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Luton boss Edwards denies overconfidence issue for Sheffield Utd defeat

Luton Town manager Rob Edwards didn't think his side struggled against Sheffield United on Saturday.

The Premier League newcomers were the favorites for the first time in a match this season.

However, they went down 3-1 at home to fellow strugglers Sheffield United, who are bottom.

Asked if his players were overconfident pre-game, Edwards said: “I don't think so, I'd like to think not as I want us to get to the point where we are favorites more often.

"We know in this league we're not going to be very often in games, today we were and I understand it, but I don't think the performance showed a team that was not comfortable with that. We did dominate massive spells of the game, but I'm going to take the penalties out and say it was a 2-0 loss. We got punished with two mistakes and at this level you can't. We made a couple of errors, but I'm not going to single anyone out.

"I don't think that had a bearing on the game, we just couldn't quite find enough quality in that final bit when we got behind them, or to get behind them, to cause them enough problems, because we had enough of the ball to do it. So I don't think it's that, but we haven't had that tag for a long, long time now apart from one or two cup games."

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