Sky Sports pundit David Prutton predicts West Brom showdown v Luton Town
David Prutton has backed Luton Town to beat West Brom on Saturday afternoon in the Championship showdown.
The Sky Sports pundit has backed the Baggies to end their goalscoring drought, but it will count for nothing in the end.
Steve Bruce is still looking for his first win since replacing Valerien Ismael, picking up one point against Sheffield United and Blackburn.
Writing in his Sky Sports predictions column, Prutton didn’t give much hope to the travelling Baggies fans.
“Luton’s good form came to an end with a bump last weekend as they fell to a poor defeat at Birmingham,” he wrote.
“It would have felt like an opportunity missed for Nathan Jones to really get his side in amongst the jostling positions for the play-offs.
“It’s a defeat and a draw for Steve Bruce now, and no goals yet. They still look a side without any real attacking creativity, and that is something he needs to sort out. I fancy West Brom to score, but I also think they might lose.”
The key?
Going to Luton is always a scrappy encounter, so it may be that Andy Carroll is the key to picking up three points here.
The Baggies need to find a way to utilise him better, with no real dangerous crosses being put into the box consistently throughout games.
One thing for sure, we simply cannot afford to lose another game in this position or we will be quickly waving goodbye to the play-offs.
Luton are one of our direct rivals for those top six spots, and we are crying out for some consistency to pick up numerous wins in a row.
That has to start here, so it isn’t good enough just ending the goalscoring drought, we need to win too – there are no excuses.
In other West Brom news, Chris Lepkowski has hit back at one ’embarrassing’ Baggies moment v Blackburn