Former Leeds United midfielder Izzy Brown is back playing regularly and doing well at newly-promoted Luton Town.
The 22-year old has suffered a hugely frustrating couple of years, after making waves as a teenager in Huddersfield Town’s promotion to the Premier League in 2017.
After making his debut for West Brom at the age of 16 back in 2013, becoming the second-youngest debutant in Premier League history, he subsequently joined the Chelsea and impressed in loan spells at Vitesse and Rotherham before doing especially well for David Wagner’s Terriers.
But after being given an opportunity at a Premier League club, Brighton & Hove Albion, it’s been a long road to recovery for Brown after he suffered a horror anterior cruciate ligament injury in January 2018.
He joined Leeds that summer and continued his rehab, but went over a year without any first-team football, eventually recovering to turn out for Carlos Corberan’s Under-23s, but only made a couple of short cameo appearances for Marcelo Bielsa’s senior side.
Something of interest: No Championship player has registered more assists than Izzy Brown this season (5). All 5 have come in his last 5 league starts for Luton. He's also created 29 chances, Mateusz Klich is the only Leeds player to have managed more (32) in 2019/20. pic.twitter.com/1qBkQ0Sr05
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But he’s registering some very impressive stats at Luton in his first run of regular first-team football in over two years. He’s averaging an assist a game from his last five starts. With a total of five, he’s the Championship’s joint assist-provider.
There are also only two players that average more key passes (the final pass before a team-mate takes a shot) per game than the Luton man in the Championship - Reading midfielder John Swift, averaging 3.5, and Leeds’ Pablo Hernandez, averaging 2.8. Brown averages 2.6 key passes per game.
Luton currently sit 19th in the Championship table, six points above the relegation zone, but have lost three of their last four matches. Leeds play the Hatters after the next international break, travelling down to Kenilworth Road on Saturday 23rd November.
The Whites last played there in 2016, recording a 1-0 win in the League Cup, but haven’t faced them in a league match since the 2007-08 League One season, after both sides were relegated from the second tier that summer.
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