UPDATED: Still critical of Hatters over their first goal against Tamworth

Lateef Elford-Alliyu was allowed to scamper past two defenders early on and set up former Town target Duane Courtney to sweep home.

He said: “I was a bit disappointed with one of their goals.

“Not with all goals, I was a bit disappointed with one goal and I thought we should have defended it better.

“One of them was a good goal, my complaint was with the first goal, it was a poor goal to concede.”

But Still was pleased with the way his side battled back.

He said: “At the end of the day I’ll tell you what I know it was, it was a really good win because they are tough places to go.

“Every credit to them, they played a cup tie, they did, and we overcame that.

“Was I 100 per cent happy with everything we did? No I wasn’t.

“But it’s hard to be 100 per cent happy all the time and if someone says to you, you are going to go away from home and win basically you are going to be happy.

“You like to win by playing well, and you like to win by scoring goals. And if you look AT the situation we scored four goals, we won.”

Having fought back from a goal down to lead 4-1, the Hatters conceded twice more to be left hanging on at the end.

The Lambs fightback was triggered by a disputable penalty, as Still continued: “I think that the penalty. Is it or isn’t it? I’m not saying it wasn’t, but I’m saying another day it doesn’t get given and I think that might have just seen the game off for them.

“They got a lift from that, kept going, kept getting the ball up there and I thought they got a good goal.”

Still was also full of praise for Courtney’s second goal, as he continued: “I thought they won the first header, and when I watched it I thought the fella did great on the back post.

“But I thought we done well because we didn’t allow him to head at goal, we pressurised the cross, I thought it was a decent challenge where the fella’s done well and he could only head it down.

“He was marked so tightly by Paul Benson, that the only thing he could do was try and hook it on and he did and it went in.

“And I tell you what, if we’d scored it, I would have said it was a terrific goal and I’ll say it’s a terrific goal for them.”

And whereas he believed Luton should have done better with the first goal, he felt it was a different story with the other two.

“You know what you can’t stop? You can’t stop the unstoppable. Sometimes things happen in games that you’ve got to hold your hands up and say is it, isn’t it a penalty? The ref’s given it,” said Still.

“You can’t stop that. We can say as much as we want that it wasn’t, but he’s given it.

“One was a penalty which could or could not have been a penalty, so I can’t really give an opinion on that, and I thought one of them was a really good goal.

“I thought the fella did great for the goal, hooking it back from behind him, I thought it was a good goal.

“Obviously being 4-1 up and 4-3 it changes the complexion a little bit, but it didn’t change the complexion as much as people might look at it.”

Luton were put under immense pressure at the end and, having clung on for victory, Still believes it shows how far they have come since he took over.

He said: “They had people that could throw it, they got the ball quick, they played to their strengths, which isn’t easy to play against and I thought that by and large we’d actually dealt with it.

“And when they got their penalty, in my mind I was saying to myself just see this through another few minutes and I think gradually they would have fallen away.

“But the penalty’s given them a lift, fair play to them, and I give them every credit, I really do because they gave it everything they had.

“I think their manager Dale (Belford) put in the press that this was their biggest game of the season, and when people come with that attitude the games are tough and we overcame it so that’s well done us.”

“We’ve played a team that gave everything they had at home and I actually think when I first came here we might not have won that.”

But Still was delighted with the quality of his side’s goal, following two great strikes from midfielders Jonathan Smith and Andy Parry and target man Paul Benson’s brace.

He added: “This is a funny game football where we were talking four or five weeks ago about goals not going in and now we’re scoring goals.

“We’ve shown we can score, the two lads got two terrific goals, two great strikes on Saturday and two what I call typical centre forward goals.

“So I was really pleased with the goals, we’re scoring goals, we’ve shown we can score goals, we’ve shown we can not concede goals and it’s just working hard at trying to tie those things up.”