victories, confidence was high, but they had to put that on ice during the international break.
Asked if Luton’s slow start was down to that enforced period, Cornick said: “You could put a number of reasons towards it, but I just don’t think we were good enough. We gave the ball away sloppily. In the first half we didn’t defend well, then we didn’t take our chances as well. It was an all-round bad performance in the first half, but the second half was a bit more promising and hopefully we can take that into the next game.”
On his strike on 36 minutes, after Lumley passed straight to him, Cornick said: “You’ve got to get what you’re given really. The keeper has made a mistake and I’ve put it in the back of the net, so give us a chance.
“In the second half, we started well, Collo scores and at 3-2 it’s a whole different game. I thought we could’ve nicked it at the end and got a point that maybe we didn’t deserve, but that’s football.”
