Preview: Bristol City vs. Luton Town - prediction, team news, lineups

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Sports Mole previews Thursday's Championship clash betwixt Bristol City and Luton Town, including predictions, squad quality and imaginable lineups.

Bristol City volition look to extremity a four-game winless tally erstwhile they invited Luton Town to Ashton Gate connected Boxing Day.

The Robins are successful 12th spot successful the Championship table, portion the Hatters are conscionable 2 points further backmost successful 15th position.

Match preview

Bristol City manager Liam Manning connected December 14, 2024 © Imago

Bristol City are inactive searching for their archetypal triumph successful December aft taking conscionable 2 points from their 4 matches since beating Plymouth Argyle astatine the extremity of November.

The Robins fell to a dense 3-0 decision against Portsmouth, earlier they recorded consecutive 1-1 draws against Sunderland and Queens Park Rangers.

They past failed to instrumentality thing from Sunday's distant clash against West Bromwich Albion, losing 3-0 astatine the Hawthorns pursuing Mikey Johnston's first-half brace.

Having taken 27 points from 22 league matches, Bristol City are sitting 7 points adrift of the Championship playoffs and 9 points supra the relegation zone.

Bristol City volition present crook their absorption to back-to-back location games against Luton and Portsmouth, with the Robins looking to amended upon their caller grounds of conscionable 1 triumph successful 7 games astatine Ashton Gate.

They person besides won conscionable 1 of their erstwhile six games against Luton, though that sole triumph came successful their astir caller location gathering successful August 2022.

Luton Town brag Rob Edwards successful November 2024. © Imago

Luton volition beryllium successful precocious spirits aft they staged a precocious turnaround to snatch each 3 points successful past Friday's location clash with Derby County.

Tom Holmes netted an 89th-minute equaliser to cancel retired Kayden Jackson's opener, earlier Carlton Morris scored a stoppage-time victor to clinch a constrictive 2-1 triumph astatine Kenilworth Road.

That effect represented their 4th triumph successful the past 5 location matches (D1), moving them 7 points wide of the driblet portion up of Thursday's fixture.

Rather than avoiding relegation, Luton volition inactive harbour hopes of mounting a playoff propulsion aft dropping down from the Premier League past season, with Rob Edwards' broadside needing to marque up a 10-point spread to the apical six.

If they are to adjacent that gap, the Hatters volition person to nutrient a important betterment connected the road, having taken conscionable 4 points from their 10 distant league matches this season.

Not lone bash they person the third-worst distant record, but they person besides mislaid each of their erstwhile 7 Championship distant matches since they claimed a constrictive 1-0 triumph implicit Millwall connected September 14.

Bristol City Championship form:

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Team News

George Tanner of Bristol City celebrates connected August 24, 2024 © Imago

The hosts are expected to beryllium without the services of Sinclair Armstrong, Joe Williams, Kal Naismith and Mark Sykes.

The Bristol City aesculapian volition person to measure Nakhi Wells aft helium sat retired the caller decision to West Brom with a insignificant wounded issue.

Ross McCrorie and George Tanner are acceptable to supply options disconnected the seat aft they returned from wounded to diagnostic successful Sunday's matchday squad.

As for the visitors, they are incapable to telephone upon Teden Mengi and Amari'i Bell owed to genu and hamstring injuries respectively.

The brace are besides joined connected the sidelines by Shandon Baptiste, Reece Burke, Reuell Walters and Alfie Doughty, portion Liam Walsh volition service the 2nd crippled of a four-match ban.

In affirmative news, Edwards has confirmed that Daiki Hashioka volition instrumentality to the matchday squad aft missing the triumph implicit Derby with a musculus problem.

Bristol City imaginable starting lineup:
O'Leary; Vyner, McNally, Dickie, Pring; Bird, McGuane; Mehmeti, Knight, Twine; Mayulu

Luton Town imaginable starting lineup:
Kaminski; Hashioka, McGuinness, Holmes; Moses, Krauss, Clark, Chong; Brown, Adebayo, Morris

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We say: Bristol City 2-2 Luton Town

While Luton person won 4 of their past 5 location matches, they person struggled to replicate that benignant of signifier distant from Kenilworth Road, and with that successful mind, we deliberation the Hatters volition person to settee for a stock of the spoils successful their clash with a Bristol City broadside that person drawn 4 of their erstwhile 7 location matches.

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