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Luton Town 5 - 0 Coventry City

Postby dutchman » Wed Sep 29, 2021 10:10 pm

Sky Blues humiliated in five-goal rout

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Coventry City’s incredible start to the season came crashing to a halt when they were humiliated by a rampant Luton Town.

The Hatters raced into an early lead, scoring a third minute penalty before the Sky Blues collapsed with three more goals before the break.

Elijah Adebayo got the ball rolling from the spot before Harry Cornick and Luke Berry added a second and third before the half hour mark.

And Adebayo fired home a second deep in first half stoppage time to make it 4-0, and things didn’t improve after the break when the outstanding Cornick made it 5-0 before the hour.

City made a disastrous start to the game when Jake Clarke-Salter allowed Adebayo to cut inside him in the box with barely a minute and 30 seconds gone before going to ground and the referee, Stephen Martin, pointing straight to the spot.

The Luton striker then thumped the ball home, beating Simon Moore with sheer power as the City keeper dived the right way.

The home side started at a high tempo, clearly intent on getting at the Sky Blues early, and their intensity paid off with two corners adding more pressure in the opening 15 minutes at Kenilworth Road.

Harry Cornick then doubled the lead when a looped up ball over the top was flicked on in the box to the lively forward who was well placed to head home from close range with 18 minutes on the clock.

The move started from a free-kick to the left of goal, conceded by Gus Hamer who picked up his fifth booking of the season, meaning he misses Saturday’s big home game with Fulham.

The match was then delayed for around seven minutes when a City fan collapsed in the away end of the ground. Paramedics attended to the casualty who was stretchered away.

Shortly after the game resumed, shell-shocked City found themselves 3-0 down after a slick Luton move saw Luke Berry slot home with just 29 minutes on the clock.

It was the lively Cornick who was tormentor in chief, getting free at the byline to pull back past Kyle McFadzean for his team-mate to pick his spot past Moore.

City attempted a fight-back with a string of three corners in quick succession but Town held firm, keeping them at arm’s length before adding a fourth before the break.

A swift move down the right saw James Bree race to the byline and pull it back for Cornick to flick up over McFadzean for Adebayo to finish ahead of Dom Hyam to complete an embarrassing half for the Sky Blues.

Things failed to improve in the second half when Luke Berry nicked the ball away from half-time substitute Ben Sheaf, teeing up the unplayable Cornick to pick his spot past Moore to make it 5-0 in the 59th minute.

City went through the motions after that in a clear case of damage limitation, doing their level best to prevent further embarrassment as the 17th placed side went in search of a sixth.

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Re: Luton Town 5 - 0 Coventry City

Postby dutchman » Wed Sep 29, 2021 10:12 pm

Adebayo and Cornick lead Luton rout

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Elijah Adebayo and Harry Cornick both grabbed doubles as Luton Town snapped their six-match winless streak in emphatic style by thrashing Coventry City at Kenilworth Road.

The Hatters raced into a four-goal lead by half-time, with Adebayo netting an early penalty before Cornick made it 2-0 and then set up Luke Berry for the third.

Adebayo's tap-in on the stroke of half-time put the home side out of sight and Cornick hit the fifth with a deflected effort to complete Coventry's humiliation.

The victory - Luton's biggest since their League Two days in 2017 - lifted them to ninth place, while the Sky Blues slipped to fourth.

It took Luton less than two minutes to breach what had previously been the Championship's meanest defence, with Jake Clarke-Salter penalised for holding back Adebayo as he galloped on to James Bree's through ball.

Adebayo fired the spot-kick past Simon Moore and Luton proceeded to pepper the visitors' defence with balls into the penalty area - few of which they dealt with successfully.

Hatters skipper Sonny Bradley, starting his first game of the season after being sidelined by Covid-19, used his aerial presence to set up opportunities for both Cornick and Berry before the second goal arrived in the 18th minute.

A free-kick routine broke down but Coventry were slow to react and Jordan Clark pumped the ball back into the box, with Kal Naismith heading it across for Cornick to nod beyond Moore.

The goal gave way to an eight-minute stoppage while paramedics attended to a Coventry supporter who had been taken ill - but the hiatus did nothing to slow Luton's momentum as Cornick burst between two defenders and cut the ball back for Berry to bundle home.

Luton had surrendered a three-goal lead in their last home game, against Swansea City, but any concerns about a repeat collapse were dispelled in first-half injury time as Bree and Cornick combined again on the right to provide Adebayo with his second.

Home goalkeeper Simon Sluga was belatedly called into action at the start of the second half, pushing away an angled drive from Viktor Gyokeres, but Luton swiftly regained the initiative as Cornick pounced on substitute Ben Sheaf's error to make it 5-0 on the hour.

Adebayo went close with a dipping 25-yarder that Moore fended off, but there was to be no hat-trick as both he and Cornick were withdrawn 20 minutes from time, underlining Luton's total supremacy.

Coventry manager Mark Robins told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire:

"One of our supporters was ill - I've been told thankfully he's OK, so we wish him all the best. On a difficult night for us as a football club, that's probably the best news we've had.

"Sixty seconds into it, we have succumbed to what we knew Luton were going to throw at us. They were very good at what they did and we weren't very good at dealing with it.

"The foul apparently was outside the box, so it shouldn't have been a penalty in the first place. That's disappointing, but I'm not going to bleat too much because there were four others that went in after it.

"We ended up getting ragged trying to chase the game early on - we were four down before we could breathe. We need to park this and move on."

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