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Luton players held crunch meeting ahead of defeating Bournemouth

Luton boss Rob Edwards revealed that his players had a meeting before their win over Bournemouth.

Edwards was full of praise for his side, who are valiantly battling against relegation.

The success against Andoni Iraola's team proved to Edwards that his players have plenty of fight left in them.

Edwards said: “We've actually cranked the pressure up ourselves rather than what might be external, or whatever externally.

"You guys would probably say today was really important to win, but we put that on internally as well and the lad demanded that of themselves. They had a meeting on Thursday that Carlton [Morris] led, as captain, that they wanted to do, to talk about the importance of this run-in not just today, but the rest of the games as well.

"They don't want to give this up, we love it here and it's been tough, an amazing challenge, but we don't want to go back. We're certainly not going to go down without a fight and I think today typifies us. It's not the first time they've done it, sometimes it happens when there's a crisis, but there's no crisis because we've been performing well, it's just hard for us to get points in this league.

"So it was one where it was just demanding more, anything you can do on or off the pitch at the moment the whole focus just needs to be on getting the points required. No-one knows what that's going to be but if we don't win games of football then we've got no chance. We found a way and I think deservedly so. Yes they had moments, but second half performance, the shots we had, the pressure we had, where the game was played, we deserved to win."

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