Crawley Town column: Bring on the festive fixtures!
Reds mid season break is over time for the festive fixtures to begin.
After ten days away from action due to our non involvement in the FA Cup last weekend (thanks Borehamwood!) we have hopefully had time to recharged the batteries ahead of a busy run of fixtures ahead. It was clear from some of the players social media posts, that a few of them took the chance to visit warmer climates for a few days, and why not. As for the next 4 weeks it’s going to be flat out for Scott Lindsey’s squad.
By the time this goes to print, we will have played at Bromley on Tuesday night, where fingers crossed we have got a result. The cruel ending to the Salford game the other week hurt us dearly. It was a crazy minute of football by us. Throwing away leads so late in games does absolutely nothing for our precarious position in the league. You can assume that lessons will have been learnt. The table doesn’t lie and we sit just one point off the drop zone. Now is the time to start climbing the table, and there is no better time to do it than over the Christmas period where games come thick and fast. If we can string a few wins together it will get us moving in the right direction. It’s been an annoying season to date, where performances just haven’t given us the points we should have collected. It’s hard to put a finger on it, but certainly taking our chances in front of goal in games has been our biggest challenge up to now. Although scoring three goals in Manchester last time out should have been enough to see us win, unfortunately it wasn’t to be as I’ve touched on above.
With January around the corner and the transfer window set to open, I’m sure we will be doing our best to bolster the squad. Injuries and suspensions have certainly affected our consistency as a team. With the injury list way too long for Scott’s liking. Everyone who’s available is going to get game time, over the next few weeks as the games come thick and fast over Christmas.
Let’s just hope when we get to early January we will be in a much better position in terms of league placement. I have absolute faith that this will be the case. At times we look a brilliant footballing team. Certainly one that shouldn’t be stuttering at the bottom of League Two.