From Flying Kiwis.
If you’re going to miss a national team game to stay behind and help your club instead, you might as well make the most of it by giving a man of the match level performance in a clean sheet victory. Lincoln City 0-1 Burton Albion. Crocombe made one superb fingertip save while it was still 0-0, then Lincoln got a red card early in the second half before scoring an own goal soon afterwards. Enough to win a few plaudits for his performance, right on.
𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗚𝗨𝗘 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬
𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗕𝗼𝘀𝘀 - 𝗡𝗲𝗶𝗹 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘆, @BlackpoolFC
Congratulations to Blackpool, @burtonalbionfc, @leytonorientfc, @shrewsburytown and @CambridgeUtdFC who all have players featured in the team this week! pic.twitter.com/E0qNJTBlW8— The Football League Paper (@TheLeaguePaper)
That’s three wins in a row for Burton. They’d won 1/10 prior to this cheeky run. A third clean sheet of the term for Crocs, who has the third best save percentage in the entire division – remarkable for a team that’s been on the back foot in more games than not this season. He’s conceding less than a goal per ninety minutes. It was disappointing when he started the campaign as the second choice but it didn’t take long before he proved his worth in emphatic form.
There’s a reason that Burton Albion negotiated him out of the All Whites tour: he’s indispensable to them.