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Luton Town 5 | |
Wrexham 1 |
Saturday 06 November 2004 @ 15:00
MATCH STATS | |||
Score and Scorers |
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Luton Town | 5 | Wrexham | 1 |
Steve Robinson | 13' | Hector Sam | 73' |
Sol Davies | 17' | ||
Stephen O'Leary | 22' | ||
Steve Howard | 44' | ||
Ahmet Brkovic | 62' |
Starting Line Ups |
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Luton Town | Wrexham | ||
28 | Simon Royce | 13 | Matt Baker |
02 | Kevin Foley | 18 | Shaun Pejic |
12 | Chris Coyne | 04 | Steve Roberts |
20 | Curtis Davies | 06 | Dennis Lawrence |
24 | Sol Davies | 20 | Simon Spender |
06 | Paul Underwood | 16 | Matt Crowell |
11 | Steve Robinson 57' | 10 | Darren Ferguson |
15 | Stephen O'Leary | 03 | Alex Smith 63' |
18 | Ahmet Brkovic | 19 | Andy Holt |
09 | Rowan Vine 81' | 09 | Chris Armstrong 63' |
19 | Steve Howard | 11 | Chris Llewellyn 72' |
Substitutes |
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Luton Town | Wrexham | ||
05 | Russell Perrett | 17 | Mark Jones |
14 | Michael Leary 57' | 21 | Levi Macken 63' |
16 | Enoch Showunmi 81' | 23 | Hector Sam 72' |
21 | Keith keane | 24 | Danny Evans (GK) |
25 | Dino Seremet (GK) | 30 | Juan Ugarte 63' |
Yellow and Red Cards |
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Luton Town | Wrexham | ||
None |
77' |
Hector Sam - Unsporting Behaviour | |
87' |
Juan Ugarte - Unsporting Behaviour |
Stat Attack |
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Luton Town | Wrexham |
13 | Shots on Goal | 14 |
8 | Shots on Target | 4 |
19 | Fouls Committed | 7 |
3 | Corners | 6 |
0 | Yellow Card | 2 |
0 | Red Card | 0 |
Match Notes |
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Venue: | Racecourse Ground | Attendance: | 7,144 |
Referee: | Mike Thorpe - Suffolk | Half Time: | 4-0 Luton |
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MATCH REPORT |
By Alun Thomas 0 –
15 Minutes: Scrappy early exchanges with neither side particularly
impressive. On ten minutes, Llewellyn beat the keeper to long ball, his
cross-cum-shot was cleared off the line and Armstrong somehow shot over from
four yards. Everybody misses ‘em, but frankly a striker of Chris’s
experience and ability should have scored. After thirteen minutes a long
cross from the left found Luton’s Robinson tearing in at the far post ; his
headed goal was a formality. Score 1 - 0. |
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AUDIO REPORTS AND QUOTES |
Match Report with John Hardy of BBC Radio Wales (WindowsMedia Format) |
Listen to Denis Smith speaking to BBC Radio Wales (WindowsMedia Format) |
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PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES |
Denis Smith: "I think that if you come to a club going as well as this, as physical as this, you need your team out and with 12 fit players, I think we are asking a lot for the lads to come down here and get a result. We tried and we had a few chances. We possibly had nearly as many chances as they did but we've got to look at it and we finished with a non-contract player and two YTS lads playing against top of the league. You can't be playing against a team top of the league with that sort of team and expect to win. I think if you look at it, Dennis could have had a hat-trick today but we didn't and physically they are very strong and we missed the physical presence that we have got who are out injured. You've got to accept that you can't come to places like this with trialists and YTS players. We tried to pass it and create some chances but in the end in needed my first team out to give us the opportunity to get a result here. Hopefully when we play them again we will have. At half-time we talked to them and told them that it was important that they didn't get beaten in the second-half, which they achieved. It would have been nice to win the second-half which we almost did. We have to look at this as a one off and that we continue to do the right things. Today though we didn't deal with the ball into the box particularly well, physically, and we didn't track their runs well. We knew we had problems coming into the game, and I'm talking about the injuries, we had to accept that it's going to have an effect. There are not many positives you can take when getting beaten 5-1. We haven't lost for seven games, so to get beaten up as we have today is disappointing. We do have another game on Tuesday but Big Dennis is now carrying an injury so if anybody fancies a game let me know!! It's going to be difficult until the situation changes. I've got long term injuries and until I can possibly bring somebody in, hopefully that will be sooner rather than later, as long as we have a club. I don't worry too much about our season on the pitch, as long as we can get over the next few weeks." [Source: Wrexham AFC] |
