CRAWLEY Town manager Steve Evans was disappointed to return with only a goalless away draw from their long trip to Altrincham.
They gave a great away performance and carved out a few chances on goal, the biggest being a penalty by Thomas Pinault 12 minutes before the end which was saved byh keeper Stuart Coburn.
FULL-TIME: Altrincham 0 Crawley Town 090
+1 - Yellow card (Crawley) Karl Broadhurst (handball).
90mins - 2 mins added time.
86mins - Altrincham are down to 10 men as substitute Robbie Lawton is shown a straight red card for a challenge with Sam Rents, catching him on the leg with a dangerous late challenge with his studs up.
83mins - Sub (Crawley) Danny Forrest replaces Chris Carruthers.
79mins - Sub (Crawley) Jefferson Louis replaces Charles Ademeno.
78mins - Sub (Alty) Robbie Lawton replaces Nicky Clee.
78mins - Penalty (Crawley) saved. Thomas Pinault's spot-kick is well saved by keeper Stuart Coburn. It was awarded after skipper Greg Young brought down Calum Willock in the area.
75mins - Denham is denied by Rayner.
74mins - Calum Willock is supplied with the ball from the right, manages to create space to turn and shoot but his effort is saved.
72mins - A high ball by Altrincham's Tom Kearney is headed over and wide by Dale Johnson.
71mins - YELLOW card (Crawley) Charles Ademeno is booked for fouling James Smith.
60mins - Sub (Altrincham) Dale Johnson replaces Shaun Densmore.
55mins - YELLOW card - (Crawley) Adam Quinn is booked for bringing down an opponent on the right wing. Sim on Rusk was left upfield from the previous Crawley attack.
49mins - Simon Rayner pulls off a tremendous save to palm over his crossbar a big high shot from 39 yards by Chris Denham. He had to run backwards to reach the ball and only reached it at full-stretch.
2nd half:Crawley can be pleased with the way they have played in the first half with early domination of possession leading to good efforts by Adam Quinn and Chris Carruthers going close.
Charles Ademeno had the best chance from six yards which he struck striaght at the keeper.
HALF-TIME: Altrincham 0 Crawley Town 044mins - Altrincham's Clee plays a high ball across the goalmouth, then goesw narrowly wide when the ball is played back in towards goal from the right.
38mins - Reds have another fine chance when Adam Quinn heads on goal from a cross by Thomas Pinualt and forces a good save by keeper Coburn.
35mins - Crawley miss their own great opportunity to put themnselves infront when a good passing move ends with the ball going through to Ademeno, who races into a one-on-one with keeper Stuart Coburn, who did well to block his shot.
28mins - Nicky Clee and then Chris Senior put chances wide as Altrincham exert some of their own pressure on the Crawley goal.
24mins - Altrincham should have scored from their first attack of the game when Chris Denham played a through-ball to striker Chris Senior, who was right in front of goal with only keeper Simon Rayner to beat. However his efforts went straight to Rayner who held on to the ball and the chance was gone.
14mins - Crawley are pinning their opponents into their own half and ended an attack with a drive over the bar from 35 yards by Chris Carruthers.
10mins - Crawley have made a good start making all the moves forward. A croner by Thomas Pinault was headed over the bar from the right side of the area by skipper Adam Quinn.
5mins - YELLOW card Greg Young (Altrincham).
3mins - Kieran Djilali shoots from long-range which goes well wide.
Updates:STEVE Evans has named an unchanged side from the one which gained a 2-0 victory over Histon on Tuesday night.
That result was their first win in five matches during which they have been suffering from an injury crisis which affected eight players.
Crawley arrived late at Moss Lane but still had time for a decent warm-up following traffic delays on the M6.
New signing Calum Willock is partnering Charles Ademeno upfront, while loan signings Kieran Djilali (from Crystal Palace) and Chris Carruthers (Oxford Utd) are also in the starting line-up.
Altrincham are missing their top striker Colin Little. Crawley are without Glenn Wilson, Nick Jordan and Ben Smith.
REDS: Rayner, Rusk, Rents, Hutchinson, Broadhurst, Ademeno, Pinault, Djilali, Carruthers, Quinn, Willock. Subs: Forrest, Louis, Killeen, Cogan, Jordan
ALTY: Coburn, Smith, Doughty, Kearney, Young, Densmore, Denham, Clee, Williams, Danylyk, Senior. Subs: Lawton, Saunders, Johnson, Heffernan, Pearson
REFEREE: R.Wigglesworth
ATTENDANCE: 817 (21 away)
OBSERVER MAN OF THE MATCH: 