Fulham coach Marco Silva felt Crawley Town “wanted it more” in our Carabao Cup defeat at Broadfield Stadium.
Fulham had more of the play but struggled to create much against our hosts, who put in a performance that belied their position in the League Two table.
Marco Silva said: “It was a bad performance, definitely, and of course the result as well. It puts us out of a competition that we wanted to win. Congratulations to them, from the first minute they wanted it more than us, and after that we lost a little bit of control in the game, started to make some mistakes, and they scored, which made it more difficult for us. I tried at half-time to change some things, and we started the second half in the worst way possible. We tried to do something different, and we made the same mistakes. But that’s football. These types of games, we have to show the same enthusiasm, the same intensity that we saw from our opponent. We know that when they play against a Premier League club it’s an opportunity for them to show that they can match us. It’s a normal situation. I’m not talking about the attitude of my players. It’s just reading the game, to know what’s happened, taking the best decisions, is something that we didn’t do, which created these problems for us. Unfortunately we are out of the competition, now we have to analyse it with the players, and look to the next one.”
