Captain Kal Naismith insisted the Hatters will learn from the experience of losing 2-1 at Bradford – and is glad of the immediate chance to put things right when Wigan come to town on Tuesday night.

The Scottish defender, who originally joined the Town from the Tuesday’s visitors in 2021, had been part of a back line that had kept successive clean sheets in the opening two League One fixtures.

They were undone by the Bantams’ goals either side of half-time, however, with Stephen Humphrys and Bobby Pointon on target for the hosts before Gideon Kodua pulled one back with his first goal for the Town in the closing stages.

“It’s tough, it’s hard,” said the 33-year-old when asked how the dressing room was feeling. “You’ve got a lot of emotion, a lot of people are down, it can feel like the end of the world in football sometimes, but it’s not. It’s part of life. You lose and that’s it, you learn and sometimes you learn most from losing.

“There were positive things for us that might be what we need, just to learn what this league’s about. It’s about battles, and we need to do it right – which we have been doing to be fair to us – but we can learn a lot from that.

“Everyone is a bit down, but we’ll recover, we’ll do the right things, we’ll come back and then we’ll get to work, and we’ll get a chance to put it right.”

That analysis would have come on the journey home from Yorkshire, and back at The Brache in preparation for the first midweek home game of the campaign.

“We’ll do a debrief, watch clips on it and where we could have done better, because it’s hard when you’re in it and you’re in the moment,” said Naismith.

“It’s good to step out and watch to learn, even if it is clips of us making mistakes or wrong positional play, it’s good to learn from that and see what we could have done better.

“How could we have hurt them better on the ball as well? We’ve got such great players and there was little bits where we got into good areas, and we just never really had any clear-cut chances for our attacking players. So we need to work on that as well, which we will.”

And Naismith is adamant that the best is still to come from the new-look Luton Town team.

“I think so, yes. I think we’re yet to see it. A lot of the forward players haven’t clicked into play yet,” he said.

“We’ve been solid as a team and we’ve been doing the basics to be fair, which was a bit off today, but yes, it’s early in the season. We'll be demanding for a lot more on Tuesday night and I’m sure we’ll get it.”