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Luton Town squandered a three-goal lead to lose 4-3 at\u00a0Bournemouth\u00a0as they blew their chance to climb out of the Premier League relegation zone on Wednesday.<\/p>\nLuton Town squandered a three-goal lead to lose 4-3 at\u00a0Bournemouth\u00a0as they blew their chance to climb out of the Premier League relegation zone on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
It looked so good for Luton on an emotional night\u00a0<\/strong>on the south coast<\/strong>\u00a0as first-half goals by Tahith Chong, Chiedozie Ogbene and Ross Barkley put them in complete control.That scoreline would have lifted Luton above Nottingham Forest into 17th place but\u00a0Bournemouth, who were booed off at halftime were transformed after the interval.Dominic Solanke struck\u00a0immediately after the break and the hosts were level by the 65th minute thanks to goals by\u00a0Illia Zabarnyi and Antoine Semenyo.Luton were reeling and there was a sense of inevitability about Semenyo netting the winner in the 83rd minute.The game was re-scheduled after the initial fixture was abandoned after 59 minutes in December when Luton captain Tom Lockyer suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch.<\/strong>Lockyer, whose photo adorned\u00a0Bournemouth\u2018s match-day programme,\u00a0was present on Wednesday and received a standing ovation before kickoff as he met the medics who saved his life.Luton remain in 18th place with 21 points from 28 games, three points behind Nottingham Forest\u00a0who they host at the weekend in a crunch relegation battle.\u201cIt\u2019s going to hurt but we have to pick ourselves up. We have another huge game in a few days time and we\u2019ve got no other option but to pick ourselves up and go again,\u201d downbeat Luton manager Rob Edwards said.\u201cWe are not out of this fight<\/strong>. We are three points behind the team above us and our job is to try and win the game on Saturday.\u201dThe focus was all on Lockyer before kickoff as he returned to the stadium where he almost lost his life.\u201cI am quite numb to the whole thing but being back here, I came into the tunnel area and saw the paramedics that saved my life,\u201d Lockyer said. \u201cI recognised them straight away.\u201cWhat do you say in that situation other than thank you? They are heroes, they saved my life. I got a bit emotional.\u201d<\/strong>Lockyer, who had an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) fitted following his cardiac arrest, was up applauding when Chong headed in after eight minutes from Jordan Clark\u2019s cross as Luton started fast.Chong was involved again in the 31st minute when his astute pass found Alfie Doughty who then teed up Ogbene to make it 2-0. And when Barkley finished superbly on the stroke of halftime Luton were in dreamland.Bournemouth\u00a0were sent out early for the second half by manager Andoni Iraola and they gave themselves a lifeline when Solanke spun away from Daiki Hashioka after some deft control and dinked the ball into the net for his 15th league goal of the seasonAll four sides of the stadium broke into applause in the 59th minute in respect of Lockyer but at almost the same moment Zabarnyi bundled in\u00a0Bournemouth\u2018s second.A couple of minutes later Semenyo cut in to lash a low shot past Luton keeper Thomas Kaminski and it was Semenyo who completed an incredible comeback with another powerful finish as Luton\u2019s defence crumbled.Bournemouth, who remain in 13th place with 35 points, are the first team for 21 years to win a Premier League game in which they trailed by three goals.They also recovered from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Sheffield United last weekend.Follow the Luton Town lost 4-3 to Bournemouth after leading by three goals, missing the chance to exit the Premier League relegation zone. Tahith Chong, Chiedozie Ogbene, and Ross Barkley scored for Luton in the first half. Bournemouth’s Dominic Solanke, Illia Zabarnyi, and Antoine Semenyo, with two goals, completed the comeback in the second half. The match was a rescheduled fixture due to Luton captain Tom Lockyer suffering a cardiac arrest in the initial game. Lockyer, who has since recovered and had an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator fitted, was honored before the match. Luton remains in 18th place with 21 points from 28 games, while Bournemouth is in 13th place with 35 points. This game marked the first time in 21 years a Premier League team won after trailing by three goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[232,1164,1469,3,1167,988,250,387,348,1872,1165,1870,991,1871,380],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-arrest","tag-bournemouth","tag-coast","tag-cyprus","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-google","tag-lost","tag-premier-league","tag-premier-league-relegation-zone","tag-sheffield-united","tag-squandered","tag-stadium","tag-three-goal-lead","tag-us"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n
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