Leadership not the issue - Wilshere

Luton Town boss Jack Wilshere insists he has enough "leaders" in his squad despite back-to-back defeats which have checked their push for a play-off spot.

The Hatters were beaten at Huddersfield Town on Tuesday evening, their second consecutive single-goal defeat, and have only taken one point from their last three games.

"We weren't good enough - it's hard to take," former England midfielder Wilshere told BBC Three Counties Radio.

"I don't think it's a leadership problem, especially in the playing group. Football is different now to when I played, demanding a different type of leader - we have a leader like that in Kal (Naismith), he's that guy, it's a quality thing.

"We don't trust ourselves enough to risk the ball in the final third which you have to do. We didn't create enough clear-cut opportunities. We have to be better - when we did create those moments, there weren't enough bodies in the box."

Luton are now ninth in League One, six points adrift of Huddersfield who are sixth following Ryan Ledson's winner, scored from his own half.

"It's on me - it's my job to make the players better, to make sure they know how to create those clear-cut opportunities," Wilshere added.

"There's 18 games left, I want to see more ambition, I want to see us believe in that ambition, away from home especially."