Luton deliver back-to-back victories by seeing off play-off chasers Bristol City

Luton Town maintained their hopes of Championship survival after a 3-1 win over play-off chasers Bristol City at Kenilworth Road.

Thelo Aasgaard, Carlton Morris and Isiah Jones grabbed the goals as Matt Bloomfield’s side followed up their Good Friday win in a six-pointer at Derby by seeing off the side that began the day in 5th place in the Championship.

On an eventful day that saw the Hatters’ fellow relegation rivals Derby, Plymouth and Hull all record wins, Luton remain inside the relegation zone. They are divided from Derby by goal difference, in a tightly clustered bottom end of the Championship where only three points split the bottom four of the table, with Preston, Oxford and Hull all within three points of the bottom three.

Having beaten fellow strugglers Derby in the first part of the Easter double header, Luton faced a tricky test in the form of a visit from Bristol City, who beat Sunderland on Good Friday to maintain their grasp on a play-off position.

Luton began on the front foot against the Robins, with Liam Walsh denied by Max O’Leary before the Bristol City keeper also made the save after Cameron Pring’s clearance rebounded off Aasgaard and flew back towards the away side’s goal.

Nahki Wells saw a low effort drift wide, in perhaps the visitor’s only real opportunity of the first half, while Aasgaard came close for the hosts with a free-kick that cleared the crossbar by a couple of inches.

Within four minutes of the restart, Luton found the game’s opening goal. O’Leary was ruled to have bundled the ball away despite home shouts he had fouled Millenic Alli, but the Hatters remained on the attack and Christ Makosso fed Aasgaard, who drilled a low strike that squirmed under O’Leary and in.

The lead would only be Luton’s for three minutes, however. Teden Mengi’s clearance seemed to have dealt with a dangerous cross, but Bristol City full-back George Tanner sent a crashing volley that beat Thomas Kaminski to equalise.

Seven minutes later, however, Luton found themselves back in front. A corner induced a scramble within the Bristol City box and the ball eventually landed the way of Morris, who hooked home a volley for his first goal of 2025.

Tanner was denied by a flying save by Kaminski, with the same man then walloping the rebound over the top.

Luton responded by scoring a third goal a few moments later. Having won the ball back, Jones was able to fly forward, elude a tackle, break into the box and drilled a low shot into the bottom corner to make it 3-1.

The referee waved away penalty appeals for the visitors after Mengi’s challenge on Robins substitute Sinclair Armstrong, while Kaminski made a good save to keep out George Earthy, but the away side ran out of time to eat into Luton’s lead.

That allowed Luton to pick up a huge three points and maintain form akin to the teams around them after several of their rivals won. Luton face two big games to wrap up their season, starting with a home clash with play-off chasing Coventry City next weekend.