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Luton Town
20/04/202414:00
Brentford

Rob Edwards

Manager on Luton Town
Meeting Highlights

...INJURIES

Teden Mengi is the only player who might have a chance to return on Saturday and said on the injury situation. Still that way bare bones of squad. I don't anticipate too many changes but we are making progress. There will be some players coming back but it will be a struggle for this weekend.

...SAFETY

At the beginning, we knew it would come down to the final five games. We are cool about that - we have spoken about that. Manchester City was never going to be defining but the next five will be. We know how important they are. Our aim - we know it will be difficult - is to pick up points in all those games.

...PRESSURE

We knew the fight we would be in so we are OK with it. We wanted to pick up more points of course - every team has said they have left points out there. I have seen a team grow in performance levels and compete with teams all season. Makes me very proud. The players are realistic and know the importance of these games. There is no point hiding from it - we need to make it bring out the best in us.

...OPPONENT

I think we have quite a successful model as well. I would say we have done pretty well. We do what we do - Brentford do what they do. We always get asked, 'could you do like them?', but we have to do what we do and we do it pretty well. Hopefully, in a few years people will be asking can they do like Luton do. That is difficult. We don't have a crystal ball and don't know what everyone is going to do. A lot of us are playing each other over the next few weeks. We know we have to win some football matches. How many that is we don't know.

Thomas Frank

Manager on Brentford
Meeting Highlights

…INJURY REPORT

Defender Kristoffer Ajer and midfielder Christian Norgaard are available for selection after injury, while striker Ivan Toney is also pushing to start after being named on the bench in the past two games. With all of your important players, you're willing to push them hard to play. All of the important players normally are players that have an extraordinary mentality like Ivan. They can push through things.

…ABOUT THE MATCH

It's an important game because it's the next game in line, it's not like a cup final or a play-off final. I can tell you the difference because I've tried it twice - there's a big difference. This is an important Premier League game, like the Sheffield United game was, like the Manchester United game was and like the Brighton one was.

…ROB EDWARDS

He's done a top job together with his coaching staff and the players - very impressive with most likely the lowest budget in the division. They make it difficult in every game for every single opponent. It will be a big battle in every way and at home especially they've been really good.

Rob Edwards

Luton Town

Thomas Frank

Brentford
Meeting Highlights

...INJURIES

Teden Mengi is the only player who might have a chance to return on Saturday and said on the injury situation. Still that way bare bones of squad. I don't anticipate too many changes but we are making progress. There will be some players coming back but it will be a struggle for this weekend.

...SAFETY

At the beginning, we knew it would come down to the final five games. We are cool about that - we have spoken about that. Manchester City was never going to be defining but the next five will be. We know how important they are. Our aim - we know it will be difficult - is to pick up points in all those games.

...PRESSURE

We knew the fight we would be in so we are OK with it. We wanted to pick up more points of course - every team has said they have left points out there. I have seen a team grow in performance levels and compete with teams all season. Makes me very proud. The players are realistic and know the importance of these games. There is no point hiding from it - we need to make it bring out the best in us.

...OPPONENT

I think we have quite a successful model as well. I would say we have done pretty well. We do what we do - Brentford do what they do. We always get asked, 'could you do like them?', but we have to do what we do and we do it pretty well. Hopefully, in a few years people will be asking can they do like Luton do. That is difficult. We don't have a crystal ball and don't know what everyone is going to do. A lot of us are playing each other over the next few weeks. We know we have to win some football matches. How many that is we don't know.