Stoke City 1-1 Luton Town: Millenic Alli nets injury-time Hatters leveller

After a tense but poor first half in which Sam Gallagher’s on-target header for Stoke and Theo Aasgaard volley’s for Luton were the only moments worthy of mention, it quickly livened up after the break.

Big Luton striker Carlton Morris’s crude block on Stoke defender Ashley Phillips got the home fans angry – and things started to get a more heated.

Mark McGuinness headed just wide for Luton, followed by Stoke defender Ben Wilmot’s head testing Thomas Kaminski.

And the Luton keeper was then nearly caught in no man’s land when the Hatters got caught short-handed down their left side and Gallagher was fed by Million Manhoef.

But, although the Stoke striker shot early, it was not powerful or accurate enough and it trickled just wide of the left upright – and, although ungainly, Kaminski did just enough the block the shot when Baker had a pot at goal from long range.

The game then finally got a goal when Lamine Fanne wrestled Gallagher to the deck and Luton-born Baker took full advantage.

He struck a powerful right-foot free-kick which took a big deflection off Reece Burke to wrongfoot Kaminski and settle in the right corner – and stun the 1,191 away fans in a below-par crowd of 21,226 into silence.

But Luton have finally found a bit of their missing spirit in the past few weeks – and they had their answer when Alli found some space to power home from a tight angle.