Luton attacker Brown retains a ‘massive belief’ that the Hatters can stay up
The Luton team still has a “massive belief” that they can make it out of the Premier League this year, according to attacker Jacob Brown.
The Hatters have now lost four straight games since starting their top-flight season, making them the only team in the division without a point after their 1-0 loss to Fulham on Saturday.
However, Brown, who has made an impressive impact since arriving from Stoke City in the summer, stated that although others might not, both and his team-mates had full confidence in their ability to pull clear of the relegation zone.
“Like we just stated, I don’t think we could have asked for much more than that, other from the outcome.
“Everything we worked on during the week is finished.
The belief is strong, and we just need to go on to the following week. “If my chance goes in obviously it’s a different scoreline, but yes, the belief is high.
“We may be confident in our development because it is accelerating.
“The first three games before the international break were really tough and obviously it’s a big step from last season, but we’ve been working really hard in training and you can see that in this performance.
“It’s disappointing again, but we are progressing more and more each week and we can take confidence from that.”
The opportunity that Brown, who was making his first league start since arriving at Kenilworth Road, was alluding to was when he was picked out by Issa Kabore’s right wing cross in the first half.
Escaping the Cottagers defence, the unmarked Scottish international could only direct his header against the outside of the post from eight yards, as he continued: “I felt that I picked up a good position.
Brown: “It was a great ball from Issa and I made a good connection, probably too good. “I’ve just seen it come off the post and obviously it’s disappointing, but you’ve just got to move on from it.” Carlton Morris, Amari’i Bell, and Tom Lockyer were also among those to miss good opportunities.
“That’s exactly how we planned the game to and that’s exactly how we did.
“We knew they’d have the ball, especially the centre backs, and we wanted to just counter on that, so when we win it, break, fast and direct.
“I thought we did that and if we took our chances it would have been a different result.”
Brown had earned his place in the starting line-up at Craven Cottage after a string of positive displays from the bench in Town’s top flight encounters, plus scoring the opening goal during Luton’s 3-2 Carabao Cup victory over Gillingham.
Regarding how he thought it went, he stated: “I’m satisfied with it as it was my first league start.
“I would have preferred a better outcome, but once more, we must focus on the positive aspects of each game.
We simply need to focus on what will happen in the upcoming games since we cannot reverse what has already occurred.
“I believed I performed well, but every game is unique.
“We don’t know what’s needed for the next game and even if you have done well, you might not be playing because there are a lot of games coming up and we just need what’s best for the next game.”
With Town at home to Wolves on Saturday, before heading to Everton and then entertaining Burnley, it represents a massive chance for Luton to finally register some points on the board in the top flight.
Brown added: “The main thing in this league is you can’t switch off and those chances you have to take.
“We’re learning, it’s not nice to keep saying this, but we are all confident as a team.
“We are aware of the strong support we have from the public, which is a great push.
“It really helps us, and I think we just need to keep cooperating on and off the field as we move on to the next game.”
We just want to go out there and give it everything we’ve got, score some points, and start a run, regardless of who we’re playing.
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