Karl Robinson praised his side’s performance after snatching two late goals to grab three points on the weekend.
The Ammies scored two goals in quick succession to snatch a 4-3 win in the dying minutes of the game, courtesy of Josh Austerfield and Kallum Cesay, a seven goal thriller which ended Salford’s losing streak and earned their first three points since October.
The result puts the Ammies back in the play-off spots in seventh, and three points of the automatic promotion places.
Robinson said: “We had to be brave and people are forgetting it’s hard at the moment, the amount of games we’ve got coming up and players just on that edge of fatigue and making sure that they’re all fit and ready to go for the next batch of games.
“So I think sometimes you have to be brave to make certain decisions, to sort of relinquish pressure on certain bodies.
“At half time I felt that in the first half that we didn’t get close enough and to impose the way we want to play.
“You’ve also got to respect Crawley. They’re a good football team who play some wonderful stuff and make it incredibly difficult to get anywhere near them because of the bravery and their rotation.”
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He continued: “On a transition, I thought we were excellent. I think the two goals we scored at the end were as Salford as you’re going to get.
“Win the ball back, pass forwards and get bodies in the box and make sure you get some sort of contact on that.
“What we certainly do, what we lack in height, we gain in heart and we gain in pace and we gain in excitement and we gain in enthusiasm and all of the ways that in some ways that the ruthlessness, the industriousness of our style is a mess within what Salford’s all about.
“With a growing football club with young fans behind the goal, and we want to show respect to them at the end of the game today.”
Salford host two cup games this week, playing against league one opposition in Rotherham United and Lincoln City.
Robinson reiterated the importance of the fans for the upcoming games: “We’ve got a Cup game on Tuesday, we’ve got the FA cup on Friday, we’ve got the eyes of the world on Salford.
“I want to make a point and it’s important our media team get this as well. We need this place full on Friday. The cameras of the world will be on Salford.
“We’re playing a team in the league above. We know they’re going to be very good and we know we’re going to be challenged.”
Salford host Rotherham in the round of 32 in the Vertu Trophy on Tuesday and have the big FA Cup tie against Lincoln on Friday with the game being shown live on TV on TNT Sports.
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