Town's youngsters continued their good start to pre-season with a 10-0 thrashing of Leverstock Green's Under-18s.
The final score line somewhat flattered the young Hatters as at half time Town had only managed to score once against a very stubborn Leverstock defence. The initial breakthrough came from Jordan Patrick after 32 minutes. Liam Toomey had beaten two players on the edge of the box and instead of shooting unselfishly squared the ball for Patrick to tap home.
Town started much brighter in the second half and extended their lead as they broke quickly from midfield. Jean-Phillipe Yamfam intercepted the ball, slid in Toomey who played a one two with Patrick before slotting home.
Leverstock Green were obviously put off their stride and the Hatters scored again within two minutes of their last goal. Mustafa Mirzai stole the ball in midfield and played in Patrick who danced by a couple of players and slotted home.
It was now one way traffic as Town's fitness told. Toomey put the game beyond doubt after 66 minutes, after dribbling past foue players on the edge of the box before finishing. He got his hat-trick shortly after that as Mirzai broke from midfield, slid in Toomey and once again the striker finished with ease.
With Green's legs fading fast, Town powered on with Dasilva getting a brace, Kaddu, Tavernier and Fitzgibbon all scoring to complete the rout.
A happy youth team boss Martin Prickett said afterwards: "I was really disappointed with our first half performance. I thought we started really slowly and we could have defended better and got more pressure on the ball and I thought the lads simply didn't looked bothered.
"We must learn from that so we start quicker in our Youth Alliance fixtures otherwise we will find ourselves behind within 10 minutes and chasing the game.
"As Leverstock Green's stamina faded in the second half we ran riot and, with better finishing, we could have scored more.
"The game changer was Liam Toomey. In the first half he could have worked so much harder and we actually saw what he is capable of in the second half.
"I hope he now uses that performance as a benchmark and only gets better as the season continues.
"Thankfully now our fixture schedule becomes a lot harder and we will find out what these lads are really about, starting at Norwich on Tuesday."
Squad:
Kidd, Deeney, James, Carney, Jibodu, Dasilva, Blake, Yamfam, Gnahore, Toomey, Patrick, Kaddu, Mirzai, Fitzgibbon, Tavernier.
