Salford City slipped to a heavy away defeat at the weekend, going down 4-1 to high-flying Crewe.
It was a disappointing second-half performance from the Ammies that put paid to any hope their four hundred and ninety-eight travelling fans had of getting a result after Adam Ronney had given them a first-half lead.
A double from Tommy Lowery and goals from Porter and Pickering in a blistering second forty-five minutes secured all three points for the Railwaymen and left them in second place in the table.
However, the defeat for Salford added to what has been a difficult start in League Two for the newly-promoted club who now sit Seventeenth in the table. Boss Graham Alexander was dumfounded to explain how his side abandoned their gameplan in the second half and called on his players to show more desire when Forest Green Rovers pay a visit to the Peninsula Stadium next week. He said: ‘There are two ways of reacting, we feel sorry for ourselves and do what we did in the second half or we fight like hell to make sure people think us as good professionals and good men who want to compete and will do anything to win.’
‘There are only two choices in life really, that’s it, fight or flight, so there’s only one answer for me, but we need 20 people doing it.’
His words did not appear to cut much ice with some Salford fans when they took to social media with many starting to question whether Alexander is the right man for the job. Some feel with financial backing the club benefits from; the team should be performing much better, with the blame fairly and squarely placed on Alexanders shoulders.
Here is a selection of responses to the result and Alexanders comments on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/Paul_of_Astley/status/1175515308947320835?s=20
https://twitter.com/WayneASD83/status/1175506448396226566?s=20
Enjoyable 1st half but like Graham can't understand what happened in the 2nd half, we looked like two different teams. Have to say Crewe came out brilliant 2nd half, very well played. Looking forward to our next game and hopefully learn from this game 🦁💕
— Deb (@Deb81389955) September 21, 2019
https://twitter.com/Kn1gh7y/status/1175522740968808448?s=20
We were dreadful in the 2nd half. Need to stop playing Mani from the srart his performance was shocking again. We must stop backing off and start pressing higher because we never have an outlet from defence.
— Biff_0461 (@Biff_0461) September 21, 2019
What ever he is saying to the lads its not working,we play too deep,too defensive,we dont press,close the opposition down,service to the strikers poor, slow to get into the box…..not alot of positives…..Graham needs to be looking over his shoulder and come up with something.
— Mick (@Mick18374540) September 22, 2019
Onto the next loss
— 👹🔴 (@manches39619963) September 21, 2019
He sounds like he's trying too save his job
— Steve A ⚽️Love my Football❤ (@Ward2012Sa) September 21, 2019
