Crawley Town drew 1-1 with Chesterfield on Saturday afternoon in a match that swung repeatedly before settling into stalemate.
Chesterfield took control early. Liam Mandeville scored in the ninth minute to put the visitors ahead, and the same player doubled their advantage on 39 minutes after Johnny Russell had added a third in between, on 27 minutes. Chesterfield went into the interval two goals to the good and looking comfortable.
The second half changed the picture quickly. Taylor Richards pulled one back for Crawley immediately after the restart, and Kellan Gordon reduced the deficit further within four minutes of that. Will Grigg equalised on 58 minutes, levelling the contest at three goals apiece, and Armando Dobra's effort in the same minute suggested Crawley had found real momentum.
Crawley moved in front through Dion Pereira on 72 minutes. Russell responded for Chesterfield almost immediately, and Tom Naylor added another on 77 minutes to restore Chesterfield's lead. The match had become open and difficult to read from either side.
Ryan Stirk and G. Bajrami came on for Crawley in the closing stages, and Jay Williams scored in stoppage time to bring the final score to 1-1, though by that point the aggregate of goals made a single-goal summary feel incomplete. Both sides created and conceded in equal measure. Neither could claim to have managed the game with any real discipline once the second half began.
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