Fleetwood vs Luton preview
Thursday 14 February 2019 16:17, UK
Fleetwood boss Joey Barton has defensive decisions to make for Saturday's clash with Sky Bet League One leaders Luton.
Captain Craig Morgan is fit again after a recent knock but Ash Eastham has shone in his absence at centre-back and helped the team keep successive clean sheets.
Wes Burns, who recently impressed at right-back while Lewie Coyle was suspended, has also recovered from an ankle injury. Midfielder James Wallace is doubtful after being forced off in the first half of last week's victory at Bradford.
Mick Harford remains in charge of Luton after the Hatters confirmed this week the former England striker would continue as interim manager for the remainder of the season.Harford has been boosted by the return to training of forwards Kazenga LuaLua, Elliot Lee and Harry Cornick to training this week and all three will be assessed.
Midfielder Luke Berry is doubtful after suffering a knock against Luton last weekend while defender Glen Rea is a long-term absentee. Luton are bidding to extend their unbeaten league run to a new club record 20th game.
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This will be just the second league meeting between Fleetwood and Luton, with the Hatters winning the only previous clash in December 2018 (2-0).
Fleetwood conceded with both of their shots on target faced in this season's reverse fixture against Luton (0-2), while failing to score with three of their own.
Fleetwood have won three of their last four league outings (L1), as many as they had won in their previous 12 such games.
Since losing to Barnsley in October, Luton have dropped just eight points out of a possible 57 available (W15 D4).
Luton's James Collins has scored five goals in his last three league games; he has now equalled his league total from 2017-18 (19 goals).
