Luton take the points after win over Peterborough

Luton Town made it three wins out of four as they squeezed out Peterborough United to take a 2-1 win at Kenilworth Road.

Jake Richards and Jordan Clark scored the goals to take the points for Jack Wilshere’s outfit, who resisted a late Posh fightback when Jimmy Jay-Morgan scored a goal back for the visitors.

Victory meant that Luton have now gone on a run of 5 matches unbeaten and kept alive their hopes of a play-off push. The Hatters sit 11th but are 4 points from the top 6 with 6 games of the season to play, having played a game less than 6th placed Reading.

A busy opening phase saw both sides come close, with Luton’s Emilio Lawrence curling a shot wide before Jay-Morgan was inaccurate from a good position for the visitors.

Luton would score the day’s opening goal after 20 minutes. A long ball forward by Kal Naismith wound up releasing Richards, who was able to dink the ball beyond Alex Bass in the Peterborough goal.

Richards then had a shot blocked in the box, with Peterborough’s Archie Collins unable to put a strike on target when well placed.

A big incident then came when Peterborough were awarded a penalty just after the half-hour mark. Harry Leonard’s effort was cleared off the line by Hakeem Odoffin, but the referee deemed Josh Keeley fouled Leonard as the Peterborough man was shaping up to shoot and awarded the penalty.

As it was, Keeley then saved Leonard’s penalty to preserve Luton’s scoreboard advantage.

Luton grabbed their second goal in the opening five minutes of the second half, with Clark on hand to meet Lawrence’s cross and beat Bass.

The Hatters could’ve made it 3-0, only for Davy van den Berg to get his shot all wrong when well placed at the end of a fine move.

With quarter of an hour remaining, Morgan would reduce the deficit to one goal as he turned in from Kyrell Lisbie’s cross.

But the Hatters kept Peterborough at arms length, and while a penalty appeal for a challenge on Kasey Palmer was rejected, Luton still got the job done to see off Posh and take the points.

Luton will now turn their attention to back-to-back trips to London, facing AFC Wimbledon away in the second part of the Easter double header in the reverse of the season’s opening game before playing Stockport next weekend in the EFL Trophy final at Wembley.