Crawley Town 1 Stockport County 1 ( Football League 2 ) Monday 18 March 2024
County flattered to deceive against Crawley Town at the Broadfield Stadium tonight allowing their opponents to nick a late goal and a share of the points that had looked nobbut a pipe dream up until then for the Sussex outfit. This was extremely disappointing as the blues had nullified everything Crawley had to offer and shown plenty themselves in the first half, if with a familiar absence of razor-sharp finishing where it mattered. Then, having established the required bridgehead at 0-0 at half time, County emerged looking likely to turn their opponents over in the second 45, emphasised precisely when Kane`s inch perfect corner ( won by Richards) saw Sarsevic rise beyond the far post to head home through a crowd of players to put the blues 1-0 up. Sadly Richards had to be substituted at that point, having taken a knock earlier- he was replaced by Madden so that was like for like but that could not be said for at least one of the later subbings that had the effect of unde