‘Attacking’ Bloomfield on what he will change at Luton as new boss vows to make Town ‘exciting’ to watch.
Hatters chief targets work without the ball as key for his new side
New Luton manager Matt Bloomfield has highlighted what he feels needs to be done to help the Hatters arrest their worrying slump of form and begin to achieve his immediate aim of securing their Championship status for another season.
The 40-year-old opted to swap a promotion battle with League One Wycombe Wanderers for the challenge of keeping Town in the second tier this week, as he replaced Rob Edwards at the helm, with his first match just a day away now when Preston North visit Kenilworth Road tomorrow afternoon. With Luton having lost their last four games in a row, and possessing the joint second worst defensive record in the division, shopping an alarming 44 goals from their 26 games, the stats don’t get much better at the other end, with just 27 going into the opposition’s net, putting them as the sixth lowest scorers too.
It all means Bloomfield has his work cut out to turn things around having had less than a week’s training with his players, but going into more detail on what he will address and having looked at just why he feels the Hatters are in the position they are in, he said: “First and foremost we need to do some work on the out of possession shape. Our identity that we’ve been playing with at Wycombe this year is slightly different and the boys have had an incredible success going up to the Premier League, being out of possession the way they have been, but we want to do it slightly differently.
“So we’re just trying to imprint that with the boys, trying to create some more chances. It’s not rocket science, we want to try and create some more chances and try and tighten up a little bit. I’m really respectful of the job that Rob has done here previously. I think he’s an incredible man, a fantastic manager, got a really good group together, there’s been a lot going on at the football club on and off the pitch in terms of the emotional toll that that’s taken on the group and for Rob, and I’m really hoping that we can bring some fresh energy and I’m really looking forward to do a good job here.”
