FA Cup: Crawley Town 0-1 Tranmere Rovers RECAP - Crawley can’t make dominance count as they bow out of cup in first round
The Reds come into the tie struggling for form, with four straight defeats to their name, but opponents Tranmere Rovers are without a win in their last three games.
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FA Cup LIVE: Crawley vs Tranmere
Key Events
- Crawley Town host Tranmere Rovers in the first round of the FA Cup at The People’s Pension Stadium
- Crawley come into the tie struggling for form, with four straight defeats to their name, but opponents Tranmere Rovers are without a win in their last three games.
- Tranmere reached round three of last year's competition while Crawley reached round four.
- John Yems makes five changes, with Ashley Nadesan, Ludwig Francillette, Jack Payne, Archie Davies and Tom Dallison coming in
Full-time: Crawley 0-1 Tranmere
The referee blows the full-time whistle.
Harsh result on Crawley, whose FA Cup dream is over before it really started.
That’s five defeats in a row now in all competitions.
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Glenn Morris is playing as a midfielder!
The veteran keeper has just won another last-minute free-kick for Crawley as the tried to take on his man. Brilliant stuff.
Bansal-McNulty wins a foul about 35 yards from goal after a powerful run.
Last chance saloon. Get the ball in the box and hope.
It comes to nothing. Time up?
Tony Craig is named the sponsors’ man of the match. He’s not had a huge amount to do but Crawley are still behind somehow.
Five minutes have been added on.
(89) Bansal-McNulty put in a cross which the keeper just about claims at the second time of asking.
It came after good work from Francillette, who has impressed today.
Crawley still piling on the pressure and now they have a corner.
Nadesan won it but he could have done better, after he struggled to get the ball out his feet initially, in space.
(74) So close again for Crawley!
The keeper makes a brilliant save to deny Appiah.
It was from point-black range after a wicked Frost corner.
(71) Frost straight into the action and whips in a dangerous looking cross which Appiah can’t quite get on the end of.
That’s been the story of Crawley’s afternoon, so far.
Double substitution
Will Ferry and Tyler Frost come on for Jack Powell and Archie Davies.
A change in formation with 20 minutes to go.
A lovely turn by Jack Powell sets Crawley off on another attack. The ball is played into Appiah in space but he turns into danger and loses it. Into the final 25 minutes.
(58) Ross Doohan, in the Tranmere goal, comes out to collect the ball, under pressure from Nadesan, after yet another Davies cross.
(57) Jack Powell fires a shot just wide of the target.
It came after some good hold up play by Tom Nichols, who was found by a brilliant Nadesan knock-on.
Nichols could have perhaps played the ball back to Nadesan a bit earlier.
(55) Crawley continue to look dangerous from the wide areas but the final ball still isn’t there.
Another heavy cross from Archie Davies doesn’t find a man.