Nathan Jones speaks out on Luton Town’s recent team issues

Luton Town’s play-off dream is still alive – but after dropping points against Peterborough in midweek, Nathan Jones has admitted to Luton Today that he ‘hasn’t been able to play a settled team’ due to injuries.

The fact that the boss has had to tinker and tailor his team based on the players available to him does mean that he can’t simply stick with a starting eleven that can get the job done. Instead, he has had to move players around and select consistently different personnel for different games over the last few fixtures.

Against Peterborough, James Bree had to stand in centrally despite normally playing on the right flank for example, with Peter Kioso another who normally finds his home on the wing that had to play as a centre-back against Posh.

Injuries have meant that this is a necessity for Nathan Jones’ side – and the Hatters will be desperate to get as many players back as possible, as they won’t want to drop out of the play-off spots now at this vital point in the season.

Right now, the club are fourth in the division and have six games left to pick up as many points as possible. Blackburn in seventh are only three points away from them and Nottingham Forest below them are four off – but also have three games in hand on the Hatters.

Luton then cannot afford to drop points – and manager Nathan Jones has admitted to Luton Today that he would like to play a settled team, as the club’s injuries have come ‘at the wrong time’ in the campaign.

He said: “We haven’t been able to rotate in certain areas, centre halves we’ve been depleted, so we’ve had to play full backs in that area and done fantastically well as we’ve taken eight from 12 points with all our centre halves out.

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