'It’s the first time it’s happened to us, let’s hope it’s the last' - Crawley Town manager John Yems gracious in defeat

Rhys Bennett’s debut goal opened the scoring for the Cumbrians, with Josh Kayode and Aaron Hayden getting in on the act, as Carlisle ran out 3-0 winners.

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Yems hopes that today was a blip on Crawley’s otherwise impressive home record: “It was one of those games. It’s the first time it’s happened to us, let’s hope it’s the last. Credit to Carlisle, they came here, and I would say that’s the worst (Crawley) performance since I’ve been here, but it just wasn’t us today, was it? But credit to them, they’re a good side, they know what they’re doing, but we knew all that anyway, and let’s just hope we don’t have too many days like that."

Yems brought Jake Hesketh back into the Crawley side following his 3-match ban, and reacted to a battling performance from the loanee: He was in the wars because good players get kicked.

"All good players get kicked, that’s never changed in football. But I’m not singling any player out for being good, bad or ugly because as a team we weren’t good enough, and that’s what showed, we weren’t good enough as a team.

"Do we learn from it? Do we push on from it? Let’s hope so, let’s go on another run now”.