Opposition view: Luton 'got what we deserved'

Luton manager Jack Wilshere believes his side are fully deserving of their place at Wembley after they fought back from a goal down to beat Northampton on Wednesday.

The Hatters trailed to Kyle McAdam’s first half header but turned things around through Nahki Wells and Liam Walsh to set up a date with Stockport County in next month’s Vertu Trophy.

"It’s a nice feeling and I’m proud of the players,” said Wilshere. “It hasn’t always gone our way this season but the players have to keep believe and dedicate themselves every single day on the training pitch and that’s how we’ve gone about it.

"I thought you saw tonight a really solid performance where we had variation in attack and we were relentless and we kept going. I wasn’t happy with their goal but they had two touches in our box in the first half.

"Our intensity dropped a bit and the message at half-time was to lift the intensity and attack with more purpose and in the end we got what we deserve in my opinion. We played through them really well.

"Sometimes you also have to put the ball in behind teams and that’s where the second goal comes from. We have to get better at that because I felt their line was really high at times in the first half but we didn’t get behind them enough.