Luton Town forward Chiedozie Ogbene felt his side struggled to cope with Sheffield United’s approach at the weekend.
The Blades deferred possession to Luton in the game, who were at home and the favorites.
Given they are usually underdogs in Premier League games, Ogbene admitted the mentality shift was tough to handle.
Speaking days after the defeat, he said: “Funny enough, at the start of the season we weren’t thinking that (being favorites). But I think it’s good for us to learn from this because if we stay in this division, the newly promoted teams will probably do this to us and we need to know how to break it down.
“Or if we start winning games, teams might fear us and they might try to hold a low block, so we still need to play with intensity. Even though they let you have the ball, you have to do something with the ball and not just keep it as that’s the first time we got the kind of respect or this kind of time on the ball. We’re not used to it, we just need to pick it up again
“It’s good as when we look at the clips, now can start picking moments where we could maybe be a threat. Now we can watch it again and say if this happens again, this is what we can do differently, because I believe there will be teams who come here and try to upset us.
“So I’m happy it happened now rather than later on in the season when we need to win games and don’t know what to do. Now we know what teams can do to us here, we just need to find ways to break it down, break it down with tempo, and that’s what I think we lacked, tempo.”
