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Luton Town 4-3 Forest Green Rovers: Comeback gives Jack Wilshere big fright

This seven-goal thriller was a cup treat for the neutral but Gideon Kodua’s stoppage-time winner was a cruel trick on a Forest Green side who had threatened to give Luton a nightmare evening.
Forest Green Rovers’ Jili Buyabu swings in a cross under pressure from Luton Town’s Jake Richards

By Matthew Nash

LUTON TOWN 4
Dabo 23, Wells 30, 53, Kodua 90+2

FOREST GREEN R 3
Knowles 61, McAllister 68 (pen), Dausch 79
This seven-goal thriller was a cup treat for the neutral but Gideon Kodua’s stoppage-time winner was a cruel trick on a Forest Green side who had threatened to give Luton a nightmare evening.
A dreamlike comeback from 3-0 down from the National League side spooked the Hatters but the League One hosts found their perfect ending to what had been looking like a horrible Halloween.
Rovers boss Robbie Savage called it “one of the proudest moments of my footballing life” a...

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