Hayrettin blasts Town’s ‘fundamental’ defensive errors

Olly Lee can't believe Luton have conceded again

Hatters first team coach Hakan Hayrettin blasted his side’s fundamental errors made defensively after the 4-3 defeat against Northampton Town yesterday.

Luton were cut to ribbons at the back by an impressive Cobblers side, particularly in the first half, as they conceded three times to trail 3-1 by the break.

Although Hatters improved slightly in the second period, drawing level at 3-3, sub Ricky Holmes then ran unchallenged from the halfway line before shooting past Mark Tyler to win it for Northampton.

Hayrettin said: “When you go 1-0 up at home you expect to win, when you score three goals at home you expect to win.

“I think our second half performance was decent, but we can’t concede the goals we conceded the way we have been and expect to get back in the game.

“Our defending wasn’t good enough, the gaffer knows that, we’ve got to get back to work and try and rectify that.

“But the goals we’re conceding are so sloppy and unlike a John Still team that I know, or any team really. You cannot defend like that and expect to go and win the game.

“We’ve given it a go second half but it just wasn’t to be. The players don’t want to go out and make fundamental mistakes.

“As a player or as a group of players, we know that we need to do better at certain areas, especially the back.

“It’s not good enough, the defender’s need to work hard, the people in front of them need to work harder, we need to be a bit tighter.

“We need to go back to when we played Barnet here, they didn’t get a shot on the goal. And then for whatever reason it’s gone on to the little run that we’ve got where we cannot just keep a clean sheet.