DEFENSIVE lynchpin Rio Adebisi is gunning for a memorable SECOND promotion with Crewe

The Railwaymen are on the cusp of a famous promotion back to League One – but they must beat Crawley in Sunday's League Two play-off final at Wembley to secure a welcome return to the third tier.

Adebisi tasted sweet success in his debut season with the club, winning promotion as champions to League One in the 2019-2020, only to be relegated the following campaign.

“I was involved in the last promotion the club had, but for me personally this has been my best season because I’ve been able to play in every game,” Adebisi told Football Site SportsBoom.com.

“We got promoted in the Covid year. It was really good, but the season got cut short because of Covid and I was injured at the time.

“But the only problem with going up that year was that we weren’t able to celebrate properly because of all the restrictions in place. It was bit weird.

“There was no party afterwards and no fans in the stadiums at that same, so hopefully we might be able to celebrate this time if we can win.”

Crewe lost the first leg of their semi-final 2-0 at home to in-form Doncaster Rovers, but recovered to beat the Yorkshire outfit 2-0 away in the second leg

And a sought-after Wembley berth was secured with a thrilling 4-3 penalty shootout victory.

“We were probably not expected by people to do as well as we’ve done,” offered Adebisi.

“But what we’ve done is really good, to get the results towards the end of the season, has been amazing really.

“It was an unbelievable semi-final. We were nervous going into the second leg because we were 2-0 down, but we scored early on and that helped us massively.

“To then go on and win on pens, well the celebrations afterwards were just amazing.

“We just had to focus on ourselves and not worry about the scoreline. We knew that if we scored early then all the pressure would be on them – and that’s what happened.”