Critchley reflects on U23s defeat, red cards and debuts

It proved an encounter to forget for the Premier League 2 leaders, who were beaten by Jack Roles’ second-half goal and had Adam Lallana and George Johnston sent off.

After the final whistle, Critchley provided his take on the game, the performances on full debut of Tony Gallacher and Adam Lewis, and the dismissals.

On the overall performance of his team…

It’s hard to sum that game up really, quite an eventful game. I thought we started reasonably well and had some chances early on which we didn’t capitalise on. They had some chances towards the end of the first half and there wasn’t really much in it at half-time. It was a pitch for playing forward, both teams were pressing forward. It’s…