Ogbene pleased to see Luton showing some ‘arrogance’ in their fight for Premier League survival
Town attacker Chiedozie Ogbene is happy to see Luton starting to play with a touch more ‘arrogance’ in the Premier League after finding their feet at their new level following a difficult introduction to the season.
Having won promotion to the top flight back in May with a day Luton fans will never forget at Wembley when beating Coventry City in the play-off final, Town took their time to adapt in the highest tier of English football, before starting to pick up results, winning three out of six fixtures recently. Although that run of good form was ended in disappointing fashion by Sheffield United on Saturday, Ogbene believes with Ross Barkley and Sambi Lokonga now proving key additions in the midfield, it has given Luton a different mentality with which to approach games.
He said: “We continue to learn every day, the manager works so hard day and night trying to find ways which we can be better and I think what helps us is we’re a very athletic team. At the start of the season we knew that, but maybe we sat off teams a bit more. Now we’re using that athleticism against teams, trying to be more progressive, trying to be almost man-to-man to see if they can outrun us and teams have struggled to do that. That’s one thing we’ve tried to change from the start of the season and we’re just trying to use Ross coming in, he’s firing, that quality in the middle of the pitch, he can control games, Ross and Sambi.
