'We were weak' - Crawley Town boss reacts to Cambridge United defeat - video Dailymotion

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Crawley Town lost 3-1 to Cambridge United today at the Cledera Abbey Stadium. Here is a disappointed Scott Lindsey after the game.

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00:01Scott, thanks for joining us. Obviously another tough defeat on the road here today.

00:05Henry, what were your thoughts on your game?

00:07Yeah, I'm really disappointed obviously with the outcome of that game.

00:13I just don't really know.

00:16I think that the stats would suggest that we're in the game.

00:23We're alright. We're not.

00:26We're not. We can't defend in moments. We're so easy to score against at the moment.

00:36The first goal is just madness really. We've defended corners actually alright.

00:41I think we've actually defended set pieces really well in the past.

00:45I think it was something like we'd faced 82 set pieces against us without a goal.

00:51And then today we just capitulated.

00:53First one, no one attacks it. It bounces and then we can't deal with it.

00:58Easy goal for them to score.

01:00Second goal, again a set piece.

01:03Force to the edge of the box. No one engages.

01:05Kid puts it in. Easy goal.

01:08And then the third goal, we're just really open and don't get back in.

01:15I see my players, I see the back three defending and no one else in the picture.

01:22We're just not hard working enough at the moment which is costing us and I've got to change it.

01:30Yeah, I'm disappointed. Really disappointed because, like I say, if you look at the stats, we create probably more than them.

01:38Again, we only score one goal.

01:40Yeah, we're just weak.

01:47And set pieces, our set pieces were terrible today.

01:50I think we put, we must have put seven or eight in the goalkeeper's hands.

01:55You know, we worked so hard on it as well, this is why.

01:58I don't get the character at the moment, it's not coming through.

02:01There's no character, you know.

02:03I hear one player in there, in the dressing room now, who, you know, and I need more.

02:10I need more. Yeah, disappointed.

02:12You know, I suppose one of the biggest frustrations at the moment is the manner of goals we conceded.

02:16A lot of them seem to be sort of our own doing.

02:19Well, it's two set pieces, so you've got to defend them moments better.

02:23That's probably not our own doing.

02:25We've got to defend them better.

02:27Two set pieces, you can't defend.

02:32I don't understand how we can defend so well for so many games on set pieces and then we capitulate today.

02:37It doesn't make sense to me, but there's a lot that's not making sense to me at the moment with the group

02:42because I see a team that are lacking a bit of confidence, obviously, and we talk a good game.

02:49I think we talk a good game.

02:51You know, I see it in training, we talk a good game and we prepare a good game

02:55and then we don't really, we kind of pretend to deliver it at the moment.

03:00So, yeah, they're really hard to take and hard to watch and, you know, it's just some great luck.

03:09We get six minutes put up on the board, which, I don't know where we get six minutes put up on the board.

03:14It should be more like 12, the amount of time that was taken on every pick.

03:18But anyway, we've got six minutes.

03:19We've wasted four of them minutes by giving two silly fouls away.

03:23Just, I don't know what we're doing.

03:25But I'm the leader, so it's my fault, so I will sort it.

03:29What's sort of puzzling is there's a lot of talent out there on the pitch.

03:33There's a lot of good players. We're signing some very good players this summer.

03:35But for some reason, something isn't just sort of clicking and going right, is it?

03:39Talent means nothing if you haven't got the heart and desire to go with it.

03:45It means nothing. You may as well not have it.

03:47It means nothing. It means absolutely zero.

03:52So, yeah, I need to see more want-will determination, aggression to work the opposition.

04:04So, slow at times, you know.

04:06Yeah, we're miles off it at the moment. Miles off it without performance.

04:10Yeah, it's natural and unexpected, but you can see some of the players out there,

04:14especially towards the end of the game, getting frustrated.

04:16It's one of the main aims now to just sort of calm everybody down, have a little reset,

04:19you know, try and get back on track.

04:21Yeah, I suppose so. I think, like I say, you look at the stats.

04:26Completely in charge of the ball.

04:30We create, again, chance after chance.

04:34That's what's worrying me.

04:36What's worrying me is how open we look.

04:38We're just so open. We're not hard working on food.

