With the three points, Luton climbs onto safe ground. However, only one point separates Everton, who admittedly have played one more game.
It took just 18 seconds for Adebayo to send the hosts into the lead. And the home crowd had barely finished cheering before Chiedozie Ogbene doubled the lead one minute and 59 seconds later.
This left Luton with a 2-0 lead just two minutes and 17 seconds into the match. according to choose only Leicester have been quicker to secure a 2-0 lead in the Premier League. They scored twice in less than two minutes against Derby in April 1998.
Three minutes before half-time, things got worse for the visitors when Adebayo scored his second goal of the night, before completing his hat-trick eleven minutes into the second half.
The hat-trick was Luton’s first at the top level since Denmark’s Lars Elstrup scored three goals against Norwich in September 1990.
Brighton had to start with a b-characterised eleven. Ansu Fati, Joël Veltman, Julio Enciso, Kauro Mitoma and Solly March are out with injuries, while Simon Adingra is with Ivory Coast in the African Championship.
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