Luton Town 2-1 Huddersfield Town: result and report
Championship · Saturday 31 August 2019
Result
Luton Town 2-1 Huddersfield Town
Championship · Saturday 31 August 2019, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Luton Town 2-1 Huddersfield Town: match report
Luton Town defeated Huddersfield Town 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 31 August 2019. The half-time score was 0-0.
Karlan Grant opened the scoring in the 47th minute. Luton Town's goals came from James Collins (57', penalty) and Andrew Shinnie (66'). Huddersfield Town scored through Karlan Grant (47').
Discipline: Luton Town received 2 yellow cards; Huddersfield Town received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Luton Town were 18th on 4 points from 5 and Huddersfield Town 23rd on 1 point from 5. Luton Town went on to finish that season 20th with 51 points, and Huddersfield Town 19th with 51.
Luton Town lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Huddersfield Town in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Andrew Shinnie of Luton Town (8.8), ahead of James Collins (7.8).
Going into the match Luton Town's last five read W-L-L-L-D and Huddersfield Town's L-L-L-D-L.
Key events
- 47'Goal · Karlan Grant
- 57'Penalty goal · James Collins
- 66'Goal · Andrew Shinnie
- 82'Yellow card · T. Chalobah
- 84'Yellow card · Isaiah Brown
- 88'Yellow card · James Collins
- 88'Yellow card · Adama Diakhaby
Team news
Luton Town line-up (4-3-1-2)
Simon Sluga, Sonny Bradley, Matty Pearson, Luke Bolton, James Bree, Ryan Tunnicliffe, Andrew Shinnie, James Collins, Jacob Butterfield, Harry Cornick, Kazenga LuaLua
Huddersfield Town line-up (4-2-3-1)
Kamil Grabara, Terence Kongolo, Christopher Schindler, Jaden Brown, Florent Hadergjonaj, Jonathan Hogg, Trevoh Chalobah, Adama Diakhaby, Karlan Grant, Rajiv van La Parra, Fraizer Campbell