Brad Potts has fantastic goalscoring attributes – Preston boss Ryan Lowe

Preston boss Ryan Lowe hailed Brad Potts’ ‘fantastic’ winner as his side picked up their first Sky Bet Championship victory of the season with a 1-0 success at Luton.

The wing-back settled the encounter after just 18 minutes, scoring a wonderful flying volley at the back post from Robbie Brady’s cross, following up his first strike of the season during Tuesday night’s Carabao Cup triumph at Huddersfield.

Lowe said: “I just remember seeing him in the air with his two feet and thinking ‘what’s he doing’ and it hits the back of the net.

“Potts has got fantastic goalscoring attributes, I think he’s had that all his career, but in a different role.

“I’m pleased with one wing-back crossing to the opposite wing-back and finding a goal, that’s how we work, we want them in the box.

“If he continues to keep scoring goals like that, I expect the wing-backs to get between five and 10 goals anyway, and he’s off the mark with two.

“I thought the performance was okay, we could have done better in certain situations, but we defended very well and we managed the game very well.

“You can’t come to Luton and go toe-to-toe with them, we knew that, the gameplan was a little bit different to what it normally is because we have to respect a good Luton team that have just missed out on getting into the Premier League last season.”

Potts’ goal lit up a poor first half in Bedfordshire, Luton going close when Luke Freeman dragged wide and Carlton Morris putting a header straight at Freddie Woodman.

After the break, Cauley Woodrow chipped inches over from James Bree’s pass, while Allan Campbell sliced off target and Elijah Adebayo blazed wide, with the visitors’ Troy Parrott shooting straight at Ethan Horvath twice.

Luton manager Nathan Jones