04:41I can show you that third goal where we have players just crossing the halfway line

04:49as the ball's going in the back of the net.

04:51That isn't my team.

04:53So, yeah, we've got a lot to talk about, a lot of harsh words to go through,

04:59probably Monday morning.

05:01I know, obviously, we don't like looking ahead too much,

05:03but in terms of Tuesday, I suppose that's a chance for some of the players,

05:06again, to show that they perhaps should be, you know, starting in the league.

05:11Yeah, I've not thought about Tuesday night yet.

05:16I may even play that team again after that, to try and put it right.

05:24Yeah, we appreciate it. It's obviously frustrating for them, but a big thanks to the supporters.

05:28They've travelled great numbers.

05:29And, you know, we're working as hard as we can, day by day, to give them the results that they want.

05:34I can't say enough about the supporters.

05:40You know, we're just letting them down, and I can't stand that.

05:45I can't stand that.

05:47I'm not sure what more I can do.

05:52I'm trying so hard to turn it, and sometimes you need a little bit of luck on the way.

06:04You know, I don't know. I've just got to rethink a few things.

06:10You say about luck there. You mentioned the invisible wall last week.

06:15It did seem to be up again again today, didn't it?

06:17It's like Dion with his header that hit the post.

06:19Josh Lindwell's free header. Didn't seem to fall for you again today, did it?

06:24Yeah, I probably should have done something in the week with a priest or something to come in and bless the goal.

06:30I'm being serious. I do feel like people might think I'm bonkers, but I do feel it.

06:35I just feel as if there's some kind of invisible wall there.

06:40Yeah, we created quite a lot of chances again today.

06:48Had we have done our job at the other end of the pitch, though, we'd win the game.

06:51We're not capable of keeping a clean sheet at the moment.

06:54So, I just don't understand the first goal. I don't understand the second goal.

07:04I don't understand all the goals. I don't understand them.

07:06No.

07:07And we talk about it all the time.

07:08And to be fair, like I said, defensively, I think we've faced 82 set pieces in the last games or whatever without conceding a goal.

07:16So, we're kind of patting them on the back with that and say, right, Scott, continue.

07:19Then we just defend like schoolboys today.

07:23Third goal is really disappointing because I see players not running.

07:27They can't play for me.

07:29They cannot play for me if they're not prepared to run when the opposition have the ball.

07:33And there's players crossing the halfway line almost at a jog as the opposition are putting the ball in the net.

07:38They can't and they won't play for me.

07:40So, you know, I need a little bit more than what I'm getting at the moment.

07:45Yeah, you mentioned heart and desire just a minute ago.

07:47How do you change that?

07:48How do you coach that?

07:49Is it something you can change?

07:50Yeah, I think I've got enough in the building.

07:52I've just got to make sure that I put the right players on the pitch.

07:55I think because at the moment, and I think, listen, it's not easy, especially when you're not doing well and the results are against you.

08:05It's difficult to find that edge and that character.

08:10But I'm just, yeah, I'm just miffed by that game.

08:16Yeah.

08:17I just spoke to the chairman this morning and, sorry, last night.

08:26And he's asking me, am I confident?

08:29I'm like, I'm always confident.

08:31I go into every game thinking, yeah, I feel we're going to win.

08:35You know, we do the preparation.

08:36We look at Cambridge.

08:38We work out how we think we can earn them.

08:40And the work goes in on the training pitch.

08:43The detail that we give the players, I think is enough.

08:47Yeah, I'm confident in every game. I really am.

08:54But then we play to a degree in the first half.

08:59We feel, I'm actually, at half time I'm actually happy with the performance.

09:03I'm disappointed with the goal because I think it's a pathetic goal.

09:07It's like schoolboy defending.

09:12But we're still in the game and we come out and then we're just so, just weak at the moment.

09:18Yeah, we've got to find it. We've got to find that character.

09:24Yeah, and just quickly, Harry Forster came by. Was that tactical or was that an injury?

09:28Injury.

09:29Injury.

09:30Yeah, too early to tell.

09:32Yeah, just, I don't know. I don't know at the moment.

09:35Thanks Scott.

'We were weak' - Crawley Town boss reacts to Cambridge United defeat

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