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Luton fans make their feelings known booing players off the pitch after defeat to Millwall

Luton Town fans make their feelings known booing players off the pitch after a 1-0 defeat to Millwall on Saturday afternoon.

Mihailo Ivanovic’s stunner on 61 minutes saw Millwall put more pressure on struggling Luton, with a first away win since October 2024.

The Hatters’ defeat means they’re three points adrift, 26 points after 29 games, and still looking for a first win under Matt Bloomfield. Alex Neil’s Millwall meanwhile are up to 16th in the Championship with 34 points from 28 games played.

Luton manager Matt Bloomfield told BBC Radio Three Counties:

“That wasn’t as good as the first two performances we’ve seen this week – they were very good in different elements, but we only picked up one point and it could have been more.

“Today, that wasn’t us. We were leggy and didn’t have the same energy and intensity about us, but a lot of the players who have gone again today are not used to three-game weeks.

“We made four changes and maybe could have done more to get the energy on the pitch.

“We’re disappointed. We had some big chances and it was scrappy but, unfortunately for us, the one quality moment was the one Millwall came up with.”

Matt Bloomfield, per Sky Sports: “I thought we did some good stuff in the first two games this week but the third one wasn’t the level that we needed.

“We looked a bit leggy at times, didn’t have the same energy, zip and intensity about us.

“I think a few of the boys were playing their third game in a week for quite a while, maybe that showed.

“We made four changes, possibly in hindsight we could have made a few more, but we didn’t have the energy that we needed.

“It was a stop-start game, it wasn’t a huge footballing spectacle I don’t think, it was a game of set-pieces and we didn’t quite come out with enough second balls and start to build momentum and keep the ball on the pitch.

“It was too stop-start and ended up being a scrappy affair and it was always probably going to be one goal that made the difference.”

Millwall boss Alex Neil, per Sky Sports: “I thought we played some really good football at times. Naturally it’s going to be a bit scrappy, obviously coming to Kenilworth Road is always difficult, but I thought the players were sensational, the performances across the pitch were excellent.

“We lost our goalkeeper, lost our left winger, we’re already light in numbers, so for the lads to do what they did today speaks volumes of the character and togetherness of the squad.

“The performance itself, the victory, the manner of how we did it, we had to dig in, you’ve got to make sure you win the battles and we did that.

“I think strikers feed off confidence and chances. He’s (Ivanovic) not started loads of games this season, he’s been much more prominent recently.

“He’s scored a few goals, scored in the cup, missed a few chances in the cup, scored a great goal today, had another great chance later on, so as a centre forward you can’t ask for much more than that.

“It’s a tough gig here, he had to lead the line, battle with two centre backs but when that chance presents itself that’s what you’re here to do and his quality was brilliant.”

Alex Neil told BBC Radio London:

“The result was the most important thing. But the manner in which we did it was even more important to me.

“It wasn’t a smash-and-grab, and it wasn’t a case of us not deserving it. We thoroughly deserved it when you think of the chances in the game.

“Everyone knows we’re light [on players] at the moment so to put in the performance we did, having missed a penalty and conceded a 97th-minute equaliser in the last game, that’s a lot of things going against you and it shows the lads’ hunger and determination to succeed.

“We don’t know how Lukas (Jensen) is going to be. Calum’s (Scanlon) is a bad one at the moment – I think it’s a hamstring so we’ll get that scanned.”

Twitter users gave their reaction as Luton fans make their feelings known booing players off the pitch after defeat to Millwall…

@danielchapman86: Robbing a living some of them

@0190dw: They deserved all they got. Absolute embarrassment

@nickthehatter: Glad my car needed to go in the garage. Saved me a 450 mile round trip and £100. But I’m still stupid enough to go to sunderland away 🤪🤪

@JohnCawdell: Unfortunately well deserved

@GavinSowden1: Time to protest against the board and GS, gone on too long. Block the entrance to car park after the next home game

@Chongaldinho: Can’t actually believe people are clapping 🤦🏻‍♂️ and I find the players clapping the support incredibly patronising too. Fucking perform and then you can clap back

@allenLTFCbrooke: get them all to publicly apologise. joke

@Michael57815671: Fair play i hope Bloomfield goes in and tells them the boos are for the them and not him lol

@BAFCmack: why on earth would you leave a promotion chasing wycombe to a relegation threatened luton, most definitely money will be the key reason because other than that wycombe may have their replacement, bloomfield back 😂

@TParton8: That looks like a relegation team with sarcastic claps or just walking off the team not even gonna try now because of what the board have done

@jameshannan_: Still some complete morons clapping 😂😂😂😂😂

@rossi_hatter: The players couldn’t give one single fuck. State of this club @LutonTown

@JoshPea2022: Grass isn’t always greener is it Bloomfield

@AndrewT42692581: Not something I say lightly. But there’s a lot of those players that I would be happy if they never put on a Luton shirt again. How many looked bothered that they were losing in injury time? No desire or passion.

@Daveachino: I mean 41 losses in a season and a half takes its toll.

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