The Town had to settle for a share of the spoils in a scrappy draw against draw-specialists West Brom.

Albion took the lead against the run of play at the end of the first half when Josh Maja turned home from inside the area.

However, the Hatters deservedly got a point for their endeavour when man-of-the-match Tahith Chong swept a wonderful equaliser home on the hour.

Both sides pushed for a late winner but it ended all square as the visitors registered a fifth straight draw.

Showing two changes to the side that lost at Coventry last weekend with Amari’i Bell and Teden Mengi replacing the suspended Tom Holmes and Alfie Doughty, the Town started well.

But both sides struggled to find their passing accuracy in a turgid first half.

Carlton Morris’ shot on the turn on 24 minutes was held by Alex Palmer in the Albion goal before the visiting keeper then stopped Elijah Adebayo’s shot moments later.

But just went it looked as though both sides would go in at the break level with the score blank, the Baggies led in the fourth minute of added time at the of the half. Karlan Grant’s low cross from the left was back-flicked goalwards by Maja and his effort bobbled through the legs of Jordan Clark and rolled agonisingly into the net.

At the start of the second half, the Town made a change, Shandon Baptiste replacing Victor Moses and shortly before the hour mark a double change saw Adebayo and Tom Krauß make way for Liam Walsh and Jacob Brown.

And the changes had the desired effect as the Hatters began to reassert the pressure and on the hour it was level. Chong pounced on a loose ball 25 yards from goal, raced forward and swept a fine, low, left-foot finish past Palmer’s out-stretched hand.

Four minutes later the Kenilworth Road end appealed in vain for a penalty after the ball appeared to bounce off the arm of Albion’s Callum Styles only for referee Dean Whitestone to wave away the shouts.

It was then Albion’s turn to press and the Hatters were thankful to some strong defending from Mark McGuinness to get in the way as the shots from the visitors headed goalwards.

Chong came mighty close to putting the Town in front with 15 minutes left only for Palmer to get a glove on the midfielder’s deflected effort.

Half chances came and went for the Town. Walsh whizzed a shot wide from and Baptiste’s header at the back-post was cleared by the Albion back-line as the Hatters pushed for a late winner.

Then, with six minutes left, the Town thought they’d got all three points when Daiki Hashioka’s header from a Baptiste corner crashed off the woodwork.

The final chance fell to the visitors and the Hatters had Thomas Kaminski to thank for pushing away Devante Cole’s overhead kick with a minute left and it proved to be the final chance.

Town: Kaminski; Moses (sub Baptiste 46), Bell, McGuinness, Mengi, Hashioka; Krauß (sub Walsh 57), Clark, Chong; Morris, Adebayo (sub Brown 57).

Subs not used: Krul, Woodrow, Nakamba, Mpanzu, Taylor, Johnson.