On Saturday Manchester City will host a team that, despite relatively meagre resources and a long injury list, could yet play their way to survival among England’s elite
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The Hatters’ first goal that day came from Tom Lockyer, their captain. Lockyer had also scored the winning goal in the play-off semi-final against Sunderland that got the Hatters to Wembley. A clever, ball-playing centre-half, Lockyer gave his side aggression, wit and passing rhythm. Now he gave them belief the season might be more than a visitor experience.
They took the lead against City, though, through Elijah Adebayo. While Bernardo Silva and Jack Grealish won the game for City, Luton had scored against Pep Guardiola’s Treble winners. As perceptions of the club changed, Brighton were beaten 4-0 – with an Adebayo hat-trick – and though it has been hard since, one win in 11 plus a 6-2 home defeat by City in the FA Cup, when Erling Haaland scored five, Luton go to City as Premier League competitors. The odds say otherwise – they’re 30/1 to win – but having scored in both games against City so far, they know they can at least do that.
It is unwise to downplay their achievement, but Leicester had players of the experience of Kasper Schmeichel, Wes Morgan and Robert Huth, signings of the calibre of N’Golo Kanté and Riyad Mahrez and a striker in Jamie Vardy who scored 24 goals in 36 games. And crucially they all stayed fit. Rodri said this – understandably – after City’s 3-3 epic at Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday night; it’s a long, long way from Kenilworth Road.
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