Crawley Town mananger Steve Evans spoke to cambridgeunited.com following his sides 2-2 draw with the U's at the R Costings Abbey Stadium last night. His comments are below:
"It was a game we should have won. We lost two points because of ten minutes of madness, Scott Neilson's got caught on the edge of the box and they've broken to hit us for the first. The second goal came from a foul on Craig McAlister that has seen the ball bouncing off Craig and ending up in the net.
"If they hadn't got the first goal back I honestly think they would have been routed and a five-nil score line was a real possibility. Our second goal showed we are the best footballing side in this league, there are others that claim to be, but we are it. We will continue to play in the right way and that is what we are about as a football club.
"In the second half the boys have dusted themselves down and made the better chances, no-one will be disputing that. The Cambridge keeper has made a couple of wonderful saves and when Scott Neilson has broken through even Lingy can't dispute that was a penalty, he's got taken down but because he has squared the ball across the pitch the referee has allowed the play to go on. We are not going to blame the referee though but he is never a man when he is in charge of us that we feel like we will get the rub of the green. That's as much as I'm going to say about him, I'm not going to give him any credit.
"We've come to a difficult venue, Cambridge are a good side. In the normal run of events we would have beaten Grimsby as we should have done we would have considered a point here as a good point but we have to see it as two points down the pan really.
"Fair play if we would have been two nil up here a few years ago and they had pulled it back to two-two we would have collapsed and got beat. But tonight when that happened we raised our game and any Cambridge fan here tonight left the ground thinking anything other than Crawley Town will be there or there abouts at the end of the season must have been sitting with there back to the play eating burgers!"
"So in all; I'm happy with the level of performance except for that ten minute spell. Martin Ling was impressed with us judging from what he said to us after the final whistle but we are only going to get better. More signings will come, and we will improve."
Interview by David Gray
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