Well, it is another frustrating loss at home, and we are now at five games without a single point.
With our manager sacked on the same day, Andy Dawson (our old defender) was left in charge and the team he started with had three changes from our away defeat. Seri, Vale and Figueiredo were replaced by Woods, Longman and Jones.
The sacking of our manager, this early, was wrong and especially discharging him on the day we have a match. This would have had an effect on the team and, as it was last minute, Dawson was put under a lot of pressure because he had no time to prepare, and he appeared to have no clue about what he was doing. At least we should have given Arveladze until the World Cup break to turn things around.
The team offered no threat in this game and a lot of our players were lazy, especially our most experienced player Ozan Tufan. I have started to go off him these past few games as he is the one that always gets the ball taken off him and he makes too many passes around the edge of the box. As I have said many times I despise when players do this, at least try and shoot or get the ball into the box rather than around it. A lot of our players get scared too when the ball gets passed to them and end up passing the ball to the opposition.
Our defence is a major issue and if that is not sorted then there is no way we are getting anywhere near top six, I like being optimistic but with the way our defence is we have no chance. We are, again, too open and we never mark players. We tended to have our players focussing on one side of the pitch which allows a lot of space, on the other side, for the Luton attackers to run into. Some defenders were great in this game particularly Alfie Jones who, even though he scored an own goal, was good at making tackles and getting back to help.
Switch of play is another crisis area for Hull, we can never pass to the other side of the pitch, where all the open players are. If we did this, then we would have more chances for crossing and hopefully the ball would land to a Hull player in a great position to stick it in the back of the net.
We do have a couple of positives to take away from this game and they were the first appearance for our new signing Sinik, who played superbly, and we actually created a few chances and hit the crossbar.
Luton ended up scoring two goals in the first half and we won on possession. We started to switch on towards the end, but we had nothing left in us and it ended 0-2 to the visitors.
Our next game is Wigan at home and hopefully Dawson can sort it out or preferably we have a new manager by then.