Luton Town boss Rob Edwards has revealed the extent of his team’s injury crisis ahead of Saturday’s game against Tottenham.
The Hatters are battling relegation as they sit one point clear of the bottom three. Luton also have 10 first-team players injured, with one of his coaches also out this week. Chiedozie Ogbene is the newest name on the injury list and won’t be making the trip to north London.
Edwards said: “It got so bad earlier in the week that Kev Foley had to train in the opposition and he tweaked a hamstring as well, so I’m losing staff as well as players now!”
Edwards has also told his team to focus on their own games in the fight to stay in the top flight. Nottingham Forest have appealed their four point deduction for breaching the Premier League’s Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) and Everton might lose more points even after some were taken back.
Hatters winger Andros Townsend this week labelled the situation “nonsense” and a “mockery”. But Edwards, said: “It’s not something we think about. He knows everyone is talking about it, even people who don’t watch football much.
“We can only control what we can and that is trying to get as many points as possible and if we don’t it doesn’t really matter what goes on—point deductions and appeals being successful or not.
“It’s a really strange situation and it’s difficult to talk about because it’s not happening directly to us but we are obviously involved in it. The right thing to do is just control us, work as hard as we can, and try and get the points required. We won’t really know how many points it is going to take. We have to finish above them and that’s it and that’s all we can try and do.”
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