Scott Lindsey felt his Crawley side were worthy victors after they won their first away game of the season at Cambridge.

The Reds have won both of their Sky Bet League One matches following promotion as well as progressing in the EFL Cup, while Cambridge are yet to pick up a point and also exited the cup on Tuesday.

Ade Adeyemo made amends for missing a huge chance by netting the winner four minutes from time, the only goal of a fixture where both sides had been wasteful to that point.

“I’m really pleased with the second-half performance, I thought we were really, really good. Outstanding, in fact,” said Lindsey afterwards.

“I thought we controlled the game. First half, not so much. I felt that it was a little bit more of a transitional game which kind of doesn’t suit us, we want it to be controlled, dominant.

“So we spoke about that at half-time and I thought second half we were outstanding.

“First half we didn’t create anywhere near enough; we had chances to shoot, we turned them down. Second half we really took them to task. We were really good with the ball and the performance was really good in the end.

“Ade took his goal fantastically. I thought he had taken it too wide at one stage but he slotted it perfectly. I thought we deserved it as well. It’s really good to get off the mark away from home.”