Crawley Town 3-2 Tranmere Rovers: result and report

League Two · Saturday 16 September 2023

Result

Crawley Town 3-2 Tranmere Rovers

League Two · Saturday 16 September 2023, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Crawley Town · Tranmere Rovers · League Two predictions

Crawley Town 3-2 Tranmere Rovers: match report

Crawley Town won against Tranmere Rovers 3-2 in the League Two on Saturday 16 September 2023. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Charlie Jolley opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Crawley Town's goals came from Ronan Darcy (61'), Nick Tsaroulla (68') and Klaidi Lolos (90+6'). Tranmere Rovers scored through Charlie Jolley (21') and Sam Taylor (66').

Discipline: Crawley Town received 5 yellow cards; Tranmere Rovers received 5 yellow cards.

Going into the game Crawley Town were 10th on 11 points from 7 and Tranmere Rovers 22nd on 3 points from 7. Crawley Town went on to finish that season 4th with 79 points, and Tranmere Rovers 16th with 57.

Crawley Town lined up in a 3-5-2 and Tranmere Rovers in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Nick Tsaroulla of Crawley Town (8.9), ahead of Sam Taylor (8.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Crawley Town wins, 1 draw and 4 for Tranmere Rovers.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Goal · Charlie JolleyTranmere Rovers · 0-1
  • 33'Yellow card · Ben GladwinCrawley Town
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Brad WalkerTranmere Rovers
  • 56'Yellow card · Ronan DarcyCrawley Town
  • 60'Yellow card · Charlie JolleyTranmere Rovers
  • 61'Goal · Ronan DarcyCrawley Town · 1-1
  • 66'Goal · Sam TaylorTranmere Rovers · 1-2
  • 68'Goal · Nick TsaroullaCrawley Town · 2-2
  • 74'Yellow card · Dan PikeTranmere Rovers
  • 76'Yellow card · Will WrightCrawley Town
  • 89'Yellow card · Josef YarneyTranmere Rovers
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Regan HendryTranmere Rovers
  • 90+6'Goal · Klaidi LolosCrawley Town · 3-2
  • 90+7'Yellow card · Rafiq KhaleelCrawley Town
  • 90+7'Yellow card · Klaidi LolosCrawley Town

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Crawley Town 5, draws 1, Tranmere Rovers 4.

Team news

Crawley Town line-up (3-5-2)

Corey Addai, Travis Johnson, Will Wright, Laurence Maguire, Ronan Darcy, Ben Gladwin, Dion Conroy, Liam Kelly, Nick Tsaroulla, Adam Campbell, Danilo Orsi

Tranmere Rovers line-up (4-3-3)

Luke McGee, Dan Pike, Tom Davies, Jordan Turnbull, Connor Wood, Reece McAlear, Brad Walker, Josh Hawkes, Sam Taylor, Charlie Jolley, Connor Jennings