Hatters confirms Town will appeal Lockyer's red card

Luton boss Nathan Jones has confirmed the club will definitely appeal the red card shown to defender Tom Lockyer during this evening’s 1-0 defeat at Brentford.

In stoppage time, the Town centre half clashed when going up for an aerial challenge with Ivan Toney, Lockyer believing the striker had connected with an elbow.

Then when Simon Sluga sent the free kick forward, Toney went to ground, with Lockyer shown a straight red and the Bees striker collecting a second yellow as they both headed down the tunnel.

An angry Lockyer was incensed with the decision, protesting his innocence, with Jones saying afterwards: “I’ve seen it, I can tell you it’s not a red card, it’s categorically not a red card.

“The foolish thing is he puts himself in a position to give him a decision, the linesman has seen it, so I don’t know what he’s seen, but it’s easy to give that.

“We’ll appeal that as Jefferson Lerma has got off with one on the weekend and our player has four stitches across the eye and was bleeding profusely so we expect that continuity is upheld.

“It’s getting into the game, I'm sure that if the boy has an element of honesty about himself then he'll look at it and thought ‘I've probably let myself down there’ as he's got sent off himself.

“So he’ll cost his team, but he's got ours sent off and it didn't look good in any way shape or form, I'd be embarrassed if I was him, but we'll see.”

Defender James Bree also added: “We've just been speaking about it and Locks is adamant he's not touched him and I've actually seen it and there's no way that he's got anywhere near him.

“I don't know what they’re both doing, I think Toney has made a big meal of it to be far, we’ll have a look at that and I think it’s going to get turned over a thousand per cent.”