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One point and one place separated these two at kick-off, and with both still looking over their shoulder in the battle to avoid the Championship trap door this season, it was clear neither were willing to give an inch.
The hosts saw an early chance slip by when Yuki Ohashi blazed over unmarked from 10 yards, and the high-and-wide effort set the tone for most of this lunchtime fixture.
Ohashi
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
Mowbray handed Armstrong his debut while Joe Wildsmith took the number one shirt after Alex Palmer’s departure for Ipswich, lining up against the club where he spent the first eight years of his career.
Defender Mason Holgate missed out through illness, with Kyle Bartley returning to the team and captaining the side.
Wednesday skipper Barry Bannan missed just his second game of the season through injury in a major blow
Marco Silva’s superb work at Fulham has been illustrated by the manner in which they earned fully deserved draws at home to Arsenal and away at Liverpool in recent weeks.
Fulham are a potent combination of quality, energy and relentless ambition and that was all on show here as they were undaunted by going behind to Palmer’s superb early strike.
It was no surprise when Wilson equalised, Fulham then preying