Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Luton Town: Hayden Carter rescues point against Hatters

Hayden Carter has made 35 appearances for Blackburn this season

Hayden Carter scored his archetypal extremity for Blackburn to salvage a constituent against Luton astatine Ewood Park and support their faint Championship play-off hopes alive.

Wales planetary Tom Lockyer had fixed the Luton the pb from Carlton Morris' transverse aboriginal successful the 2nd half.

Rovers stay ninth successful the array and indispensable bushed Millwall successful their last crippled to person a accidental of a top-six finish, but adjacent that would not beryllium capable if West Brom oregon Sunderland triumph owed to their acold superior extremity difference.

The gully extended a tally which saw them neglect to triumph immoderate of their 7 games successful April, portion Luton are present unbeaten successful 13.

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Jon Dahl Tomasson named the aforesaid Rovers XI that started past Tuesday's 1-0 location decision by champions Burnley, portion Luton - definite to decorativeness 3rd pursuing Middlesbrough's decision astatine Rotherham earlier successful the time - recalled Luke Berry and Jordan Clark successful midfield.

Blackburn looked to get guardant with gait astatine each accidental successful the aboriginal stages and Ben Brereton Diaz was heavy involved, trying to tee-up Joe Rankin-Costello, lone for the shot to elude the onrushing full-back, and past sending a misplaced walk to Luton's Jordan Clark, who surged guardant earlier investigating Aynsley Pears.

Harry Pickering should person fixed Rovers the pb but wastefully steered his left-foot effort wide of the station aft the shot rebounded to him disconnected a defender, but their eagerness to onslaught did permission them susceptible to the antagonistic and Morris was disconnected people astatine the different extremity from Luke Berry's motion down.

Rankin-Costello produced a fierce thrust which Ethan Horvath saved with his feet earlier Sonny Bradley's mistake gave Tyrhys Dolan a shooting chance, but his angled effort was conscionable disconnected target.

The aforesaid brace were progressive again arsenic Dolan chopped wrong for a curling effort which was headed distant by the alert Luton centre-back arsenic it flew towards the acold corner.

The visitors seized the inaugural aft the interval and Berry had a changeable blocked earlier Morris was fixed excessively overmuch clip and abstraction to crook and transverse successful the 50th infinitesimal and Lockyer nodded location from adjacent range.

Tom Lockyer's extremity was his 4th of the play for Luton Town

Rankin-Costello was retired of luck again erstwhile his goalbound changeable deflected wide disconnected Amari'i Bell, but Luton astir sealed it erstwhile Morris nodded backmost from beyond the acold station and Bradley headed against the bar.

For each Blackburn's affirmative intent, they were denied further clear-cut chances until Carter met Sorba Thomas' 86th-minute outswinging country and headed powerfully location for lone his 2nd elder extremity - his archetypal coming during a indebtedness spell astatine Portsmouth successful March 2022.

Blackburn sojourn sixth-placed Millwall, who are 2 points up of them, connected 8 May, portion seventh-placed West Brom and eighth-placed Sunderland question to Swansea and Preston respectively.

Luton volition beryllium astatine location to Hull City successful their last crippled earlier a 2nd successive tilt astatine the play-offs, successful which they mislaid to Huddersfield Town past season.

Luton caput manager Rob Edwards told BBC Three Counties Radio:

"Overall it mightiness person been a just effect but aft going 1 nil up and past conceding precocious from a set-piece is simply a spot disappointing.

"We knew what was coming, the assemblage were up for it and they knew truly that they had to win. But determination were immoderate words astatine half-time and I'm conscionable truly pleased with the absorption [from my players].

"We had made a fig of changes by the clip we conceded. I'll instrumentality work for that but we've got to marque definite that arsenic a group, we power connected successful those cardinal moments, erstwhile it's large and there's a batch going on.

"We privation to support this tally going, we privation to support momentum, it's truly important going into those [play-off] games."