Crewe Alexandra F.C.

Yeah, let's talk about the quality or lack of.

I think I made the mistake of watching the Chelsea Man United game before the Crewe game and was talking to some of my friends who unfortunately do support that red team and said, this is dire.

These used to be two of the best football teams in the country.

And then I followed up by watching the first half of Crewe versus Barnet.

Steve, we do need to talk about the one moment of quality in that first half.

And it wasn't a Crewe player.

It was their player scoring for them to make it 1-0.

Good hit.

I also wanted to mention Newport v Chesterfield because Newport scored four in the first half against Chesterfield.

Chesterfield, of course, scored five in the first half last weekend against Crewe.

That really does just sum up League Two, doesn't it? The topsy-turvy nature of League Two.

We also need to mention Swindon because they beat Rotherham 2-1.

As for Rochdale, they are now winless in four league games after back-to-back wins.

Speaking of back-to-back, that takes us to Crewe, because it's back-to-back defeats for the Railwaymen, who were of course still unbeaten this time last week, but they lost to Exeter, and then they lost 5-1 at Chesterfield, and quite remarkably, They were 5-0 down at half-time.

It really has been a chastening week for Lee Bell's side.

You could argue that they were unfortunate to lose down at Exeter, but there was nothing unfortunate about this defeat on Saturday.

They conceded five in the first half.

Yes, Chesterfield scored with all their shots on target and there was an own goal as well but Crewe had 30 odd percent possession and crucially they didn't have a single shot in that first half they were absolutely battered they did however manage to win the second half 1-0 though Charlie McNeil getting on the score sheet so that is a crumb of comfort for Crewe As for Chesterfield, this ends a frustrating little run for them and I think their squad depth was underlined by Josh Caroma scoring early on and having to go off injured and being replaced by Dylan Marcande.

Not many League 2 teams are able to bring on players of the quality of Dylan Marcande.

I mentioned Exeter who of course beat Crewe during the week.

And the things that I hated when I was playing football were people running across me, lateral movement, people running in behind me.

And I loved it when people chipped... balls up to me especially when I was playing against more mobile smaller centre forwards and I'd have absolutely loved playing against Crewe for the second half of that first half after Exeter went 1-0 up because all I would have had to have done is head balls away and head balls down to my teammates and that's what we did we stopped playing we made it really really easy for them I think their goalkeeper He probably didn't have to take his robe and slippers off after it went 1-0.

Probably didn't have to put his cigar out either.

It was that easy for him.

And that's unforgivable.

There are basic principles to playing professional football when you wear that badge.

I don't care if it's for Crewe or for any football club in this country.

There's a minimum requirement of effort and determination and a willingness to try and keep the ball out of the net.

Your commentators are Will Jones and Matthias Prokoumwit.

Good evening and welcome to St. James Park for this League 2 fixture between Exeter City and Crewe Alexandra.

Exeter are a lot lower in the table than Crewe however find themselves in a good run of form while Crewe are going to this one unbeaten all season and have one of the best away records in the league however City they have unbeaten record at home so far this season.

And with an absolutely rocking big bag, you would not bet against them today.