'Invisible brick wall'  - Crawley Town boss Scott Lindsey bemoans missed chances in Barrow defeat - video Dailymotion

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Crawley Town lost 2-1 at home to Barrow in League Two. Here is Scott Lindsey's full post-match press conference

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00:00Straight afternoon here at the Botford Stadium, what was your take on the game?

00:04Two different halves, I think that we wasn't present in the first half, we didn't turn up.

00:13In the second half we were really good, missed some massive chances to draw the game if not win it.

00:23But it's easy playing, catch up when you're 2-0 down, I think it's easy.

00:29I think that we wasn't present in the first half at all, I thought we were too slow with the ball.

00:35We worked on their defensive shape all week about how they'd block up and one thing I said,

00:43literally before they went out was to move the ball really quickly, but we were so slow with the ball.

00:52And then it kind of eats into what they want to do, they want to slow things down,

00:56they want to take their time with goal kicks, they want to take their time with throw-ins and all that,

00:59and then we're slow with the ball, so then it becomes a frustrating afternoon for everybody watching.

01:04And then obviously the goals are just so poor.

01:10And then I say a few choice words at half-time, wherever we go, second half we look brilliant, second half.

01:16And I've just said to the players, we can't win a game of football at this level playing half a game,

01:20you're just not going to win anything, you've got to play for 90 minutes, if not 95, 96, sometimes longer.

01:29And we just wasn't present in the first half, we were just out there, just passing it from left to right.

01:36We had no movement, no guile, no want-willing determination to try and score or create.

01:44I thought Harry Forster, when he'd come on, looked a bright spark, he was the only player for me.

01:50Yeah, just wasted half a game.

01:53Is there anything you can sort of put the slow start down to, because as you say, you prepare a week,

01:58and then when it comes to the match, that's the first thing you want to see, isn't it?

02:01But do you think it was a lack of confidence based on last week's result?

02:04Nothing to do with confidence, I think it's to do with the fact that they blocked in really deep,

02:08and defensively they looked solid.

02:14Sometimes when that happens, you have to move the ball quicker, and we were just too slow with it.

02:19We didn't have, I showed a clip at half-time of an action, we had the ball for, I don't know, maybe 20 passes,

02:27but within that 20 passes, there wasn't one player making a run forward.

02:32It was just play sideways, backwards, back in, sideways, backwards, back in,

02:37and then we played round, and then everybody coming towards the ball and not running the other way,

02:42and trying to disrupt their back line.

02:44It was just safe football, and when you're playing safe football,

02:48you're not going to score goals, you've got to risk one or two.

02:51And then what happens is, you end up playing so pedestrian,

02:54and then you end up forcing one, because the crowd kind of feel it,

02:58that we've got to do something, then we force one,

03:00the keeper comes and claims it, and then we ain't got the ball again for five or six minutes.

03:03And that's how I felt the first half went.

03:06Second half, we were completely in charge of the game,

03:08but it's difficult breaking that down, a Barra team,

03:14you know, when you're nil-nil, no matter what, two-nil down.

03:16So we give ourselves too much of a mountain to climb.

03:19Yeah, you mentioned it already, but I suppose the frustration that you build

03:22is when you consider the amount of chances we had in the second half,

03:25as you say, to not only equalise, but potentially win the game on another day

03:27that we'd probably walk away with four or five goals, don't we?

03:31Yeah, but I'm sick of saying that, certainly this season.

03:36I don't understand how some of them goals don't go in.

03:40I think we need probably somebody to come in and bless the goal mouth or something,

03:44I don't know, because it just seems to me as if they're just not going in.

03:47Even in the first half, there's a massive chance they'll come off the post.

03:50If it had been the promotion winning season, that would have gone in.

03:53It just feels to me as if everything's going against us in front of goal.

03:58That's how I feel.

03:59I feel like, you know, I feel as if there's an invisible brick wall

04:03stopping the ball good in the net.

04:07Yeah, we created so many chances, but we wasn't present in the first half,

04:11so we basically only played half a game, so we didn't deserve to win the game.

