Crawley Town 3-1 Colchester United: result and report

League Two · Saturday 1 January 2022

Result

Crawley Town 3-1 Colchester United

League Two · Saturday 1 January 2022, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Crawley Town 3-1 Colchester United: match report

Crawley Town defeated Colchester United 3-1 in the League Two on Saturday 1 January 2022. It was 2-0 at half-time.

A. Nadesan opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Crawley Town's goals came from A. Nadesan (15'), J. Lynch (37') and A. Nadesan (55'). Colchester United scored through Freddie Sears (79').

Discipline: Crawley Town received 1 yellow card; Colchester United received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Crawley Town were 18th on 25 points from 20 and Colchester United 20th on 22 points from 20. Crawley Town went on to finish that season 12th with 61 points, and Colchester United 15th with 55.

Crawley Town lined up in a 3-4-3 and Colchester United in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ashley Nadesan of Crawley Town (8.6), ahead of Sylvester Jasper (8.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Crawley Town wins, 2 draws and 0 for Colchester United.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 15'Goal · A. NadesanCrawley Town · 1-0
  • 31'Yellow card · Brendan WireduColchester United
  • 37'Goal · J. LynchCrawley Town · 2-0
  • 55'Goal · A. NadesanCrawley Town · 3-0
  • 76'Yellow card · Cole SkuseColchester United
  • 79'Goal · Freddie SearsColchester United · 3-1
  • 88'Yellow card · Will FerryCrawley Town

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Crawley Town 3, draws 2, Colchester United 0.

Team news

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Crawley Town line-up (3-4-3)

Glenn Morris, Ludwig Francillette, Tony Craig, Joel Lynch, James Tilley, George Francomb, Jack Powell, Will Ferry, Tom Nichols, Ashley Nadesan, Kwesi Appiah

Colchester United line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jake Turner, Junior Tchamadeu, Tom Eastman, Tommy Smith, Cameron Coxe, Cole Skuse, Brendan Wiredu, Noah Chilvers, Alan Judge, Armando Dobra, Freddie Sears