Miles and TC were really tired by the time they went off on Saturday, so I definitely wouldn't start them. It makes more sense to rotate the strikers to give them all game time.
And they are probably our best options to start on Saturday, so save them for that. And gives Kelman and Olaofe a chance to try and get themselves in the starting line up
Miles and TC were really tired by the time they went off on Saturday, so I definitely wouldn't start them. It makes more sense to rotate the strikers to give them all game time.
I don't want TC anywhere near the squad, he looks dead on his feet already. He had a much shorter break than the rest of our squad
Good point, I'd forgotten about his international duty. Indeed there would have been a logic in not starting him in the first 3 league games, not because of how he's played, but rather to ease him back into football more slowly.
League Cup - Second Round Cambridge United vs Charlton Athletic Tuesday 26th August 2025 - 7:30pm Kick-Off Referee: David Rock
Introduction EFL Championship action grounds to a halt once more this coming Tuesday. The Addicks return to League Cup action this midweek having despatched League One: Stevenage with a convincing 3-1 victory, courtesy of goals from Miles Leaburn, Luke Berry and Ibrahim Fullah, with the latter not looking out of place in Senior Football...
The Opposition Name: Cambridge United - Manager: Neil Harris Division: League Two Last Round: Bristol Rovers 0-2 Cambridge United
This Tuesday is an opportunity to right the wrongs from our Pre-Season clash with Cambridge United, which ended all square last month... Our opponents tomorrow, reached this round of the competition with a 2-0 win over fellow League Two side: Bristol Rovers, and is their fifth appearance at this stage of the League Cup, since returning from the National League in 2014-15... Cambridge have failed to reach the third round on each of those occasions.
In terms of 2025/26 and this is a season where Cambridge will be looking to bounce back from relegation last season, four years were spent in League One, so Neil Harris will be looking to engineer an instant return to the third tier of English Football. The season so far has yielded inconstant results, Cambridge sit 13th with seven points (Having played a game more than those sides in the Championship), and have two wins, one defeat and a draw. Their last outing in League action, came on Saturday, a 2-1 win at Colchester United.
Charlton Team News Once again you'd expect Nathan Jones to wring the changes between cup and league football, so we should expect to see Ibrahim Fullah in the starting eleven once more, especially as he was named in the twenty man squad for the visit of Leicester City on Saturday.
Elsewhere and you'd expect starts for Tanto Olaofe and Charlie Kelman, with both having to settle for cameos on Saturday, and both will be going into this match, hoping to get off the mark with their first goals for the club. One question mark in the side surrounds the gap left by Alex Mitchell... the Centre-Back faced Stevenage in the last round, yet has since departed on a season long loan to Plymouth Argyle, is this the ideal opportunity for Reece Burke to gain valuable minutes, in what has been an injury hit start to his Charlton career.
Must admit that looks like a great line up but anything that doesn’t resemble our Championship starting eleven doesn’t help the primary objective and that is the Championship match on Saturday. Learn the lessons from last season, what fucked up our form and had us staring at the relegation spots was inconsistency in the lineup and what turned it around and got us to the play offs and promotion was consistency in the starting eleven.
We have to work too hard to risk first teamers in games like that . We went up last year so it didn’t go too badly
Would like to see Tanto cement a place in the league starting 11 tonight. Loved his cameos so far and think he deserves a go.
Would also like Kelman to get a few chances in front of goal to prove himself. So far he's been underwhelming but you can't argue with the obvious talent he showed last year. Football is a confidence game. Give him 90 to get some of that back
A chance for players to show that they deserve a first team chance and a chance for the L2 side and their farmyard pitch to knock us down a peg or two. Tricky game but we should prevail, 1-0 to the Addicks.
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Got an actual squad we can rotate. I would like to see Costello, Knibbs, Kelman and Tanto all get 90 minutes.
Hoping we go with Kelman & Tanto as I believe once we get going, that will be our most promising front 2.
Think we will win 3-1
Would also like Kelman to get a few chances in front of goal to prove himself. So far he's been underwhelming but you can't argue with the obvious talent he showed last year. Football is a confidence game. Give him 90 to get some of that back