The Reds should have been high on confidence after their 6-1 win against York City on Saturday.

Mustapha Carayol and Jamie Cook sat out on the bench for the game and couldn't come on because they were struggling with knocks, while Jon-Paul Pittman missed out altogether.

Glenn Wilson took up an attacking role alongside Pierre Joseph-Dubois.

A poor first half with little in the way of chances was probably edged by Crawley early on.

On nine minutes a shot from Crystal Palace loan signing, Ryan Hall, hit Naisbitt's post bouncing away to safety.

From then on there was little in the way of goal scoring opportunities with both sides limited to free-kicks and corners.

However on the stroke of half-time the deadlock was broken. It was a goal worth waiting for as Antonio Murray cut inside and struck a superb 20 yard struck past the helpless Ashley Bayes.

The Crawley 'keeper appeared to be struggling with an injury all night, leaving defender Bradley Thomas to take his goal kicks.

Hoping for more of a spirited performance from both sets of teams, Histon came out looking the more threatening and it wasn't long before Murray added to his goal.

On 50 minutes the centre forward controlled a headed ball down, turned and shot past the helpless Bayes.

Just 11 minutes later, Histon had wrapped up the three points when Matthew Langston finished inside the penalty area after a scramble from a corner.

From then Histon had the better opportunities putting the injured Bayes under constant pressure, which he managed to deal with.

It was again another tense affair with seven bookings for both sets of players.

Earlier in the season both teams played out a physical match at the Broadfield Stadium which finished 1-0 to Crawley.

However, they couldn't win this one with the game ending 3-0 to Histon.





HISTON:Naisbitt, Okay, Mitchell-King, Langston, Gwillim, Murray, Nightingale, Kennedy, Knight-Percival, Midson, Wright
Subs: Key (gk), Cambridge, Kennedy, Barker, Ada

REDS: Bayes, Thompson, Wilson, Krause, Murphy, Bulman, Thomas, Pinault, Blackburn, Hall, Joseph-Dubois
Subs: Stevens, Cook, Carter, Carayol, Raynor

Referee M Stuart
Attendance:
Observer MOM:

Final-score: Histon 3 Crawley 0

Updates

90 mins BOOKING (Histon) Adrian Cambridge

90 mins SUB (Histon) JOHN KENNEDY replaced by NEIL KENNEDY

87 mins SUB (Histon) DANIEL WRIGHT replaced by JAMIE BARKER.

Header by Histon's Midson from 12 yards out but it goes over the bar.

86 mins - Shot by Danny Wright is tipped over by Ashley Bayes. The Crawley 'keeper has certainly not looked his most mobile tonight.

83 mins BOOKED (Histon) Jack histon for a foul on Ryan Hall.

80 mins - Ashley Bayes gets himself in a mess rushing out from his line but Crawley clear.

79 mins - A left foot shot by Ryan Hall is well saved by the Histon 'keeper.

75 mins SUB (Histon) ROB NIGHTINGALE replaced by ADRIAN CAMBRIDGE

73 mins GOAL DISALLOWED - A corner goes straight in the back of the net but the referee blows up for a fould on Bayes.

65 mins - Right footed shot by John Kennedy but the ball goes over Bayes' bar.

64 mins - Ashley Bayes tips the ball over the bar from a free kick by Gareth Gwillem.

63 mins - BOOKED (Crawley) Ryan Hall booked

61 mins - GOAL! (Histon) MATTHEW LANGSTON scores. Gwillem took the corner to the far post which eventually fell to Langston who nets and makes it 3-0.

59 mins - BOOKED (Histon) Danny Wright

54 mins - BOOKED (Crawley) Thomas Pinault also booked after a foul on Glenn Wilson.

53 mins - BOOKED (Histon) Rob Nightingale booked for dissent after a foul.

Still a very quiet game with few chances.

50 mins - GOAL! (Histon) Danny Wright flicks the ball on for ANTONIO MURRAY who turns on the penalty spot and finishes past Ashley Bayes.

47 mins - Crawley go on the counter attack with Bulman and Joseph-Dubois but it comes to nothing.

Second half

45 mins - GOAL! (Histon) ANTONIO MURRAY cuts inside and hits a superb right foot shot from the corner of the box which flies into top of Bayes' net.

41 mins - Good cross in by Histon which ends up going out for a corner.

40 mins - A good effort by Murray for Histon from 20 yards which is well saved by Bayes.

The game is slow with little quality in terms of attacking play. Bayes is not taking goal kicks tonight.

34 mins - Little to choose between the two teams. With a number of corners for both sides.

The second corner comes to nothing.

32 mins - Crawley win a corner. Ryan Hall takes the dead ball kick which is cleared for another corner.

29 mins - Deep cross in to the box which falls to Murphy's head but he can't turn it in to anything. He will feel he should have done better.

24 mins - There is little to talk about in the game with Crawley happy to sit back and soak up the pressure.

18 mins - Histon are on top at the moment but there signs that Crawley could snatch the lead if they applied a bit more pressure.

15 mins - Wilson clears well from a corner taken by Qwillem for Histon.

12 mins - Another corner by Crawley but it is cleared. Good early pressure by the Reds.

10 mins - Ryan Hall has a shot from from the left but it hits the post. Best chance of the game so far.

9 mins - Corner by Crawley's Ryan Hall is well cleared by the Histon defence.