York City 0, Crawley Town 2: Reds do an Italian job on Scott Lindsey's Minstermen to book a trip to Watford in the Carabao Cup

Colin Kazim-Richards started with seven of the summer signings including Vito Mannone in goal.

Reds had the brighter start to the match as they looked for balls over the top in which they got in behind a few times early on.

Inside the first ten minutes Ade Adeyemo lost the ball out wide under pressure from a York attacker. The ball was then crossed into a dangerous area but was cut out by Kellan Gordon.

Just past the ten minute mark, Colin Kazim-Richards side produced some great build up play which resulted in an opening for Malcolm Ebiowei, but his shot did not phase Alfie McNally.

With 18 minutes on the clock York’s Dipo Akinyemi had his effort blocked well by Priestley Farquharson after Crawley lost the ball inside their own half again - a big wake up call for the Reds.

Zech Medley headed wide from a corner before in the 24th minute of play Crawley opened the scoring through Gianmarco Di Biase after Ebiowei put through Kellan Gordon down the right hand side who crossed the ball into the box and the Italian made no mistake from six yards.

Crawley nearly doubled their lead a few minutes later through their number seven Ebiowei who forced an excellent save from the York keeper to keep the scoreline at 0-1.

A York freekick five minutes into the second half caused trouble for the Crawley defence but it was well kept out by Vito Mannone in the Crawley goal before a goalmouth scramble which was eventually cleared by the Reds defence.

Just moments later the Reds broke down the right hand side through Di Biase who put through Louie Watson who then returned the favour but Di Biase's shot was straight at the York keeper.

One minute shy of the hour mark, substitute Osman Kamara did brilliantly to beat two or three players before playing a central pass into a Crawley midfielder who switched out to Stephen Duke-McKenna.

The winger cut in on his right foot before trying to find the bottom left corner with an effort from just inside the 18 yard box but it was deflected out for a corner.

With 66 minutes on the clock the Minstermen had an effort crash against the crossbar from centre-back Medley following a corner - the home side's best chance of the second half.

York captain Ollie Pearce headed one into the outside of the side netting with ten minutes of normal time left to play

Louie Watson was brought down in the box as he lined up a shot and the referee Thomas Parsons pointed to the spot. Danilo Orsi stepped up to the spot and converted the penalty to double Crawley's lead ... was it ever in doubt?