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Famara Diedhou (left) became Bristol City's ninth different scorer in a row at Ashton Gate with his penalty

Bristol City bounced back from a run of four straight defeats with a comfortable win over struggling Luton.

Marley Watkins, on his first appearance since 10 November, opened the scoring after just four minutes, nodding in Niclas Eliasson's cross.

Famara Diedhou doubled the lead from the penalty spot before half-time, after Kazenga LuaLua was penalised for a foul on Jack Hunt.

And Hunt, who earlier cleared a rare Luton chance off the line, created City's third, flicked in by Andreas Weimann.

Defeat for the Robins would have marked their longest losing streak in the league since their run of eight straight losses in late 2016 and early 2017.

But they never looked in danger of succumbing to Graeme Jones' Hatters from the moment Watkins converted Eliasson's delivery.

Luton keeper James Shea kept out first-half efforts from Josh Brownhill and Watkins, but his side could not offer a similar threat at the other end.

The Hatters remain in trouble following an eighth straight away league defeat.

Bristol City boss Lee Johnson told BBC Radio Bristol:

"From bottom to top in terms of defensive performance, today was outstanding and it gave us the platform if you like to break and to look really dangerous on the counter.

"The team brain is important. You can't afford one player (to be) out of sync. When we do play with that one brain as a team I think we're really difficult to play against.

"I'm sure one or two will come in with a bit of quality (in the January transfer window) and propel us to where we want to be."

Luton Town manager Graeme Jones told BBC Three Counties Radio:

"I'm disappointed we got off to a really difficult start. You need to show resistance and resilience to see out of those moments and to stay in the game and have a chance.

"We made it a mountain to climb from minute one.

"Maybe we were a bit short, we've got an honest group of players who today couldn't raise a gallop and couldn't fight a corner."