Wilshere overjoyed with Luton's first half display as Town go back-to-back at home
Hatters have the job done by half time after taking 3-0 lead
Luton boss Jack Wilshere was overjoyed with his side’s first half performance as they recorded back-to-back home wins for the first time since he took over when beating Leyton Orient 3-0 at Kenilworth Road this evening.
The Hatters went into the game on the back of a thumping 4-0 success over Wycombe Wanderers on Boxing Day, and they were up and running quickly once more, Gideon Kodua able to receive Mads Andersen’s pass, drive forward and then arrow his shot into the bottom corner for an eighth goal of the campaign with just eight minutes gone.
Jordan Clark then doubled the advantage from the penalty spot on 19 minutes, after Wells was tripped in the box by Jack Simpson, before a third arrived just eight minutes before the break, Shayden Morris netting at the back post when Wells flicked Kodua’s cross into his path. Although the second period was then pretty much a non-event, Town completed the perfect Christmas period by taking six points from six ahead of two away games at Exeter City and Doncaster Rovers in the next week.
Speaking afterwards, Wilshere said: “We spoke after the Reading game about having a mentality shift of a good performance, but now we need to win games and we did that. Then after the game against Wycombe we spoke about, okay now we need to go back-to-back and start building that momentum and we did that, so I’m really happy with that.
“I thought we were excellent, I thought our decision-making around when to play, when to be a little bit more vertical, and when I talk about being vertical I don’t mean we played long balls into nowhere, it might be a pass through the lines, it might be that we go straight into our nine. So I thought our decision-making was good around that and again, we took our moments at important times and I’m really happy with that.”