Luton boss Jack Wilshere speaking to Sky Sports:
“I though we were outstanding, I thought we dominated, I thought we were the team looking to take the game by the scruff of the neck, to dominate it, to take control of it.
“We spoke about having a little bit more threat at half-time which even in the second half I felt the same I said to the players you probably know the league better than me and the moments you think don’t matter, do matter.
“We can’t give three goals away and perform like that, a tough one to take, frustrating but a lot of positives to take.
“I actually thought after that transition moment [for the first goal], we controlled the transitions, we spoke a lot about how we control the game in the final third and the importance of managing their players up the pitch, I thought we did that.
“The second goal was us giving it away and the third was from the second or third phase of a set-play so we have to look at that and get back to clean sheets’”
Reading boss Leam Richardson speaking to Sky Sports:
“I think the way we started the game, took the ascendancy, controlled large parts of it, but then we make a mistake, we let them back in it and make a game of it so I’m sure it was great for the viewers, not so much for myself on the sideline.
“We’ve had many meetings, we know we’ve got a young team, they’re learning on the job.
“They’ve not had the privilege to go out on loan and learn and make those mistakes, they’re learning in our own arena with our own fans so I think there’s a lot of meetings about consistency, finding that edge, finding that way to win because in this league you have to.
“It would have been easy for any team to go under but we showed fight right until the end and to be honest I thought we deserved to win.
“I have got a thing about substitutes coming on have got to either maintain the levels or lift them.
“To have Jack [Marriott] back is there for all to see he’s an absolutely lethal goalscorer, great to score against his old team I’m sure, but then also Kelvin [Ehibhatiomhan] comes on to carry the fight and like all good strikers do he got straight into the game and I’m made up that he scored the winner as well.”
Reading striker Jack Marriott talking to Sky Sports:
“I think everyone’s on the same page, we’ve got our structure and we’ve got energy up the top of the pitch, we’ve got the big man [Ehibhatiomhan] to come on.
“He made a huge difference when he came on, scored a great goal and that’s what we need in the final third, we need to be scoring goals, that’s the pressure that we have to take.
“It’s a massive three points we have got to build on that, take it into the Christmas period and really go on a bit of a run now.”
Marriott on his darts-influenced celebration:
“My best mate from school started chemotherapy today and he said if you score please do it, so I did it for him.”
