Crawley Town play at home against Bradford City in the 2020/21 EFL League 2, Tuesday 15th December 7:45 pm kick off. Please see Official club Website where you can watch this match on ifollow (if you are not attending in person, where you are strongly advised to check admission availability c/o official club website in advance). Please keep all discussion about the match to this thread. Thank you and come on you Reds.
Bradford were under the cosh from the start, But scored from their only chance on 11 mins. Then conceded by an O.G on 25 mins. Game is virtually all Crawley but Bradford carry threats.
FT 1-1. Crawley had lots of the ball, but struggled to break down a dogged Bradford. Bradford had a few chances to win it, but we deserved at least a point and should have had all 3, but we huffed and puffed out there.
Post by broadfielddave on Dec 15, 2020 21:53:29 GMT
Not a great showing that. Again, seems very odd that we play with three centre backs and still can't defend. Powell and Hessenthaler both seemed to struggle to keep any control of the game, and Watters got no service at all until the final 10 mins. Davies and Tsaroulla were probably our two best players. Bringing Nadderz on again made us so much more dangerous. Why we're not starting the three of them, especially at home, I'll never know.
Shame we couldn't win, but usually you need to have at least one shot on target (not always, though). Bradford seemed like a thoroughly unlikable bunch. One of their O'Connor's in particular deserved a slap. Yet another appalling referee performance as well. Almost certainly should have had one, if not two penalties.
Yet more dropped points at home to a team near the bottom, and if it hadn't been for the red card on Saturday, that possibly would have been more still. We really need to learn how to impose ourselves on games, rather than waiting for the opposition to have quiet moments and hoping we can nick something.
Still, says a lot that a team like Bradford came to Crawley and were time wasting for a draw from 65 minutes on. Onto the next one.
Not a great showing that. Again, seems very odd that we play with three centre backs and still can't defend. Powell and Hessenthaler both seemed to struggle to keep any control of the game, and Watters got no service at all until the final 10 mins. Davies and Tsaroulla were probably our two best players. Bringing Nadderz on again made us so much more dangerous. Why we're not starting the three of them, especially at home, I'll never know.
Shame we couldn't win, but usually you need to have at least one shot on target (not always, though). Bradford seemed like a thoroughly unlikable bunch. One of their O'Connor's in particular deserved a slap. Yet another appalling referee performance as well. Almost certainly should have had one, if not two penalties.
Yet more dropped points at home to a team near the bottom, and if it hadn't been for the red card on Saturday, that possibly would have been more still. We really need to learn how to impose ourselves on games, rather than waiting for the opposition to have quiet moments and hoping we can nick something.
Still, says a lot that a team like Bradford came to Crawley and were time wasting for a draw from 65 minutes on. Onto the next one.
Agree mate said the same thing we have 5 defenders on the pitch and still concede crap goals. Nadesan should have started and Ferguson to his credit did alright when he came on. lack of pace and movement in midfield second half. However if it wasn’t for Morris second half we could easily have lost that.
We lose the ball by the edge of their penalty box and Morris has to get us out of jail. It happens a lot but in this game it was very noticeable. If we are going to play with two playmakers in Powell and Matthews we need to get Hessenthaler to sit and stick in the middle.
A point while being crap is the only positive we can take from this game.