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View from the Press Box: Crawley Town lose 4-1 at Reading
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19/10/2024
Crawley Town lost 4-1 at Reading in League One. Mark Dunford gives his view of the day from arriving at the Select Car Leasing Stadium to interviewing Roby Elliot and Bradley Ibrahim after the game.
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Hi there, Mark Dunford here at the Select Car Leasing Stadium. I've just turned up
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at Reading for the 12.30 kickoff between Reading and Crawley Town and this is my
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view for the afternoon and it's not very high up. Dugouts down there. It'll be a really
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good game today. I'm looking for Crawley to get their first win under new manager
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Rob Elliott and their first win since they beat Cambridge away in August so a
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big game for Crawley. Reading struggling themselves in 17th. They've played 9-1-4,
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drawn 1, lost 4 whereas Crawley played 10-1-2, drawn 1, lost 7. So really looking
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for pick up three points today. Rob Elliott has been impressed with how
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Reading are playing this year. He thinks they've got dangers in attack on the
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wide men but believes they play a similar way to Crawley do. So Crawley
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we've seen some good signs from them recently with scoring goals but it's the
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defensive area where they need to improve and Rob Elliott told us this
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week that they've been working hard on set pieces which was a big weakness
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against Shrewsbury when they lost 5-3 last week. So fingers crossed Crawley can
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get three points today or get something out of the game. So here's the press area
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at Reading Football Club. Lots of seats. Obviously legacy from Premier League days.
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How you doing? Crawley players are here on the pitch having a look around with Rob Elliott.
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Jay Williams there, not in the matchday kit obviously because he is suspended
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after picking up five yellow cards. There's Tom Allman, Barry Munn. Crawley
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media guys. There's Sam, there's Ant, Gary and Ken down there.
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So yeah, looking forward to a good game.
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So here's the team news. We've got Max Anderson coming in, Jeremy Kelly coming
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in. Yeah, good to see Charlie Barker getting a start again. Needed after Josh
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Finn sending off but he's been playing really well Charlie Barker.
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So yeah, an interesting lineup. Hopefully they can do something against this
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Reading side who are 17th on the table.
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So yeah, I've got my food ready to go. Decent selection of sandwiches and wraps
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and cookies. So back to my seat and get ready for the game.
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So a 4-1 defeat for Crawley at Reading here. An immensely frustrating day. So many good
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elements to the play. Some really good start to the second half.
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But goal line clearances, good save by David Button in the Reading goal. But
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Crawley just weren't ruthless whereas Reading were. When they had their
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chances they took them. We felt Reading were there for the take in today and
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certainly after the first half. And Crawley just did not take advantage of
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their chances. So yeah, poor result, poor one. It'll be interesting to see what
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Rod Elliott has to say.
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Yeah, it does. I think, let's be honest with you, I'd rather have those stats. I haven't seen them
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clearly but I think we had 20 shots and 65% possession of that. The good thing is
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we're converting possession into chances. So that's a positive. I think
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that's definitely been a positive since I've come in. We need to be more clinical
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but we'll get better at that because the lads have taken on new information, still
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things need to get better at. But no, that's really positive. But obviously
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the biggest stat is the scoreline.
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Yeah, looking at the stats, Crawley absolutely dominated everything today from possession to chances and goals.
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It's just frustrating that you can't quite get over the line at the moment. What do you think it is?
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Is it just waiting for it to click?
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I feel like obviously a new manager, it just takes time. I think just us finding each other, just a little bit more
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composure in the final third. I think we're so close for it to finally gel,
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click like you said. Yeah, we're really close to it happening.
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