Andy’s Player Ratings: Luton Town 2-0 Sunderland https://rokerreport.sbnation.com/20...nderland-our-brilliant-season-is-finally-over Anthony Patterson: 6/10 No chance with either goal but made one really good save in the first half. Almost set up a third for Luton with a very loose pass and dropped the ball in the first half that saw both Hume and O’Nien have to clear off the line. Unable to ease pressure from set pieces due to Luton players boxing him in. Lynden Gooch (C): 6/10 A solid defensive effort and put in one really good left-footed cross in the first half but also was guilty of over-playing a few times. Trai Hume: 8/10 Another really good effort in the centre of defence, battled well all night and his reading of the game stopped the score from being worse. Luke O’Nien: 7/10 Had to fight for every ball all night, a difficult night and a lose ball to Patterson early in the second half put the pressure on and led to the ‘keeper also under hitting his ball. Made a miraculous recovery off the line in the first half. Dan Neil: 6/10 Got outmuscled on occasion but competed well and his passing was fine without ever splitting the home side open. Had a horrendous tackle on him in the first half that could have seen Morris sent off if VAR had been available. Pierre Ekwah: 7/10 Got caught on the ball a couple of times but more than made up for that with a number of interceptions and tackles. Might be inexperienced but didn’t show it on a difficult night. Patrick Roberts: 7/10 Cleared two headers off the line in the space of a minute or two following dangerous set pieces into the box and put everything into tracking back late into injury time as Luton poured forward on the break. Worked hard at right back but that meant he didn’t provide enough attacking threat, particularly in the first half but did have one mazy run that saw him fire wide and a shot from distance late on went comfortably over. Amad Diallo: 6/10 Made some good runs without being able to make something happening at the end of them. Hit one just wide late in the first half and headed over in the second. Unfortunately it just wasn’t his night. Jack Clarke: 6/10 Didn’t look particularly threatening all night, worked really hard and kept at it but without anything coming off for him. Alex Pritchard: 6/10 Didn’t look right, was electric in the first game but looked a little off the pace following his injury and his best moment was a free kick from distance that went wide in the first half. Joe Gelhardt: 6/10 Never stopped running or battling with Lockyer but struggled when actually on the ball, never a threat. Substitute Aji Alese: 6/10 Made a great recovery tackle early after coming on, showing his pace but how we could have done with him earlier on. Edouard Michut: 6/10 Made some runs forward into the box after he came on without being found, one in particular saw Amad play the ball behind him. Buzzed around the pitch and found his team-mates but the Luton midfield outmatched him physically. Niall Huggins: 6/10 Looked lively going forward late on as he was giving give-and-go’s that caused Luton some problems. Abdoullah Ba: 6/10 Looked good on the ball but without ever knowing if he was going to drift past a few players or make the wrong choice and giving the ball away. Man of the Match: Trai Hume Battled well all game, he may have been smaller than a lot of the Luton players but gave as good as he got. Cleared one effort off the line and made a great tackle on the edge of the box when the score could have got worse. A player we can build around at the back. please log in to view this image Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images
He isn't good enough as a 10. Lord prichard would sing him a song before he realised anything was happening. He will go back.
Gave up you listening to them. Worst podcast of the lot. WhatTheFalk best by a mile, with Roker Report a distant second if I'm bored
Exactly. We need all opinions cos otherwise it will be an echo chamber. I’m a feckin season ticket holder starting next season for the first time and I’m very very excited !
Aye let's just ignore everything else he does and the other circumstances he's had to deal with. He's been asked to play a position he's not used to and he's done it at worst mediocre and at best quite well. Terrible? Not even close.
But we arent luton!! Honestly don't know why i bother responding to you. Weve had some decent debates over the last couple yrs but cba with this every time we get beat (especially when we never hear from you when we win). Wish you all the best for the future though but putting you on ignore as cba with this constantly
Well said mate. I'm proud as punch tonight of that team and the manager. What a ****ing ride they have given us this season. Just a game too far with young kids and a threadbare squad. Well done TM for giving us the best football we've seen in years and sticking with it. And well played tonight lads kept going and trying to play football till the end. A lot of ****e being talked tonight. Take a step back and open your eyes there's something bigger going on at this club
Going to argue here. If that penalty is given or the man is sent off for a shocking tackle, do you not think that might have improved our performance?
Probably, but his audition here wasn't a fair one. Leeds will be pissed off at how we've flogged him Pritch can go with him for me.
Don't intend to rake over the sh*t and negativity on here now. Just want to say I'm so proud of our team and staff for the fantastic ride this season.
He has played this position is entire life. ****e. Will go back and we are not interested. Leeds won't be either I am sure.
They'll get crucified by VAR if they go up. You can't bully your way through a season with that picking up on the niggling fouls they were putting in time and again. I hope they don't go up and we get a crack at them with a full strength squad next season.
Only thing I’ll add to this centre back height debate is that our manager is a 6’2 former centre back who knows how to defend against teams like Luton. He made the choices he did based on factors we will never know. I’m not going to second guess him after the season he’s provided us.
Thought you left when it was going **** ? Be a man and say and debate mate. It's what's its about. It's the fun part. Wish you the best but ... Wow what a laugh. Grow one or do one.
I'd never slate a player for coming here and playing in the red and white and having a go. He's young and will learn, but it didn't work for him here. Good luck to him in the future. now I've said that he'll end up at Ipswich and score 25 goals next season.
