Brian Barry-Murphy
“We're over the moon with the performance. I thought we started the game with great intensity, created great chances and scored enough goals to win the game. Against a team of this calibre, we knew we had to be at our best, and, really pleasingly for us, we were.
“David [Turnbull] had a brilliant game. He had a really good game against Bradford and then was sick for the Barnsley game, so he had to wait to get back in due to the form of Alex [Robertson], Ryan [Wintle] and Joel [Colwill]. I suppose it’s an important sign of our squad that he’s ready when he comes back in to produce a performance as he did.
“Perry [Ng] is capable of producing a finish as he did, so I’m told from previous seasons, and I was glad to see it myself. I just have to confess that live, I was saying to pass to Ollie Tanner, but luckily, he listened to the supporters and shot.”
On Joel Colwill
“His game is improving so much. He has such a hunger to improve in the parts of his game that we feel are important to give him the outcomes that he got today.
“He’s a player who arrives in the box all the time, and really, because of that, he has to have the ability to find the correct decision; when to pass and to shoot, and when he does both, the technical ability to make it happen, and today he did.
“I consider myself very lucky to be working with a dressing room that’s so keen to improve," said Brian. "I don’t want to sound boring, but what we see within it is so much potential to improve.
“There were parts of the second half that wouldn’t have been as we wanted, but what’s more than that, daily, the players who come in every single day. The training is of such a high standard because of the hunger there to improve and how much they have to improve to play.
“So that competition within the squad is the key element of how we work, and that has to remain for us to take the squad where we want to go.
“We have a pretty clear identity as a Club now, and all the players have bought into that. We’re pretty confident that if we work the way we work and improve the way we improve, the goals will come, but it’s obviously nice to see it come to fruition, rather than just talking about it because then it gives the players something they can really feel and believe in.”
Luton boss Jack Wilshere
Wilshire thought Joel Bagan's challenge that won his side a penalty should have been more than just a yellow card.
“The ref said to me that, the rules changed. That’s subjective in my opinion, because I’ve been a player in in certain moments where you know that you can’t get the ball and you just try and make a foul. So yeah, frustrated. But we still have to do more.
“We have to have more belief,” he told the BBC. “We spoke about that before the game, about courage. Courage shows up in different ways and I don’t think there was probably enough collective courage to try and do the things we spoke about. And then we gave goals away which which at any level is difficult to come back from.
“Clearly there’s there’s an issue away from home which I have to find the answer to,” said Wilshere. “We have to look within ourselves, within the dressing room and find out what it is, because we were coming here full of confidence.
“Away from home, we have to cut out there moments where we don’t recognise the importance of keeping the ball, the importance when you do regain it, of maybe just having a spell, especially against teams like this, to take the sting out of the game to kill their momentum a little bit,” he said. “We’ve done that a lot to teams this season where we’ve recognised their moments, but away from home, we can’t do it at the moment.”
Despite not conceding more goals in the second half in south Wales, the Hatters barely laid a glove on Cardiff.
Wilshere said: “They were obviously trying to hold on to something and we didn’t have enough threat. We didn’t have enough shots. We didn’t have enough moments where we just put the ball into an area. And when we did, we didn’t really look like we were going to score. So, yeah, tough day.”
