Jones left feeling 'deflated' after witnessing a 'calamity' of a defensive performance from Luton

Hatters boss Nathan Jones bellows out his instructions on the sidelines

Town manager felt his side should have done much better with Sorba Thomas’s set-pieces

Luton boss Nathan Jones was left feeling ‘deflated’ after witnessing a defensive performance he described as a ‘calamity’ during last night’s 3-3 draw against Huddersfield Town.

With Town dominating the game in terms of stats, having 24 shots and 10 on target, the visitors managed a mere three on target themselves, although that was boosted to five if you include the two own goals that Luton actually scored, then the Hatters should really have been walking off the pitch having secured a third successive victory.

That they weren't was down to the fact they couldn’t deal with Sorba Thomas’s set-plays, Carlton Morris and Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu both heading past their own keeper Ethan Horvath, while Dan Potts was deemed to have handled Michal Helik’s header from another corner, conceding a spot-kick that Jordan Rhodes converted.

Speaking afterwards, Jones, who has seen the Terriers become something of a bogey side now, Luton not winning in their last six meetings, including being beaten 2-1 on aggregate in the Championship play-offs last season, said: “I feel deflated now, but I shouldn’t be as 95 per cent of our performance was magnificent, apart from three set-plays.

“We’ve been dominant, but we were dominant in the semi-final up there and we conceded from a set-play, conceded from a set-play, and it’s not like this unbelievable delivery that’s undefendable, it’s not that.

“He has got great delivery but it’s not that.

“We put as good delivery in, but they did their job better on set-plays than we did.