Luton Town vs Notts County - prediction, team news, lineups

Luton Town's propulsion for a instrumentality to the Championship continues connected Saturday day erstwhile they invited newly-promoted Notts County to Kenilworth Road. 

The Hatters began their 2nd play successful League One with a dramatic 4-3 comeback triumph implicit Reading, portion the Magpies earned an awesome constituent against erstwhile Premier League champions Leicester City are playing retired a 1-1 gully astatine Meadow Lane. 

Match preview

Having narrowly missed retired connected the League One playoffs past season, finishing conscionable 1 constituent down sixth-placed Stevenage, Luton Town volition beryllium determined to spell 1 amended this clip astir and unafraid an contiguous instrumentality to the Championship.

An encouraging pre-season has further raised optimism astir the Bedfordshire club, with George Johnston, Harrison Ashby, Callum Marshall and the imperishable signing Kasey Palmer among the additions brought successful to fortify Jack Wilshere's squad. 

The Hatters began their competitory run with a travel to Gillingham successful the League Cup, comfortably progressing to the 2nd circular aft securing a 3-0 triumph courtesy of goals from Nahki Wells, Benny Benagr and Gideon Kodua.

Attention past turned to their League One opener astatine Reading, wherever Wilshere's broadside endured a nightmare archetypal fractional and recovered themselves 3-1 down astatine the interval.

However, the Hatters produced a singular second-half turnaround, with Palmer scoring doubly earlier Kouda struck successful the 96th-minute to implicit a memorable 4-3 comeback.

As for visiting Notts County, they were handed a hard opening-day duty against Russell Martin's Leicester City, who were Premier League champions a decennary agone but person since suffered back-to-back relegations. 

The Magpies fell down soon aft half-time erstwhile Jayden Joseph recovered the net, but Martin Paterson's broadside refused to beryllium beaten and secured a stock of the spoils done Connor Grant's close-range decorativeness precocious on.

That constituent marked Notts County's archetypal successful League One for 11 years, having spent the intervening play dropping into non-league earlier battling their mode backmost done the divisions, portion overcoming important fiscal difficulties on the way.

The gully besides continued the awesome location signifier that helped the Magpies decorativeness 5th successful League Two past play earlier securing promotion via the playoffs, with Paterson's broadside winning 13 of their 23 location league matches.

They volition present beryllium hoping to transportation that attacking menace into the 3rd tier alternatively than repetition their struggles from the 2014-15 campaign, erstwhile 50 points were not capable to forestall relegation.

The 2 sides volition conscionable for the archetypal clip since playing retired a goalless gully astatine Meadow Lane successful 2018, with Luton experiencing 3 promotions and 2 relegations since that meeting.

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Team News

Despite their melodramatic opening-day victory, Luton volition cognize determination is plentifulness of country for betterment aft conceding 3 first-half goals and could marque changes for Saturday's contest.

One imaginable alteration could travel successful attack, with Kouda making an contiguous interaction from the seat by scoring the 96th-minute victor and perchance earning a spot from the start.

The guardant replaced Palmer, who had already scored a two-minute brace, making the erstwhile Bristol City midfielder a apt starter erstwhile again, though Kouda could alternatively travel into the broadside for Emilio Lawrence connected the wing.

As for Notts County, Paterson has nary caller wounded concerns to contend with and has the luxury of being capable to sanction an unchanged XI pursuing their awesome gully against Leicester.

However, Grant's precocious equaliser came aft being introduced from the bench, and his match-winning publication could spot him rewarded with a starting relation this weekend.

Should the Irish midfielder travel into the XI, Jack Evans is the astir apt subordinate to marque way.

Luton Town imaginable starting lineup:

Keeley, Jones, Odoffin, Johnston, Naismith; Clark, Walsh; Richards, Palmer, Kouda; Wells 

Notts County imaginable starting lineup:

Belshaw; Tsaroulla, Gibbons, Ness, Bedeau, Lipsiuc; Cooper, Campbell, Grant; Smyth, Roberts

We say: Luton Town 1-1 Notts County

Both sides stay unbeaten aft the opening weekend, though determination is understandably small to work into their respective league records aft conscionable 1 crippled of the 46-match campaign.

Notts County impressed against the Foxes connected the opening time and, having already demonstrated their quality to vie with 1 of the division's promotion hopefuls, we expect the Magpies to clasp their ain erstwhile again and permission Kenilworth Road with a hard-fought point.

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