Luton Town 1-0 Newcastle United: What Townsend said

Luton's match-winner Andros Townsend on beating Newcastle just a week after captain Tom Lockyer suffered a cardiac arrest: “It feels amazing to get the points, but it’s been a tough week. All the chat throughout the week was ‘do it for our captain’. He’s an incredible person. He’s obviously had the issue [a previous cardiac arrest] at Wembley and put his body, his life, on the line for the first 16 games.

“So we are doing it for him. We got the three points for him and we are going to keep doing it for him until, if and when he is fit to come back. We're going to keep doing it for our skipper.

“We’ve had it tough at home. We’ve almost got there, almost got over the line a couple of times, but we've conceded leads in the last seconds. It was an emotional rollercoaster but thankfully we got the win at the end of it.

“Things like this [Lockyer's scare] put things into perspective. We didn’t do much tactical work in the week, it was all about making sure we were in the right frame of mind, making sure we know what we are playing for, knowing that there are more important things than football.

"In a way, it was easy to not feel too much pressure, to not be anxious or worried about where we are in the table. It was about, listen, we are alive, we are healthy, our captain is alive, our captain is healthy, and what will be, will be."