3 things we clearly learnt about Luton Town after their 1-0 win v Forest

Luton Town hosted Nottingham Forest yesterday in a play-off clash at the top of the Championship. 

Town went 1-0 up in the 37th minute through a Kal Naismith penalty after Jack Colback hand-balled it in the box.

Despite Luton going down to ten men in the 77th minute after a Sonny Bradley second yellow card, Nathan Jones’ side held on to come out with all three points.

The win means Luton are fourth in the league and a point ahead of Nottingham Forest as it stands.

Here, we take a look at three things we clearly learnt about Luton Town following their victory.

They are effective when they have the ball

Looking at the statistics from yesterday, Luton only had 37% possession whilst Nottingham Forest had 63%.

This is quite a significant difference in possession and it shows us that Luton know how to be effective when they have the ball.

Luton had eight shots in total in the game meaning they were not sitting back and rather were able to get forward and get themselves into attacking positions up the pitch.

However, they were never left open at the back shown by the fact they didn’t concede any goals despite Forest having 11 shots.

Therefore, it shows that Luton know their own system and the jobs they have to do as players to make sure that they make it count when they have the ball and that’s certainly what they did yesterday as they came away with all three points.

They are adaptable 

Luton have had some injury issues of late and as a consequence in their last three games, they haven’t had the same line up once.

However, through shifting around with line-ups and tactics they have come out of these three games with four points and after losing to Huddersfield last week, this week’s points were very important.

Furthermore,