Crawley Town play at home against Stevenage in a league 2 match in the 2022/23 season, Saturday 1st October 15:00 kick off. Please keep all discussion about the match to this thread. Thank you and come on you Reds.
15min to KO doesnt look that busy here (Broadfield stadium)...do I need a Three Bridges matchday thread? Lets hope we can do the double for the town today. I wonder if the train strike has lowered the away attendance from Stevenage fans. Good luck Bridges and COYR.
BW stand chanting for Evans and Betsy to go. Glimmers of hope but Reds appear to be playing on the break. Dread think what score be if didnt have Lynch! HT Reds 0 Stevenage 1
Lynch's defensive header went backwards to their player who then played Roberts through. Not sure Lynch has been on top form been beaten too easily to often. To be fair the whole defensive line has been shocking. Keeper kicking very poor. Fellows good, Nichols showing flashes and same Tsaroulla. Overall Stevenage stronger player for player and we can't keep the ball.
Looked much better in second half, won lots more second balls and competed better physically. Stevenage barely created anything. We got some good crosses in and used the wings well but we never looked like scoring anything in the air, don't think the wide men seemed to realise that. Defence looked a lot more solid and lynch brought the ball out the defence well. 3 subs brought on did nothing and we looked far less effective when Nads, Lynch and Hess went off, but that could be due to penalty which knocked the stuffing out of them.
Thought we were as good in the second half as we were poor in the first. Obviously it doesn’t solve anything tho. I couldn’t see Stevenage scoring except from a pen
Only my second game this season so far and I feel for the team after that sucker punch.
Second half was 1 way traffic and support built up to a good level in the East stand. Really felt like a win was coming before the penalty awarded from what was probably only the second time they got in our box in the second half.
The only thing I’d say is that sometimes the players need to recognise that crossing head height is not working and should have tried to change that/mix it up some more. Showed a lot of character but ultimately still come up short.