Crawley Town 3, Accrington Stanley 1 | Luca Ashby-Hammond on his league debut for Reds - video Dailymotion

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Crawley Town beat Accrington Stanley 3-1 at the Broadfield Stadium thanks to two goals from Danilo Orsi and a long range stunner from Will Wright. Here is goalkeeper Luca Ashby-Hammond following his league debut for the club

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00:00 Can you give your thoughts on the win?

00:14 Obviously it's great to win the game, that's the aim of football. We've had a few results

00:19 on the bounce where it's not gone our way. The game was a bit back and forth, but I think

00:24 we managed it well in the second half and did what we needed to do to get the three

00:28 points and to get the rhythm back. I think that's a good result to take from a strong

00:33 Hackington side.

00:34 The strikers will get a lot of the praise, but you had some big parts to play in the

00:38 game, a couple of cracking saves. It must be pleasing for you to have broken your way

00:42 into the side and put in some good performances.

00:44 Yes, playing also is my job to try and keep the ball out of the goal. They didn't take

00:50 very long to score, so that was quite disappointing. Everyone played their part in today's game,

00:55 it was a bit of a slug to get the result, but we all played our part.

00:58 It's good for you to have that competition, you've obviously had to wait a while to make

01:03 your league debut for us. It's a really good goalkeeping department that we've got here,

01:06 isn't it? With yourself, Corey, Rashan and Steve, you all work closely together and it's

01:10 good to have that competition, isn't it?

01:12 Yes, every day the standard is good. Corey's been playing, I've been disappointed to not

01:16 be playing, obviously. But each day I come in and do my best. Like today, I've got no

01:21 machines to play, I just do my best and see what happens.

01:26 You have a big part to play in this sort of system, you're receiving the ball a lot more

01:30 than a goalkeeper normally would, with lots of passes out from the back. Is that something

01:34 you thrive on?

01:35 Yes, I've always been comfortable with the ball. I've been with the squad for a while

01:41 now so I know roughly what the ethos is with the ball and without the ball. I'm comfortable

01:45 doing it.

01:47 Going back to the result, it must be a good feeling. 1-1 at half-time, what was the message

01:53 at half-time from Scott to the players? Because we came back out there and we looked really

01:56 good in that second half.

01:57 I think just acknowledging what the game needed really. I think that they came on to us well

02:02 in terms of their press and stuff like that. I think our build-up isn't what it could have

02:07 been. I think we recognised that we could have gone a little bit longer and put pressure

02:12 on their back line, which eventually... I can't remember how the goals came about, but

02:16 I think the penalty came about from that, didn't it? So I think that worked well and

02:20 we managed it well, I think.

02:23 Thank you.

02:24 You referenced it again, early goal. How hard is it to suddenly switch back on after that?

02:32 Is it quite hard to sort of that early blow?

02:35 Well, letting the goal in at any point is annoying to me and to the team. So obviously

02:41 immediately is not ideal. I think our record at home is quite strong, so I think that,

02:47 as you see, we scored three goals. I think our scoring rate is good most games. I think

02:53 we need to just keep it from going from two to three goals against, which we did. It stayed

03:00 at three-one. So in terms of that, I think we did well to keep them out again.

03:04 Yeah, and playing in front of the crowd of nearly 3,000 and that, were they getting behind

03:08 you? How much did you enjoy that?

03:10 No, it was brilliant. Obviously, I was disappointed that they switched the halves. It was kind

03:14 of strange. But now towards the end, we can really feel the Crawley fans get behind us.

03:20 I think that's what drove us to go and get the other two goals.

03:23 Yeah, and looking at this Crawley squad, how good is it from your point of view? I mean,

03:27 is that everybody's battling for positions. Obviously, you and Corey are battling for

03:31 that number one. There's lots of that throughout all the positions in the squad, isn't there?

03:34 Well, I think if you watch all the games we play in terms of all the cup games, whether

03:38 that's the Pumperjohns or the league or whatever, the standard is always really high. We played

03:43 Charlton and League One team, Exeter and someone else. But we played really well in all those

03:50 games and most of the time the sides are quite chop and change, but the ethos is the same

03:54 no matter who plays. So I think it's a great side in that respect.

03:59 Yeah, and for you, Scott Lindsay, what has he done for your game and how is he helping

04:03 you develop as a player, do you think?

04:05 Well, I think he gives every player the confidence to do what they're good at and to

04:09 play football really and everyone wants, including the goalkeepers, to play football. It's enjoyable

04:14 first and foremost and he gives us the confidence to go and do that on the pitch, which not

04:18 everyone does and everyone's really enjoying that style of play.

04:21 You've got them on today, but obviously there's a good conversation between you and Corey.

04:29 What's your relationship like with him?

04:31 Corey and I have got a great relationship. If you were to watch us, watch the sessions

04:35 day in and day out, there's good banter, there's good standards pushing each other. I think

04:42 we've got a pretty good group, better than most I reckon in the goalkeeping department

04:46 in terms of standard and Corey's a great goalkeeper. So I think you can see the way he plays is

04:53 very good. So the standard in training is very good and that can only be the best, be

04:57 good for both of us really.

04:59 Luke, as we mentioned when you were called into action, it wasn't too many times but

05:10 you made some cracking saves. How much confidence does that fill you as a goalkeeper, especially

05:15 going into a tough game next week against Barrow?

05:17 Yeah, I like to make saves, it's enjoyable to make a save. I made some saves against

05:24 Notts County which I was pleased with. So I came into this game with confidence. Obviously

05:29 they were on top but they had some pressure coming towards us in the first half so there

05:34 had to be a lot from the first minute or two minutes, whatever it was. So yeah, I just

05:40 try and take each action as it comes and then deal with the next one.

05:43 You mentioned how the game was a little bit sluggish but you still came out on top. How

05:48 crucial is it, okay, last few league games you played really well but haven't quite got

05:54 the result. It's good that it went your way today. So how crucial is it that you can just

05:59 slug or grind out a result?

06:00 Yeah, I think if you watch the start of the season we played, and we still do play, unbelievable

06:05 football. Sometimes games need different approaches and this one was one of those games and we

06:12 showed that we can do both sides of the game. When it needs an ugly-ish way to win we do

06:20 it and we kept them at bay and we managed to get the three goals we like to score three

06:25 goals and stuff like that. So yeah, we did well in that respect.

06:29 Great, cheers Vika, thank you.

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