'We can't be a team that just turns up for the cameras', says Crawley Town boss after 'flat' display against Accrington Stanley

Kabby Tshimanga got the equaliser after Everton loanee Isaac Heath gave the visitors a half time lead in a game played in atrocious conditions due to heavy rain.

But Reds did not hit the levels they did away at Gillingham last week and Lindsey said his side were ‘flat’ and had a message for his players in the post-match press conference.

When asked if he could put his finger on why it was so flat, he said: “I can put my finger on it. It's mentality. That's what it is, professionalism and mentality. To churn them out week in, week out. It's one thing I said in the meeting this morning, was don't be the team that can turn up for the cameras at Gillingham away.

“And then when we play at Accrington on a real wet and horrible afternoon at home, we don't turn up. Don't be that. But then we were.

“It's definitely the mentality. Without a doubt, we have to find a way of making sure that we have that consistency within our performances every week. It can't just be when the cameras are there.

“It can't be just when we're playing at a big stadium or when we're playing in a game where the feeling's great at home and the weather's nice. You've got to do it every week. The pleasing thing for me today was the second half performance.”

And on the performance, Lindsey said: “Flat, I thought it was really flat today in every manner. I did think that we showed an improvement in the second half and looked like we wanted to try and get back in it and win it. But yeah, I just thought we played with a little bit of lack of personality today.

“It didn't look like we had the same kind of guile and energy and movement and just looked flat.”

Before the game Lindsey said he thought Accrington would be the toughest game out of Gillingham and Salford games – and so far it looks like that will right with just Salford to come in that block of three games. "Listen, there's nothing kind of razzmatazz about them, but they're very hard working and they're really difficult to break down,” said Lindsey.

“They got their goal when we didn't get our press right at the top of the pitch. We looked all over the place at the back of the pitch and they made it hard for us then. They made it hard for us, but I do think that we showed a little bit more character in the second half.”

Reds travel to Salford on Saturday before a ten-day break.