Watching Saturday’s game once was bad enough, but Tom Cleverley viewed it three more times before he went to bed.

The Hornets head coach started his inquest into what happened at Kenilworth Road with more than four hours of sitting through it all again, before starting the reparation work at the training ground the next morning.

“Straight after the match I watched the game three times, and didn’t get much sleep,” he said.

“We addressed the Luton game in a meeting we had on Sunday morning, which clearly showed where we fell short.

“Then we trained hard towards putting it right at Leeds.

“For me, we’re lucky the next game comes so soon.”

Cleverley’s video nasty session on Saturday evening led to a summary which many fans would concur with.

“When I watched the game again you digest it as a coach from a structural point of view, and was there anything tactically we got wrong, or in terms of personnel,” he explained.

“Then you watch it again from the perspective of the basics of football that I talk about.

“At Norwich we possibly went too aggressively on the press against a good team.

“At Preston I possibly picked the wrong team.

“After watching it again, at Luton I don’t have many excuses for the players and we fell short on all the basics.”

Cleverley didn’t go as far as suggesting his players played in a manner that suggested they didn’t care.

“It wasn’t a case of the players not caring, it was one set of players rising to the challenge and the occasion, and one that shied away from it all a little bit.

“It’s certainly not a lack of caring.

“I saw how we responded to losing two goals at Millwall and sticking our chests out to go and get a winner.

“I see us 1-0 down against Middlesbrough who, with Leeds, are the best in-possession team in the division, and rather than shy away from that challenge we turned it round.

“I see every day on the training pitch a group of players that care.

“But on Saturday we just did not have enough that rose to the challenge.”

Was it the physicality of Luton that enabled them to dominate the Hornets so easily?

“When we went to Millwall we didn’t let them be as physical as they would normally be,” Cleverley pointed out.

“You look at our team, and the height, the strength, the experience – sometimes it just takes three or four out of the 11 to not rise to the challenge and the whole team suffers like we did on Saturday.”