Mike Newell: "We are really pleased. The first half performance was very similar to Bradford last week and the goals were the icing on the cake. You need the goals to get the points. Wrexham have a lot of injuries and they are missing key players but you can only beat who you are up against and we have done that in the right manner and by playing decent football. We are disappointed not to have kept a clean sheet and whilst people would have liked to have seen a few more goals it is only natural that you take your foot off the gas at 5-0 up. We have scored plenty of goals at home this season, particularly in the last two games and we want teams to come here fearing us, we want to make it a fortress and give them something to think about. We have shared the goals out in the last eighteen months and I believe that is the sign of a good side. The lads are pleased for Sol Davis, we've been on at him for months to get further forward when the chance is there because we know that full backs can score goals. He has done that today and we hope that there will be more to follow. Now he's broken the ice, perhaps they will flow for him. I was more impressed by his overall play, he is a different player this season and his work rate is excellent. Kevin Foley got some great crosses in from right back, both the full backs can create and he has stuttered a bit this season with his form, he is capable of more but it is nice to see him playing well. Ahmet Brkovic has eight goals now this season, he scored goals during pre-season and for the reserves earlier in the year when he wasn't in the team. It is a great return from right midfield and he also makes his fair share as well. Sometimes he is playing on a different level and he gives us good quality." [Source: Luton Town FC] |
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LEAGUE ONE | ||||
Results |
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Barnsley Conclon 44' (p) |
1-2 |
Port Vale Paynter 65' Williams 69' |
8,462 |
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Bradford City Windass 23' 81' |
2-2 |
Colchester United Johnson 8' 39' |
7,851 |
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Bristol City Lita 4' 25' Brooker 29' Wilkshire 63' |
4-1 |
Milton Keynes Dons Small 52' |
10,717 |
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Chesterfield Folan 90' |
1-0 |
Blackpool |
4,978 |
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Hartlepool United Porter 78' 89' |
2-1 |
Doncaster Rovers Roberts 30' |
5,495 |
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Huddersfield |
v |
Brentford |
15:00 |
SUN |
Hull City Barmby 1' Elliott 34' Lewis 39' |
3-1 |
Walsall Standing 49' |
15,961 |
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Luton Town Robinson 13' Davis 17' O'Leary 22' Howard 44' Brkovic 62' |
5-1 |
Wrexham Sam 73' |
7,144 |
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Peterborough United |
0-1 |
Bournemouth Hayter 4' |
4,004 |
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Stockport County |
0-3 |
Sheffield Wednesday Proudlock 40' McGovern 50' McMahon 88' |
7,222 |
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Torquay United Constantine 9' Gritton 71' |
2-0 |
Oldham Athletic |
3,183 |
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Tranmere Rovers Hall 34' 74' |
2-1 |
Swindon Town Duke 69' |
8,419 |
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Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Luton Town 17 12 2 3 34 18 16 38 2 Tranmere Rovers 16 9 5 2 26 16 10 32 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Hull City 17 10 2 5 28 22 6 32 4 AFC Bournemouth 17 9 3 5 31 21 10 30 5 Bradford City 17 9 2 6 28 25 3 29 6 Brentford 16 8 3 5 20 21 -1 27 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 7 Chesterfield 17 7 5 5 23 17 6 26 8 Hartlepool United 17 8 2 7 26 28 -2 26 9 Swindon Town 17 7 4 6 28 25 3 25 10 Bristol City 16 6 6 4 30 23 7 24 11 Huddersfield Town 16 7 3 6 27 22 5 24 12 Sheffield Wednesday 17 6 6 5 25 23 2 24 13 Port Vale 17 7 2 8 20 24 -4 23 14 Doncaster Rovers 17 6 5 6 21 26 -5 23 15 Colchester United 17 6 4 7 26 22 4 22 16 Wrexham 15 5 6 4 17 21 -4 21 17 Barnsley 17 4 6 7 21 23 -2 18 18 Walsall 17 4 6 7 24 30 -6 18 19 Peterborough United 17 4 5 8 19 19 0 17 20 Oldham Athletic 17 4 4 9 21 27 -6 16 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 21 Blackpool 16 3 6 7 19 24 -5 15 22 Torquay United 16 3 6 7 20 27 -7 15 23 Milton Keynes Dons 17 3 5 9 20 31 -11 14 24 Stockport County 17 2 4 11 16 35 -19 10 |
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