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Scott Lindsey felt his Swindon side taught Crystal Palace U21s a footballing lesson in spite of them falling to a 2-0 defeat. Total Sport Swindon’s Joe Acklam spoke to Scott Lindsey following defeat in Town’s their opening EFL Trophy match.

John-Kymani Gordon bagged a second half brace as Crystal Palace sucker punched a largely dominant Swindon performance.

Lindsey was pleased with his side’s performance overall and believed they had dominated proceedings, despite being unable to find the net.

He said: “I felt that we created plenty of chances, I am not sure what the stats say but we had opportunities and hit the post a couple of times.

“I thought we did more than enough to win the game, we were outstanding tonight. We might have been playing an under 20s side, but they are a Premier League one and we were by far the better side.

“I thought we showed them how to play football and played very, very good football.

“We dominated the game from start to finish, even when we had 10 men we still carried on passing it very well.

“I gave four first team debuts tonight for some of the youth team boys, which we are really pleased about and I thought they did well.

“I thought we had some really strong individual performances, I do not want to name names but Tyrese Shade was outstanding as a centre forward, which I was really pleased about.

“It is pleasing to see any player give their all for the cause and Tyrese certainly did that tonight.

“He handled the ball really well, dropped into space, ran hard and created one on two opportunities. I was really pleased for him.”

However, Lindsey did admit that it is becoming a frustrating pattern for Swindon this season to have strong performances but be unable to convert them into victories.

He said: “I have said in the dressing room to the lads that you can’t play that well and not win, we have to turn performances like that into wins.

“You cannot play that well and come off the pitch the losing team, it is criminal really to play that well and you fail to win the game.

“The goals that they scored happen some times, I am not sure whether the second goal was a routine, it felt like it was off the cuff, but fair play to him [Gordon] because it was an excellent finish.”

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