'We had a crazy 15 minutes' - John Yems on ten-man Crawley Town's defeat to Port Vale

That's the view of Reds boss John Yems as his side fell to a fourth straight league loss.

Crawley fought valiantly with a player less for 78 minutes, after Joel Lynch's straight red, but eventually succumbed to second-placed Vale.

Kwesi Appiah's fourth goal in five games gave the Reds an unexpected half-time lead before the Valiants took charge in the second half.

Tom Conlon, Tom Pett, a George Francomb own goal, and substitute David Amoo fired Port Vale to their seventh League Two win in nine.

The result leaves Crawley 18th in the table. The Reds are five points clear of the drop zone.

Yems said: "People are saying we had a go and we tried, but you've got to do that.

"You pick up the paper up and it says we got beaten, and we've lost the last four games.

"And it's preventable. I think they [the goals] were all avoidable.

"It's another sending off. I'm not keeping on about the officials but some of the things that were going on out there again.

"They make it so hard, and they ruin the game for both sides, in my opinion.