Luton Town manager Rob Edwards was impressed with his team’s performance despite their 3-0 defeat to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Friday night.

Edwards told Sky Sports: “I don’t like losing, none of us do. But there are ways to lose. When our fans reacted like that, applauding us off, we know we’ve done something right.

“We were up against it, against a really good team today. I thought we were really brave, I am proud of the players.

“I’ve seen improvement from the game against Brighton. We were aggressive when we could be and tried to go for them. In the end both ends of the pitch let us down slightly. They were ruthless in the key moments and we weren’t. There are areas to work on.

“Second half I thought we started as the better team. We had to make something happen but we weren’t able to.

“It was going to go one way or another, we needed to score but they did.

“The players have worked so hard, I’m not going to blame anyone. We have to make sure we can do the basics for 100 minutes. Football is difficult, especially at this level.”