RESERVES v WATFORD - LIVE!
Live updates from Kenilworth Road as they happen.
The Hatters need to win to clinch the East Division title of the totesport.com Combination. Watford lie two points ahead of the Town so the Hornets need just a draw to ensure the prize heads to Vicarage Road.
FULL TIME: Hatters 4-0 Watford
Scorers: Parkin 32, Jarvis 42, Roper 50, Charles 89 (pen).
FULL TIME: It's all over at Kenilworth Road the Hatters have crushed their local rivals to win the East Division of the totesport.com Combination, adding another trophy to the cabinet this season.
90 mins - Young seems to possess the same dead-ball skills like his older brother but he is denied a late consolation when he sees his free-kick from 18 yards saved by Wilkinson, diving at full-stretch to his right.
89 mins - GOAL! Jack Wood's delightful curling right-wing cross is handballed by Hornets' skipper Lavers and Charles tucks the resulting spot-kick low into the bottom right-hand corner of the net to make it four.
89 mins - PENALTY TO LUTON!
87 mins - George Beavan has gone about his business well all game, with his voice often the loudest on the pitch. He lets his football do the talking though with three minutes left on the clock when putting in a superb block tackle to deny Henderson as he pulled the trigger from 12 yards.
83 mins - Wood has gone down for the Town on the half-way line but it's nothing to worry about. Just a bit a cramp.
80 mins - Just 10 minutes seperate the Hatters from winning another trophy this season as they continue to pass the ball around with ease.
77 mins - Luton are looking for a fourth and substitute Sinclair fires high and wide of Searle's goal after nimble footwork on the left-hand edge of the penalty area.
72 mins - Third and final change from Neilson and Watson. Dayton is withdrawn to a generous round of applause from the Kenilworth Road crowd and is replaced by Scott Sinclair.
69 mins - The Hornets are trying their best to find a goal from somewhere but Williams' cross is comfortably gathered by Wilkinson in the Town net.
67 mins - Watford almost snatch a goal back but Henderson can only shoot into the side netting with a left-foot strike after running towards the Hatters' goal.
64 mins - A robust challenge from Roper on Marvin Sordell earns the defender a ticking-off from referee Burt as the winger bared down on goal.
62 mins - Double change for the Town. Goalscorer Parkin and Gnakpa are replaced by Rob Gradwell and Gavin McCallum.
59 mins - Again Young has the ball at his feet 20 yards from goal. However, just as he looks to beat two Town men, Roper put in a great defensive tackle to deny the youngster.
58 mins - Charles almost latches onto Wood's raking through-ball but Searle in the visitors' goal is quick off his line to gather the ball.
57 mins - The Hornets' Lewis Young is the brother of Aston Villa's Ashley, who started his career at Vicarage Road. He has the ball at his feet for the first time running at the Town defence but a combination of Davis and Asafu-Adjaye rob the youngster of the ball.
55 mins - Ed Asafu-Adjaye gets forward for the first time and sees a shot blocked by the Watford keeper. From Dayton's in-swinging corner Roper again gets up above everybody to nod the ball wide of Searle's right-hand post.
50 mins - GOAL! 3-0 Hatters and it's terrace darling and skipper for the day Ian Roper who climbs highest in a crowded penalty area to bundle the ball across the line following Jarvis' right-wing corner. The title is almost in their sights now.
47 mins - Charles has been a constant menace all afternoon for the Hornets defence, and, as the Hatters look to start from where they left off, his left-wing cross his volleyed behind by Gnakpa from 10 yards.
46 mins - We're underway for the second half as Watford kick-off. There are no changes for either side at the interval as the Town kick towards the Kenilworth Road end.
HALF TIME: It's half time at Kenilworth Road and the Hatters hold a two goal lead against their Hertfordshire rivals thanks to two stunning goals in the space of 10 minutes from Sam Parkin and Rossi Jarvis. The young Watford side did come close to opening the scoring 18 minutes but since then it's been all Luton. Stay tuned for more updates in the second half.
