Luton boss Edwards on Man City thrashing: Let's be realistic

Luton boss Rob Edwards says they must quickly move on from their defeat at Manchester City.

The Hatters were hammered 5-1 on the day.

Edwards said: Today was always going to be very difficult. Without sounding very defeatist, I'd almost made peace with it at the beginning. We wanted a good performance, we wanted to try and come out with some belief and confidence for the final five games.

"I know the scoreline suggests that they were the dominant team, of course they were, they were better, they thoroughly deserved it, they were amazing, but we stayed in the game as long as we could. We knew we were going to be forced low, we wanted to try and be aggressive and even in the first minute we tried, then Haaland's through one-on-one, the ball almost knocks Hashi out for the first goal, and we're thinking, wow, there's one of our few defenders on the floor knocked out and we're one down after a minute, what a start that is.

"It's tough, but Hashi managed to battle on and I'm proud of the lads, they gave us everything. Today was never going to knock us or derail us, anything like that. I wiped it as soon as I walked into the changing room after the players. They're disappointed, of course, no-one likes losing, no-one likes losing five-one, but let's be realistic."