Burnley begin Championship life again with Luton win

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Burnley begin Championship life again with Luton win

Burnley have marked their return to the Championship with a deserved 4-1 win against Luton Town as Scott Parker opened his tenure with an emphatic victory at Kenilworth Road.

Luton finished above their visitors in last season’s Premier League relegation zone but were second best throughout as they began life back outside English football’s top flight.

The Hatters were undone by first-half goals from Josh Brownhill and Wilson Odobert as Burnley asserted their dominance.

Tahith Chong pulled one back shortly after the break but any hope home supporters had of a fightback were promptly extinguished as Dara O’Shea headed in from a corner before Vitinho lashed in a fourth to hand Parker the perfect start.

His side had taken the lead after six minutes and the goal owed to the vision and passing of debutant Lucas Pires. The left-back, a summer signing from Brazilian side Santos, collected a square ball from Odobert inside his own half, scanned ahead and dinked a weighted pass through for the onrushing Brownhill, who took a touch to lose Zack Nelson then swept a finish between the legs of Thomas Kaminski.

Burnley’s second was almost a carbon copy of the opener and soon after the break they ought to have been out of sight before Alfie Doughty stayed onside to head the ball back across goal from a deep cross and Chong stole in unmarked to tap in for what had looked an unlikely lifeline.

It would be whipped away as suddenly as it came, and Luton had their own defensive hesitancy to blame. In the 72nd minute, O’Shea rose to meet a floated corner from Pires and neither Joe Johnson nor Reuell Walters were alert enough to challenge as the defender’s header dropped into the net beyond Kaminski.

Vitinho crashed home Burnley’s fourth late on as the ground began to empty, exploiting the gaps left as Luton pushed up in vain to search for a way back.

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