I suspect both teams will be relatively pleased with their respective starts to the new season. United only collected 13 wins from their last 92 Championship games in 16-17 and 18-19 relegation campaigns and were desperate to avoid falling out of the blocks again. 9 points is "ok" and if they could have hand picked one of their two wins, it would have been hated rival Sheffield Wednesday who they beat 3-0 last miweek. They might have been lucky that they faced the Owls at the right time and their other win came versus Wycombe who were promoted along with the Millers last season.

 

Luton are coming off a 3-0 home defeat to Brentford which we discussed yesterday, they were outplayed, but I like the way head coach Nathan Jones (pictured) just admitted as much, said that Brentford were "years ahead of Town" and just wanted to move on. His team have 13 points on board through 9 games and they only had 21 through 28 games last season, they were nine points from safety prior to Jones' return to Kenilworth Road, but he helped them survive and across his two reigns, Town have lost just 33/157 league starts, averaging just shy of 1.8 ( 1.796) points per game. They have rarely lost back to back with him in charge and next time out after their last 22 defeats they are 14-7-1 which is an average of 2.23 points pg. Town have taken 9 points from three teams who would be seen as likely relegation candidates and will see the Millers as another. XP suggests that United should have lost the seven games they did not win and although Town have issues at left back and will have to play someone out of position, I favour them to bounce back and like the level ball option.

 

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Good luck !