(Football news) The Hatters were defeated 2-1 by Burnley in midweek, while Spurs defeated Liverpool by the same score owing to a VAR gaffe that has already become well-known.
Rob Edwards’s Luton Town had a rough welcome back to Kenilworth Road from a Clarets team also chasing their first success of the top-flight season. Burnley, who had their match against Luton Town postponed, entered it on cloud nine after winning their first-ever Premier League maximum away to Everton at the weekend.
Elijah Adebayo appeared to have done enough to secure a point for the Hatters against their fellow newly promoted opponents, but Burnley restored their slim advantage just 65 seconds later through Jacob Bruun Larsen. Lyle Foster’s goal on the verge of halftime gave Vincent Kompany’s team the lead.
The 2010-11 Blackpool crop were the most recent victims of this streak, and Luton are now the first team in 13 years to fail to win any of their opening three Premier League home games. However, an especially upbeat Edwards did not have a bad word to say about his side’s valiant second-half performance.
Despite only collecting one of the nine points available at Kenilworth Road thus far this season, Luton is hanging onto 17th place thanks to their superior goal differential over 18th-place Burnley, and Hatters supporters would undoubtedly accept such a position come May’s curtain call.
The hosts have gone nine games in all competitions without recording a clean sheet this year, and a recent defensive injury blow does not give them any comfort before hosting a Tottenham team whose hot streak of two goals under Ange Postecoglou was extended in the most contentious of situations.
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