Swansea City defeat at Luton ends in chaos as Russell Martin sent off and escorted from pitch

Russell Martin was sent off as Swansea City extended their winless run to four games after slipping to a 1-0 defeat to Luton Town in a bad-tempered contest at Kenilworth Road.

The Swans boss was dismissed following a mass brawl on the touchline involving both dugouts in the final few minutes of the game, and was escorted off the pitch by stewards.

The contest itself was decided by a first-half strike from Carlton Morris, who had already struck the crossbar with a header, before then finding the net just before half-time.

Swansea admittedly improved after the break, but a late Morgan Whittaker effort aside, failed to really test Ethan Horvath in the Luton goal.

The Swans have now won just three of their last 19 league games, and sit 17th in the Championship table. This performance will certainly have done nothing to ease the pressure on Martin, who became public enemy number one with the home crowd after being given his marching orders late on.

Martin made two changes from from the recent draw with Rotherham United, with Jay Fulton replacing skipper Matt Grimes, who missed out due to illness, while Luke Cundle was preferred to Whittaker.

The Swans boss also made the call to bring Jamie Paterson back to the matchday squad for the first time in nearly four months, in what was the biggest pre-match talking point. The forward was introduced midway inside the second half of another disappointing day at the office for the Swans.

Then again, they actually started this contest reasonably well, with Cundle warming the palms of Horvath with an early low drive.

But Luton slowly started to take control.

Elijah Adebayo headed over from Alfie Doughty's corner, while Morris got his header on target a few minutes later, but was denied by a