45 mins - Henderson blazes high and wide for the Hornets as they look to halve the defecit.
45 mins - The Hatters are looking to put the game beyond doubt and Charles sees his shot on the turn blocked by the visitors' centre-back Louis Lavers.
42 mins - GOAL! It's the second cracking effort in the space of 10 minutes as Jarvis volleys home a right-foot shot nestling into the bottom corner of the net after Watford had headed clear Sol Davis' left-wing cross.
39 mins - Dayton is upended by Cole Penny on the edge of the area after running at the Hornets defence with pace. From the resulting free-kick Jarvis curls a right-foot effort wide of Searle's right-hand post.
34 mins - It should be 2-0. Parkin muscles his way past two Watford defenders and is one-on-one with Searle. However, his barings are not as accurate this time as he sends a left-foot shot wide of the target from six yards.
32 mins - GOAL! Jack Wood robs his opposite number 8 of the ball and feeds Charles. The ball works its way to Parkin, and, as it sits up nicely, the striker sends a left-foot thunderbolt arching over Searle in the Hornets goal in off the crossbar.
29 mins - A wild effort from Dayton from Charles' knock-down goes flying into the Oak Road end.
26 mins - Another Dayton corner from the right almost creates the opening goal but Sam Parkin's close-range header is kept out by the reflexes of the Hornets' goalkeeper.
24 mins - There's no doubt the Town are now well and top and Charles flicks a header goalwards following a dangerous in-swinging Dayton corner.
22 mins - The Hatters should be ahead. Sol Davis spurns the Town's best chance of the game when crashing over from close range after Jarvis had done well do dig out a cross from the right hand edge of the penalty area.
20 mins - Back come the Hatters and George Beavan forces Hornets goalkeeper Stuart Searle into a good save with a header at the back post following another cross from Jarvis.
18 mins - Watford are enjoying their best spell of the game and after a succession of corners their right-back flashes a left-foot shot goalwards that Town keeper David Wilkinson does well to prevent from creeping into the corner of the net.
16 mins - Town are dominating possession and Gnakpa heads wide following another free-kick from Jarvis.
12 mins - The Hatters are always looking to use Dayton's pace down the left flank and more direct play from the winger wins a corner but the Hornets deal with Jarvis' flag-kick.
10 mins - Referee Mr Burt waves away Town penalty appeal as trialist James Dayton falls under a challenge from the visitors' right-back.
9 mins - More fans have turned up to lend their support to the Hatters as Claude Gnakpa heads over a Rossi Jarvis' free-kick from the right.
6 mins - The first chance for the Hatters and it's a speculative one from Ryan Charles whose volley from the right-hand edge from Jack Wood's long pass nearly catches the Watford goalkeeper unware.
4 mins - The young Watford side have the first chance of the game when Lewis Young beats Sol Davis down the right to cross for Liam Henderson who is denied by a block at the near post by Ian Roper.
A large crowd for reserve team standards have made it to the game and give the players a warm round of applause as they enter the pitch. Watford will be playing in their all-red away strip.
Watford's second string are managed by former Town loanee Sean Dyche and he names a young side made-up of players from the Hornets' Under 18 side.
Team news: Messrs Watson and Neilson name a strong line-up with a back-four of Ed Asafu-Adjaye, Sol Davis, Ian Roper and George Beavan, a midfield containing Claude Gnakpa and Rossi Jarvis and a strike partnership of Sam Parkin and Ryan Charles.
Luton Town: Wilkinson, Asafu-Adjaye, Davis, Jarvis, Roper, Beavan, Gnakpa, Wood, Parkin, Charles, Dayton.
Substitutes: Biggi, Fletcher, Sinclair, Gradwell, McCullem.
Watford: Searle, Williams, Angus, Brooks, Parkes, Lavers, Whichelon, Penny, Henderson, Young, Mingoia.
Substitutes: Sordell, Antal, Otshudi, Thompson, Isaac.














