One change for Luton as Wilshere demands better than 'worst' display against O's

Luton boss Jack Wilshere has made just one change to his side for tonight’s League One clash with Leyton Orient at Kenilworth Road, with goalscorer from the weekend, Shayden Morris, in for Cohen Bramall, who dropped to the bench, where he was joined by Reuell Walters for the first time in the league since the trip to Peterborough United in August.

It means that top scorer Gideon Kodua keeps his place having netted twice against his former team on Saturday, and speaking about the attacker, who is now up to seven for the season, Wilshere said: “I’m really happy with Gideon. I can see how hungry he is, he’s always asking questions from me, always asking questions of the coaches about how he can add more goals to his game, add more assists to his game.

"If he can start doing that and start doing that more consistently, there’s going to be a real player there as he has the ability to either play inside and receive between the lines or the ability to play on the outside and create things, so I'm happy for him. We spoke about attacking those spaces, dragging them over to one side and the way they pressed with five in midfield, getting someone to jump out of midfield.

"I thought Walshy’s (Liam Walsh) pass was outstanding, Lamine (Fanne) received it really well and I always say when you’re in the final third, it’s the players, they have to make the decisions as anything can happen. Lamine made a good decision and maybe the goalie probably won’t be happy with it, but it was a nice move and nice to finish it off.”

The two sides met recently at the BetWright Stadium, as an awful game of football saw the O’s move ahead after an error from Kal Naismith, Kodua rescuing a point with a stoppage time strike. For Wilshere it was without doubt a contest to forget, as he added: “We know Leyton Orient, we played them recently and we weren’t good enough in that game.

"I actually felt that was probably one of our worst performances, even if you think about Barnsley. I thought we were worse against Leyton Orient than we were at Barnsley. Luckily we’ve got personality, we’ve got resilience, we’ve got character to bring ourselves back in the game, but we will be wanting to make it into a different game than that, and we’ll have to be ready on that day.”

Hatters: Josh Keeley, Nigel Lonwijk, Teden Mengi, Mads Andersen, Joe Johnson, Liam Walsh, Lamine Fanne, Jordan Clark, Gideon Kodua, Nahki Wells, Shayden Morris. Subs: James Shea, Cohen Bramall, Jerry Yates, George Saville, Reuell Walters, Jacob Brown, Zack Nelson.

O’s: Tommy Simkin, Tom James, Jack Simpson, Ollie O’Neill, Tyreeq Bakinson, Josh Koroma, Omar Beckles ©, Jack Moorhouse, Charlie Wellens, Sean Clare, Dominic Ballard. Subs: Killian Cahill, Demetri Mitchell, Mitchell Craigh, Joe White, Zech Obiero, Phil Chinedu, Theo Archibald. Booked: Westergaard 42. Referee: Neil Hair.