Luton Town: Hatters boss John Still blasts one of his players after Oxford United sucker punch

Luton boss John Still refused to blame goalkeeper Mark Tyler for his 94th minute howler that gifted Oxford United a point, but admitted he was ‘very angry’ with one of his other players afterwards.

After the U’s scored two late goals to draw 2-2 today the Luton boss appeared to give full back Scott Griffiths a dressing down during their usual post-match huddle.

Still refused to name the subject of his ire, but said there will be repercussions when the player returns for training on Monday.

“I was very animated and very angry. I wasn’t happy with one of my players,” the manager revealed.

“It’s nothing to do with good, bad or indifferent [play], but a lack of discipline has led to them getting the ball to score the goal. He’s only got to do one thing. He knows what he’s got to do.

“It’s small margins. People don’t trip over a mountain, they trip up the kerb because it’s small and you don’t really see it. You’ve got to make sure you keep all of the small things in check and we had a great opportunity to do that and we didn’t.

“They regained the ball and [Oxford’s goal] actually came from that. Was that the reason Mark Tyler missed the ball? No it wasn’t. But that situation wouldn’t have happened. I deal with it Monday.”

Tyler made his first league start in six months but in a rare moment of poor judgement the 38-year-old misread the flight of an injury time cross and Pat Hoban scrambled the recycled ball into an empty net.

“You [media] probably know Mark more than me,” Still said, adding: “He doesn’t really make mistakes, but he made a mistake. We all make them, so we’ll live with it.”

Luke Wilkinson and Cameron McGeehan had given the Hatters a deserved 2-0 lead but Kemar Roofe’s deflected 82nd minute strike gave Oxford a glimmer of hope before Tyler’s blunder.

Still said: “You can’t do a lot about the first goal. That’s football. Mark, 99 times out of 100, would deal with the second one, but he didn’t, so we had to go with a point.

“[There was] lots of good play from us, lots of good positions, lots of good opportunities and I was really pleased with how we played, but I’m obviously disappointed to concede.”

Before Hoban’s leveller, McGeehan missed a golden chance to put the game beyond United and Still said: “Cam scored and I think he should have scored again, which would have made the game over. He didn’t and that’s football.

“There are lots of good things in our game but you’ve got to take the errors out. We all make them and sometimes they hurt you and sometimes they don’t. This one hurt us.”