Luton boss might have to make changes during Town's three game week after Sky Blues shocker

​Luton boss Rob Edwards conceded he may well have to make changes to his side as Town are currently in the middle of yet another three game week.

When the Hatters were last involved in such a congested period, they performed impressively against Watford and Sunderland, beating their fiercest rivals 3-0 and then suffering a harsh 2-1 defeat to the Black Cats. However, the third match led to a fairly inept display, as having made just one alteration in the three matches, Luton let a fortunate 2-0 half time lead slip to go down 3-2 at Coventry City.

With that in mind, on whether he will looked to rotate his squad when Town, who drew 1-1 at West Bromwich Albion on Friday night, host Cardiff City this evening and then visit Middlesbrough at 12.30pm on Saturday, Edwards said: “Hopefully we’ve got a few more back so we can freshen things up, as I didn’t feel we could freshen things up too much from the one game to the other last time. You could argue at half time (against Coventry), I know they were well in the game and had some chances but you could argue that it was the right thing.

"We were 2-0 up and in a good position, although they had chances I understand that. But I think what is clear by the time you get to that turnaround and it’s more 60 hours as opposed to 70-odd hours from a Saturday, Tuesday, then you might have to try and freshen it up more. We tried to make the early subs and go about it that way, but it might be this time that we’ve got to try and start different people. We looked at it and felt, with what we’ve got at the moment, that was the right way to go, but maybe we might have to look at it this week.”

Whatever happens, Edwards won’t be altering his side’s high intensity approach during either fixture with the Bluebirds and Boro though, as the Town chief added: “We can’t change how we play and our set-up because that’s got to be us. If we turned up and decided to sit off our opposition, I think the fans would come and kill me, so we’ve got to make sure we play with the right intensity, that’s really important, that can’t change.

"We’ve got to get this game out of the way first and then we can make the right decisions going into Saturday. We can’t take our eye off the ball and lose focus but we’re obviously aware there’s a quick turnaround. We’ve got to make sure we make the right decisions and the benefit of hopefully people coming back and returning then we’ve got a little bit more depth there to be able to choose from.

"Whether that’s changes earlier (against Cardiff) if we need the impact, like we did the other day, or changes going into Saturday, we’ll see. But at the moment we seem to have a few more options going into this week which is helpful.”