Mark Kennedy is hoping to put a stop to Swindon Town’s disastrous League Cup record as they face Crawley Town on Tuesday night.

Swindon have not won a cup match in any competitions since the 2-1 win at Walsall in the FA Cup in 2021 and are without a win in the League Cup since another 2-1 win over Luton Town back in 2014.

Kennedy’s personal cup record contains a victory over Premier League Sheffield United with Lincoln City in last year’s Carabao Cup and he said he was hoping to help Swindon end their own cup hoodoo.

He said: “That would be amazing [to break the cup cycle] and, trust me, we will be trying to win a game of football.

“I have proved in cup competitions how seriously I take them. My record in them has been very good and I take the games very seriously because we want to win every game, it is very important to the club.

“I think that stats can be very misleading like you see those stats that somebody hasn’t won at Old Trafford for 80 years and yet they have only been in the same league as them for two years, things like.

“We are in the cup every year and if the record has not been great, I don’t know what the mindset has been going into them, although I would be very surprised if any manager went into a game hoping to lose it.

“Maybe it is the luck of the draw, the bottom line is we are an excellent League Two team playing an excellent League One team tomorrow.”

Swindon face their former manager Scott Lindsey at the Broadfield Stadium on Tuesday after a summer that has seen many of the team that won promotion depart but Kennedy is not expecting that to mean major changes.

He said: “The flip side is that I can’t imagine Scott is just going to rip up his philosophy and methodology and do something completely different.

“As coaches, we tend to have a particular style and whoever comes in, I don’t think Crawley’s team is going to be too far different from how they played last year.

“I am not expecting something substantially different and we have not seen anything substantially different from pre-season already.

“He is not going to go from playing it out from the back and a high press to pumping it long and having a mid-block.”