Match Report
1 points and 2 places separated them: Luton Town 22nd with 49, Preston North End 20th with 50. On the form table Luton Town stood 5th over the last five rounds, despite being 22nd overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Luton Town 0.98 scored and 1.5 conceded per game, Preston North End 1.04 and 1.28, with the league averaging 1.23.
Defeat had followed defeat for Luton Town — five in succession. Over the last five, Luton Town had taken 0 of 15 points to Preston North End's 10.
GioScore's database holds 9 meetings between the two: 3 for Luton Town, 4 for Preston North End and 2 drawn, at 2.11 goals per meeting. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 33% of the meetings went over two goals.
The match was played at Kenilworth Road Stadium in Luton (capacity 11,200). It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.