windybottom
Youth Team
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We did give you a football lesson this time round, don't know what has happened to them this season as it is the same team that could not string two wins in a row last term. gower was your man of the match he never gave up and looked pretty good. wish you well for the season hope you go up.
here is the report from our site.
Mike Newell was forced to make one change from the side which has won the Hatters' last two games at home to Wrexham and Bradford City. Charlton Athletic wouldn't give permission for loan goalkeeper Simon Royce to feature and so Slovenian Dino Seremet made his return to the Luton starting eleven.
Luton started brightly and took the lead after just eleven minutes. Ahmet Brkovic's shot from Paul Underwood's deflected cross was blocked and the rebound looped up across goal. Steve Howard came in at the far post to sidefoot the ball home. Southend keeper Bart Griemink got a hand to it but couldn't keeper it out.
Just three minutes later and Steve Howard made it 2-0 with his tenth goal of the season and an excellent finish. Stephen O'Leary found Rowan Vine and he squared for Howard to fire the ball past Bart Griemink from 14 yards out.
Just after the half hour mark and the Hatters were 3-0 up. Rowan Vine played through Ahmet Brkovic and the Croatian danced around the Southend keeper before taking his time to coolly slot the ball into the back of the net.
In the 53rd minute, Ahmet Brkovic came close to netting a second. His looping header from Paul Underwood's cross went just wide.
Dino Seremet got more confident as the match went on and made some excellent stops from the likes of Freddy Eastwood and Mark Gower. Seremet did still look slightly uncomfortable with crosses. In the 64th minute, the Slovenian dropped Lewis Hunt's corner and Chris Coyne had to be on his feet to clear an Adam Barrett effort off the line.
Southend came into the game more as Luton eased off with the game already won. Mark Gower fired just wide in the 75th minute and then Adam Barnett put a header straight at Dino Seremet with eight minutes left on the clock. The Hatters held on for a clean sheet.
Luton boss Mike Newell told LutonTown.co.uk after, "We are pleased to get through. It was a professional performance, we competed in the first half and we got the goals then in the second half we defended well when we had to."
"We won the first ball all over the pitch in the first half. Southend is not an easy place to come, they had won six games on the bounce in the league and it was a good result. It would have asked a lot of them to perform in the second half, as they had done in the first but they did well overall.
"People will have seen from our first half performance why we are where we are in the league and you could not fault anyone, they had won the game by half-time."
The Second Round Draw tales place live on BBC ONE on Sunday at around 4pm after their live game. Luton Town are ball number seven in the draw. Newell added, "Ideally we would like a home tie in the next round but we are pleased just to be there."
here is the report from our site.
Mike Newell was forced to make one change from the side which has won the Hatters' last two games at home to Wrexham and Bradford City. Charlton Athletic wouldn't give permission for loan goalkeeper Simon Royce to feature and so Slovenian Dino Seremet made his return to the Luton starting eleven.
Luton started brightly and took the lead after just eleven minutes. Ahmet Brkovic's shot from Paul Underwood's deflected cross was blocked and the rebound looped up across goal. Steve Howard came in at the far post to sidefoot the ball home. Southend keeper Bart Griemink got a hand to it but couldn't keeper it out.
Just three minutes later and Steve Howard made it 2-0 with his tenth goal of the season and an excellent finish. Stephen O'Leary found Rowan Vine and he squared for Howard to fire the ball past Bart Griemink from 14 yards out.
Just after the half hour mark and the Hatters were 3-0 up. Rowan Vine played through Ahmet Brkovic and the Croatian danced around the Southend keeper before taking his time to coolly slot the ball into the back of the net.
In the 53rd minute, Ahmet Brkovic came close to netting a second. His looping header from Paul Underwood's cross went just wide.
Dino Seremet got more confident as the match went on and made some excellent stops from the likes of Freddy Eastwood and Mark Gower. Seremet did still look slightly uncomfortable with crosses. In the 64th minute, the Slovenian dropped Lewis Hunt's corner and Chris Coyne had to be on his feet to clear an Adam Barrett effort off the line.
Southend came into the game more as Luton eased off with the game already won. Mark Gower fired just wide in the 75th minute and then Adam Barnett put a header straight at Dino Seremet with eight minutes left on the clock. The Hatters held on for a clean sheet.
Luton boss Mike Newell told LutonTown.co.uk after, "We are pleased to get through. It was a professional performance, we competed in the first half and we got the goals then in the second half we defended well when we had to."
"We won the first ball all over the pitch in the first half. Southend is not an easy place to come, they had won six games on the bounce in the league and it was a good result. It would have asked a lot of them to perform in the second half, as they had done in the first but they did well overall.
"People will have seen from our first half performance why we are where we are in the league and you could not fault anyone, they had won the game by half-time."
The Second Round Draw tales place live on BBC ONE on Sunday at around 4pm after their live game. Luton Town are ball number seven in the draw. Newell added, "Ideally we would like a home tie in the next round but we are pleased just to be there."