Luton chief wants side to be more of a goal threat despite fantastic start

Luton boss Nathan Jones has urged his side to be more of a goal threat when the season resumes after the international break.

The Hatters sit an impressive 10th in the table, with five wins from their opening 11 games, but have scored just nine times, the joint fourth lowest in the division.

Town have only found the net twice in two games so far, both at home, while their last three goals have all come from set-pieces.

Jones felt had they bagged a second when leading at half time during the weekend’s 1-1 draw at Huddersfield, it would have led them to victory.

He said: “We’ve got to be more fluent, then we win more games.

We work on it, we’d like to score one in open play as well.

“We’d have liked to get the second, if we got the second, as in the other day (against Nottingham Forest), we would have gone on and won the game I think.

“But we can’t be too disappointed as we lost to Brentford (on Saturday) and were comfortably beaten.

“So if someone said you will get four points and finish the week above Brentford, they’re a wonderful, wonderful footballing side, and as it stands now, we’re above them.”

At the other end, Town have impressed with their defensive solidity, conceding just 11 times, with four clean sheets, which is far better at this stage of last season, when they had already been breached on 20 occasions.

Jones added: “Defensively we’re working so hard, goalkeeper to back four, to midfielder, the front players, they work so hard.

“It’s big shifts and big shifts mean we’re picking up points, picking up results.

“If anyone had said to Luton fans you would be after 11 games on 17 points, in this position, five points off top of the league, only a dreamer would say no.

"A realist, a pragmatist a thorough Luton fan would say 'we’d take that' and I would have as well.

“That’s not me thinking we’ve overachieved or underachieved, we haven’t and we’ve deserved those points.”