League One strugglers Burton and Crawley fought their way to a point apiece in a goalless draw at the Pirelli Stadium.
Albion remain winless in the league so far but halt a run of seven straight league defeats.
Burton bossed long periods of the first half but could not find a breakthrough in the opening 45 minutes.
Tomas Kalinauskas, scorer of the winner in Saturday’s FA Cup first-round victory against Scarborough, fired straight at visiting goalkeeper Connal Trueman twice in a minute on the quarter-hour mark and Ben Whitfield also found the waiting arms of the keeper.
Charlie Webster sent a rising effort over the crossbar from a Burton corner midway through the half and Whitfield thought he had broken the deadlock, racing onto Max Crocombe’s long clearance and firing home, only to be denied by a tight offside decision.
Crawley substitute Panutche Camara twice forced Crocombe into fine saves with 20 minutes remaining as the visitors built up a head of steam and sensed victory was there for the taking.
Ultimately neither side found the quality in attack to grab a decisive goal in a draw that does little for either teams’ plight at the bottom end of League One.
Match report supplied by PA Media.
