Watford boss Tom Cleverley informed BBC Three Counties Radio:
“It is not straightforward taking part in in these derbies, or getting ready for them like they are a regular sport as a result of they don’t seem to be, so to get on the entrance foot like we did and to have the character to play the best way we needed to was essential.
“Mamadou Doumbia has introduced chasing misplaced causes to our staff, being prepared to run, to stretch defences, perhaps he isn’t had direct assists or objectives, however he is having a giant half to play in just about each objective we’re scoring on the minute.
“There is a sure stage the place you have to handle the sport and go from entrance foot to a bit extra protecting and we perhaps did that just a little bit too early – however after we did should handle the sport and see out a little bit of stress, we stood as much as it.
“Take the native rivalry out of it, it was an essential sport for us to get three factors in, when it comes to our league place.”
Luton City supervisor Matt Bloomfield informed BBC Look East:
“The gamers are clearly extraordinarily disenchanted with the end result and actually disenchanted to not give our supporters one thing to cheer about as a result of they turned up in unimaginable numbers and backed us.
“For the primary 5 – 6 minutes I believed we have been OK and performed in Watford’s half, took the sting out of them early on, then we gave the penalty away and the second objective was once more unfastened from us – and at 2-0 down it rocked us, understandably so.
“We made modifications at half-time, gave ourselves a foothold and grew again into the sport and if we might turned a kind of alternatives right into a objective, you by no means know what is going to occur from there.
“The boys are nonetheless preventing, they nonetheless handed, they probed, they nonetheless created probabilities, however we have to take a kind of alternatives at 0-0, not 2-0 down.”
