Crawley Town boss wants to win, but says performances are more important than results at this stage

The 38-year-old have lost both his opening games in charge of the Reds, losing 1-0 away at Wycombe on Saturday and 4-3 in the EFL Trophy against AFC Wimbledon on Tuesday.

But it is a time of transition for Elliot and his side. We have already seen minor changes to the way Crawley are playing but Elliot knows it’s not going to happen overnight.

Following the Dons game, we asked him if at this stage if performances were more important than results. “Definitely. But listen, you want to win every game,” he said.

“Let's not try and turn it into ‘I don't care about results’. But I think this team will prove that improved performances will gain results.

"I don’t think we will be a team that sits in a low block of 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 and transition, we’re a team that wants to dominate the ball, we want to play football, we want to play attacking football and we give our attacking players the best option to create as much carnage as possible.

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“And we have so many players that can do that. And you know what? For my personality and how I want the team to be, I couldn't do any other way. Live by the sword, die by the sword and if you lose last minute like we did tonight but the lads showed me everything going forward and they gave everything they could, then I can take that because what we can do is show them, we can work on it, and we can work backwards, and we can improve little by little.

“But I think the big message is, it's not going to be fixed in a couple of days and we win Saturday and we win every game. We are going to try and win Saturday but we are going to do it our way and make sure we stick to it.

“I think the good thing with this squad is options in terms of if one dynamic is not working, you can at least be a bit fluid and try another one.”