Crawley Town head into the break level with Accrington Stanley at the Wham Stadium

Crawley Town head into the break level after withholding a dominant Accrington Stanley. Midfielder Liam Kelly was forced off with an injury in the 27th minute and Corey Addai has been kept busy in the first half to deny the home side from taking the lead.

Accrington Stanley almost took advantage of a defensive mixup in the sixth minute when a long ball caught the visitors off guard. Jake Bickerstaff was left one on one with Corey Addai but the Crawley shot stopper was equal to the chipped effort.

Addai was forced to produce another good save when he got down low to keep out a dangerous long range strike from Ben Woods.

Crawley Town made three changes from the side that beat AFC Wimbledon on Tuesday night. Nick Tsaroulla, Jeremy Kelly and Adam Campbell returned to the side to replace Kellan Gordon, Harry Forster and Ronan Darcy.

It took Crawley 18 minutes to register their first shot on goal when Tsaroulla looked to curl his effort into the far corner but was instead comfortably caught by Radek Vítek.

The Reds once again looked vulnerable in defence but a mixture of Addai and Dion Conroy helped keep the ball out of the net from a dangerous Accrington attack.

Scott Lindsey was forced into an early substitution due to Liam Kelly having picked up a supposed hamstring injury which meant that Ronan Darcy was called into action at the Wham Stadium.

Darcy's first involvement was a long range effort at goal which did not trouble the Accrington keeper as it flew over the crossbar.