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Derby County survival bid given a shot in the arm as rivals' awful run continues

File photo dated 10/01/25 of Matt Bloomfield, who has been appointed as manager of Luton on a three-and-a-half-year contract. Issue date: Tuesday January 14, 2025.
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Luton Town's wretched Championship form continued last night as they remain rooted to the foot of the table following a 1-1 draw against Plymouth.

In what was a game in hand for both clubs in a battle between the bottom two, the Hatters had looked on course to take three points against Argyle when Jacob Brown gave them the lead after half-time.

But with 20 minutes remaining, Maksym Talovierov equalised for the visitors to secure a fast-improving Plymouth team a valuable point. The result meant that Derby County stay third from bottom with Plymouth and Luton below them and they have now all played 33 games..

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Luton have not won in their last 11 Championship outings compared to Derby who are on a winless run of 10 games in the league and Hatters boss Matt Bloomfield is yet to oversee a victory after taking over from Rob Edwards who was sacked on January 9.

Reflecting on the result, Bloomfield said: "Disappointed, really disappointed. I wanted to do it as soon as possible of course, so I’m really disappointed it hasn’t come our way.

"A number of the games could have done. Preston in the first one absolutely could have gone our way, we’ve gone ahead twice at Oxford and not held out, and both Saturday (against Sheffield United) and tonight could have gone our way.

"They haven’t and we have to be honest with ourselves about the situation. I understand it, I don’t like it, but we have to be positive and keep focusing on getting that first victory.

"We wanted to win the game, but I think we have to be cautious to build it up into something, as nothing was going to be decided tonight. Of course we wanted to win, the performance showed that. My disappointment and our disappointment at not winning shows that, but at the same time there’s still games to play that we have to attack.

"I understand the severity of the situation that we’re in, of course I do and we believe we’ll improve and we have to believe that and we do believe that and on the balance of the two performances from Saturday and tonight, I think the evidence is there that we will improve. We wanted three points, we wanted to win the game, I thought we did enough to win the game and we're really frustrated not to have done so with the amount of opportunities we created.

“We limited our opposition to very little, but we didn't do the two boxes good enough to win the game ultimately and we're really frustrated about that. We're disappointed, the players are disappointed, but they've put everything out on the pitch and I don't think we can argue against that. We'll pick the bones out of it like we always do and use the positives for moving forward and look to use the negatives for the things that we need to improve on as there's a lot of work still to do and we aim to do that.”

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