04:15Yeah, and the players seeing that with the amount of chances that we're creating

04:18and it not going in, it must eat away at them as, you know,

04:20the clock ticks down slowly and slowly, that, you know,

04:23they must start thinking, is the ball ever going to go in the back of the net,

04:25which obviously doesn't help either.

04:26Yeah, but you've got to be like McCurdy was last week when he missed the chance.

04:32Like some might say, it was an open goal.

04:38I think the keeper took a little bit of a deflection on it.

04:43But McCurdy just carries on going because in a minute he knows he's going to get another chance

04:46and we've got to carry on being like that.

04:49We've just got to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down, run back and get ready for the next one.

04:53We've just got to keep going.

04:57But regardless, we didn't play a game of football today.

05:01We played half the game.

05:02So we're not going to get what we want from any game if we're only prepared to turn up for half of it.

05:09Thanks.

05:10We didn't see any changes in the second half.

05:12Is that because you had so much momentum?

05:13We were playing so well.

05:14We didn't need to.

05:15I didn't think I should have made probably changes in the first 20 minutes.

05:20Yeah.

05:21But the second half didn't warrant any changes for me because we were so on top

05:25and everyone was playing so well, in my opinion.

05:29I don't think there was anybody out there that wasn't playing well.

05:33Everybody was playing well.

05:34So I thought, well, it's going to be harsh if I take somebody off at this moment

05:37because they're all knocking the door down.

05:40So there was no reason for me to make changes.

05:42I should have made probably five changes in the first half.

05:44Yeah.

05:44If the truth be known.

05:45But, you know, you see my point, right?

05:47Yeah, I know.

05:48Absolutely.

05:48I'm not disputing it.

05:49I was just asking because it's rare you don't see changes in the second half.

05:52I thought the same.

05:53I thought, well, I said to Jamie and to Neil Smith, my two assistants,

05:59is there any changes?

06:00They're like, no.

06:02We're flying.

06:03We're on top.

06:03If we make a change, it might slow the momentum down, if anything,

06:08and change the pace of the game.

06:09Just carry on.

06:10And I agreed.

06:12And you're right.

06:13You don't usually see that, especially when you're losing.

06:15But I didn't think there was any need.

06:18And obviously you were forced into that early change.

06:20Is there any news on Addy?

06:21Or is it too early?

06:21Yeah, too early.

06:22I kind of don't know.

06:24Obviously, yeah.

06:25Bit of a shame, though.

06:26Yeah, bit of a shame.

06:27Because he's had a really good start to the season, Addy.

06:30He's a threat.

06:32Well, I thought Harry forced to come on.

06:33And I thought he was potentially our best player in the first half.

06:36Yeah.

06:36And then obviously continued that in the second half as well.

06:39Put a lot of crosses in.

06:40I thought he looked a danger all game.

06:42Yeah.

06:42And obviously we had the conversation about goalkeepers a couple of weeks back.

06:46I was dreading bringing this up.

06:48But any news on that?

06:50And how is his finger?

06:51Because it looked quite heavily strapped.

06:53Yeah.

06:54It's probably, again, too early to say.

06:56But, yeah.

06:57I knew he'd come back and kick me in the teeth eventually.

07:01But, yeah.

07:02I think fair play to the kid because he's carried on.

07:04Yeah.

07:06And, yeah.

07:07I said to him at half-time,

07:09I'm proud of you for, you know,

07:11to continue with, you know, an injury like that.

07:14So, I don't know.

07:15It's too early to probably say how bad it is

07:17or what it is really, you know.

07:20But fair play to him.

07:21Yeah.

07:21And at the end there,

07:22it seemed a little bit tense between you and there.

07:24Was there some words between you and the crowd or not?

07:28Yeah.

07:29I kind of went over and clapped and none of them did.

07:31So, I was like,

07:32come on, you can see where to go in that second half clap, please.

'Invisible brick wall' - Crawley Town boss Scott Lindsey bemoans missed chances in Barrow defeat

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