Following the 1-1 draw at Northampton Town, Crawley Town boss Colin Kazim-Richards said he and his coaching staff had too work on solutions for limiting unforced errors.

The Reds boss was frustrated at the the goal they conceded after a quick throw-in from the Cobblers’ led to Nathan Opoku’s goal.

It followed errors against Bristol Rovers than saw them win 2-0 at the Broadfield Stadium on Saturday.

After Tuesday night, Kazim-Richards said: “It is frustrating because we know how good we can be, but we have to limit the unforced errors, the switching off for one second because it seems when we do that, we get punished and then we have to work really hard to score and control the game.

"We have to limit that down, so it's something that as a coaching team we're going to have to put in place. We're going to have to come up with solutions for that.”

And in the build-up to the trip to Accrington we asked how they go about addressing that, given unforced errors are in-the-moment incidents.

"Yes, they are in-the-moment things, but sometimes you make an unforced error where you're not really believing in what you're doing,” he said.

"I think it's about reasserting and reinforcing to keep doing it, but also in training, push past your limit of when you're tired or switching off as the ball goes out or switching off as there's a foul. There's loads of ways we can do it and we will be pushing it again.

Northampton Town's Nathan Opoku celebrates after scoring against Crawley Town. (Photo by Pete Norton/Getty Images)

placeholder image — Northampton Town's Nathan Opoku celebrates after scoring against Crawley Town. (Photo by Pete Norton/Getty Images)

“I like to work through tiredness in terms of sometimes players become doing things just in the motion. I don't like training to be like that. I like training to be pushed like it's a game.”

The Reds boss believe they did better on Tuesday than they did on the Saturday against Bristol Rovers but says his players’ reaction has to be better after making them.

He said: “We had to do better than that on Tuesday. We did limit the unforced errors and we were way better compared to Bristol, but we got punished for the one that we didn't switch on for. Those are the ones we have to get better at. Yes, unforced errors are in the moment, but then our reaction to it has to be better.

“Our reaction to understanding that it's an unforced error has to be better. And then we have to also, when we make that unforced error and we do recover again, is to keep doing the things that we want to do and don't go within yourself. I think sometimes when you come out of a bad relationship, you go into a new one that is, in theory, is good.

“You tend to have trouble from the last relationship. I think sometimes, you know, we have those little remembrance. We remember how it felt making a mistake.”

And Kazim-Richards used Dion Pereira as an example of how to react after making an error. “Dion Pereira came on in his first touch, he gave the boys a counter-attack, right? No problem.

“We recovered it, we go. And Dion had the mindset to be able to go and score and make a massive impact on the game. I don't know if Dion Pereira last year does that.

“And that's not me here sitting to you saying, ‘oh my God, look at me’. That's not that.

“It's just what we're trying to enforce and reinforce and understand. We are going to make mistakes. The way we are playing, we are going to make mistakes, right? Limit that, but also understand we're going to make mistakes.

Get the ball back, win the ball back, get your blocks and we go again, you know? So it's a credit to him and it's a credit to what we're installing here.”