Jones felt Luton did enough to get something during Royals loss

Luton boss Nathan Jones felt his side should have left the Madejski Stadium with something from the game after falling to a 2-1 defeat at Reading this afternoon.

The Hatters found themselves 2-0 down at the break after a poor first half by the visitors, before improving in the second period, ending up with more shots on target than their opponents.

However, the only goal they could manage came in the 90th minute from substitute Kazenga LuaLua, which didn't give Jones' men enough time to force an unlikely comeback, as the manager said: “We’ve had enough shots, enough opportunities and enough crosses but we didn't really show that pure quality to score.

“When you get in that final third and put a ball on a plate for someone and the runs meets that and the quality to finish, we had enough situations where we should have got something from the game but we didn't.

"That's sometimes a little bit of quality, sometimes a little bit of decision making, and that's the disappointing thing as we should have got something out of the game today.”

Town’s efforts in the opening 45 minutes left a lot to be desired, Tom McIntyre breaking the deadlock from a set-piece inside the opening 10 minutes and then Alfa Semedo going clean through to score just before half time.

Jones added: “That can happen to you at this level, there are some good sides who can do that to you.

"The second goal is a real swift counter attack and they scored with a great strike from a set-play.

"I’m just a bit disappointed with the build-up to their second goal, as we could have been better.

"We gave the ball away cheaply, we let people run off us, and that can't happen as you get punished, but we had enough of the game to score two goals today.

"We scored one, we had chances, should have had a penalty, had umpteen amounts of crosses and opportunities around the box, we just have to show a little bit more quality in terms of our play.”