Luton boss Edwards: I thought it'd be our day after Nunez howler

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6 Nov 2023 • 3:53 PM MYT
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Luton Town boss Rob Edwards admits he couldn't celebrate Tahith Chong's opener in yesterday's 1-1 draw with Liverpool.

Edwards was delighted with the manner of the goal, but was concerned about VAR intervening.

He said, I was very excited, but there's two reasons why I didn't over celebrate and leg it down the whole touchline.

One was VAR, I was thinking, is there going to be some kind of check going on? Which there was.

"And then there's still probably enough time for Liverpool to get about four goals, so I thought I don't want to over celebrate, just try and concentrate.

It was a great feeling, it was a brilliant goal, those are moments that we're going to get against teams like that, the counter-attacking moments.

We're not going to get loads of control in their final third, so it was really good that the players were clinical, it was something we've been talking about for the last few weeks."

Edwards says he thought it was their day after Darwin Nunez missed a sitter on 70 minutes.

You maybe start thinking, is this going to be our day now?

Then you get a counter-attacking moment and one-nil up, but if I'm being really honest they deserved something because of the chances that they had.

It wasn't like it was chance after chance after chance, I didn't feel like we were under immense pressure when we were back in our shape, but you know they've got the quality to break us down.

They did find a way, but when they missed their chance I did think, it could be our day this."