Wingback gutted that Town can’t claim all three points

Practice is most definitely paying off for Luton’s free-kick specialist Cohen Bramall, although he couldn’t take as much pleasure as he would have liked from his best of the lot against Port Vale on Saturday.

Having found the net with wonderful strikes in Town’s Vertu Trophy victory over Barnet and then the 3-0 League One success at Stockport County, when George Saville won a cheap set-piece some 25 yards from goal at the weekend, there was only one person charged with taking it. An almost expectant Kenilworth Road crowd were hushed as Bramall stepped up, breaking out into celebration moments later as the former Arsenal youngster arrowed another truly superb attempt over the wall and into the top corner, giving visiting keeper, ex-Manchester United stopper Ben Amos no chance at all.

However, the Valiants then hit back to lead 2-1 themselves after goals from Ben Waine and Devante Cole, before Mads Andersen’s header from Liam Walsh’s corner rescued a point against against the league’s bottom side. Bramall did line another effort up later in the contest, but from slightly further out, he couldn’t get his attempt to come down in time, although Amos gave it the full dive once more just in case. He also sliced wide in stoppage time too, meaning the fact Town only emerged with a point took the shine off his own personal achievement, as speaking afterwards, Bramall said: “I practice them a lot of the time, after training I’ll take 10, 15 on my own to practice the same technique.

“I’ll keep doing it until the end of my career, I’ll always keep practicing and I’ll do them on the other side too. I back myself to hit the target in that situation to be fair and as soon as I kicked the ball I knew, so it was a good feeling. I had another one which was a bit further out, but I still backed myself again. It just didn’t dip, and I need it to dip a bit earlier as if that’s on target, it goes in the top corner.

"The goal’s great, it’s a good feeling, it’s just frustrating that we haven't taken the three points as that's what matters the most. I’m fuming, the lads are fuming and again it’s just a kick in the teeth getting a draw when we know we can get three points. We just need to bite the bullet and go again, but another frustrating day. We're gutted. Again, we're getting momentum too late on in the game. It's just believing in ourselves more and taking more chances and being confident in ourselves, that's all it is.

"We don’t get too high and don't get too low though. If we win, we win and it’s a great feeling, but just head down and on to the next one. If we lose or draw, it's the same thing. I think it's a good mentality to keep that the same, just be in the medium. That's what I’ll tell myself and tell the lads, just always look forward to the next game and keep that momentum.”

The fact that Bramall has such pinpoint accuracy from a dead ball situation came as no shock to Hatters boss Jack Wilshere either due to what he witnesses at the Brache on a regular basis. On summer addition, he added: “It’s no surprise as he practices. I promise, if you came and watched him practice, if he took 10, eight or nine of them are going in like that. He’s perfecting the technique and he keeps practicing, keeps practicing and credit to him, he’s delivered. As it’s one thing doing it in training, but doing it in a game is harder.”