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HAT TERS SPOIL SABRI’S DEBUT

MIDWEEK ROUND-UP
By John Lyons

KEY MOMENT: Luton’s Elijah Adebayo, left, and his team-mates celebrate his winner and, Inset, new Cardiff manager Sabri Lamouchi
PICTURE: Alamy

SABRI Lamouchi witnessed the size of the task ahead of him at Cardiff as he kicked off his reign with a late defeat at high-flying Luton.
It looked as though the Frenchman would earn a point from his first match in charge when keeper Ryan Allsop saved Elijah Adebayo’s 72nd-minute penalty after Cedric Kipre’s handball.
However, Adebayo had the last laugh when he netted the only goal of...

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