Crawley Town 0-2 Colchester United: result and report

League Two · Tuesday 26 December 2017

Result

Crawley Town 0-2 Colchester United

League Two · Tuesday 26 December 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Crawley Town 0-2 Colchester United: match report

Crawley Town were beaten by Colchester United 0-2 in the League Two on Tuesday 26 December 2017. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Mikael Mandron opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Crawley Town did not score. Colchester United scored through Mikael Mandron (4') and S. Szmodics (57').

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

Going into the game Crawley Town were 17th on 27 points from 23 and Colchester United 9th on 36 points from 23. Crawley Town went on to finish that season 14th with 59 points, and Colchester United 13th with 62.

Crawley Town lined up in a 4-4-2 and Colchester United in a 4-4-1-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Crawley Town wins, 4 draws and 1 for Colchester United.

Going into the match Crawley Town's last five read W-L-W-D-W and Colchester United's D-W-W-L-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · Mikael MandronColchester United · 0-1
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Frankie KentColchester United
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Moussa SanohCrawley Town
  • 57'Goal · S. SzmodicsColchester United · 0-2
  • 86'Yellow card · S. SzmodicsColchester United

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Crawley Town 4, draws 4, Colchester United 1.

Team news

Crawley Town line-up (4-4-2)

Yusuf Mersin, Lewis Young, Mark Connolly, Josh Yorwerth, Billy Clifford, Cedric Evina, Josh Lelan, Jordan Roberts, Kaby, Moussa Sanoh, Thomas Verheydt

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

Sam Walker, Frankie Kent, Tom Eastman, Kane Vincent-Young, Ryan Jackson, Tom Lapslie, Sammie Szmodics, Brandon Comley, Kyel Romaine Reid, Drey Wright, Mikael Mandron