Rob Edwards, the manager of Luton Town, claims that his team is “down to its bare bones” in preparation for Liverpool’s visit to Kenilworth Road on Sunday.
The freshly promoted team, currently 18th in the Premier League, has only triumphed once since gaining promotion—a 2-1 victory over Everton in late September. throughout a pre-match press conference, Edwards expressed his opinion that he will not wallow in the Luton team’s chronic injury issue, stating that injuries are ‘inevitable’ throughout a league season.
He said (quotes via Luton Today: “There’s not anyone coming back unfortunately, so we are where we were, but the guys are making good progress, just not quite ready to make an impact. So a little bit down to the bare bones, but there’s quite a lot of teams in this kind of position at the moment. It is difficult but you won’t hear me moaning or complaining about it.
“It gives other people opportunities and we’ve got to make sure that we’re working in the best way we can. We trust the group, we trust the squad. In team sports, it’s inevitable you will get injuries and that’s when we need the whole group.
“We’ve got a really good youth team we’re working with and some really good young players who are getting some good experience as well, helping us in training, available to be on the bench. So that’s just where it’s at at the moment, but I don’t think we’re the only club in that sort of situation.”
Amari’i Bell, Reece Burke, Mads Andersen, Dan Potts, Jordan Clark, Luke Berry, and Arsenal loanee Albert Sambi Lokonga are the seven crucial players Luton will be without against the Reds. Conversely, Liverpool will be without Thiago Alcantara, Stefan Bajcetic, and Andy Robertson, and Luis Diaz and Curtis Jones’s involvement is uncertain.