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Player Profile: Carlton Morris – Impressive all-rounder adds goals to graft…

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The LeaguePaper Team
19 March 2023

By Chris Dunlavy

Carlton Morris has always been a grafter. Now, the in-form Luton striker is proving he’s a goalscorer too.
Signed from Barnsley last summer for a club record £2m, the 27-year-old notched his 15th goal of the season to earn the high-flying Hatters victory at Sheffield United last weekend and then added his 16th with the only goal at home against Bristol City in midweek.
With five assists, he was, pre-weekend, also one of just four players (alongside Middlesbrough’s Chuba Akpom, Coventry’s Viktor Gyokeres and Burnley’s Nathan Tella) to have registered 20 or more goal contrib...

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