It was like a different team were on the pitch! Balagizi and Nichols were simply superb today. However shoutout to the defence with Johnson and Ransom especially who defended very well.
Will the real Crawley Town please stand up. Both teams had their moments when they might have scored more, but I was really impressed with the way Crawley pressed and pressured Fulham into errors. Tip-tap at the back was noticeably absent this evening, though there was decent interplay farther up the pitch. The change of style seemed to suit the team. I'm surprised we only received one yellow for timewasting as a few of them were at it. Great effort, now can we please try that in league games?
So, I’m still not in the Betsy out camp. Tonight, to a man I thought we were incredible.
Mixed the play up superbly, some nice controlled passing AND some lovely balls in to the channels.
Nichols and Nads ran their socks off, shame Nads couldn’t finish that as it would have been goal of the season. The lad Balagizi looks what he is, a class act that belongs in a higher division……..and Ransom…..what a player he is. I thought he was incredible. Big shout out to the East stand, was proper bouncing tonight!!!
Superb work rate, ditch tippy tap football and we look perform and were class. By far better team won. By far. Fantastic home support silenced Fulham throughout. Words cannot describe how brilliant we were tonight. Buzzing.
This was my first game this season and for the life of me, I don’t understand how we’ve lost any games up to now!
Amazing work winning possession in their 3rd and jumping on any pass Fulham tried to make into midfield. Nichols and Balagizi doing so well here. I think we played almost all the 1st half in their half with Travis and Ransom sweeping up the few balls they put in behind us.
I could go on because everyone was top drawer tonight and made those Fulham players look 2nd rate. None of those players would be getting in this Crawley side on that performance!
Wow! Before I get too excited let me put everyone back in their place, it’s one performance and we have a long season ahead! But I just find it hard how a team can play like that 3 days after the shit show put out at the weekend, it’s remarkable. We were incredible tonight, man for man we bettered them and had quality all over the pitch. I can’t think of a single player that In my mind could have improved on their performance, other than nadesan and his finishing but that would be exceptionally critical based on his overall performance. Tonight will live long in the memory. We have been fortunate to have a number of scalps over the past few years but this tops them all from a performance level (only beats Leeds because we weren’t in the ground). The players and staff need to take so much from tonight, this could really kickstart our season from a tactical perspective. Let’s hope so