Only watched it on Sky but a few impressions on how the team played:
Sam Sodje & Mills immense today. Good saves by Weaver.
Fortune quick on his feet & Basey did well, got up and down the flanks, good blocks, good crossing, you'd never think it was only his 5th match.
Samedo - good positional play, intercepting and mostly found a red shirt with his passing. ZZ always in the thick of it, Reidy didn't appear so influential today. JT superb in the 1st half but well policed in the 2nd.
Big Chris a bit isolated 2nd half but took a battering. Sam promised but didn't really deliver but still a handful for Preston Both Ends.
Holland didn't look match fit when he came on but Ambrose was calm, composed and good distribution - looked a good player especially when he covered in centre mid after Reidy was subbed.
And a big hand for the Awayday Addicks - 2nd half especially you could hear them. Red Army!
A good days work. Back to 2nd place, 5 points behind Watford.
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My only quibble being that we have to get a few more goals and kill the game off, 2-0 looks convincing, but the second goal didn't come until the 93rd minute, and that always leaves the door open for a late equaliser.
Coming after the International break and with PNE having a new manager, this was a potential banana skin game. With pretty much all the results going for us, this was a very big result.
Well done everyone who went and got behind the lads.
Come on you Reds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They were all hero's especially ZZ and Weaver.
Just about to have my fourteenth cup of coffee!!
Can't see me getting a goodnight. :-)
Varney scoring for me is a highlight, hopefully he will push on now.
What, if any chants could be heard on the tv?
I vow never to do a coach journey again this season, painful to say the least! Tannoy message at the end was all a lie, there was no hold up or major traffic accident on the M6.
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Fair play to you boys, I'd have loved to go but had to work and I'm brassic and I'm sure I should have more money than you!! ;-)
Heard Valley floyd road, you're grounds too big for you, and at least one 'OH SOUTH LONDON'!
You done well mate and put the rest of us plastics to shame
weaver was awesome, 3 top saves to get us another clean sheat and varney beasted his goal at the end - hope he takes that confidence with him. sodje a rock as ever and mills was class, another 3 points... we are going up!
In terms of our performance I thought we were pretty professional and looked the better side by a mile but we do need to kill games against inferior opposition sooner rather than later.
It was strange avoiding the internet deliberately all day TBH.
also had to screen all phone calls & avoid certain mates around town!!
Let's just hope the time for the west brom game is better...
On a personal note it's the first time the Lass & I have watched Charlton win for about 18 months as Charlton's record in the NW has been pretty poor an d we seem to pick the wrong games (Barnsley) to watch at the Valley!.
Solid performance all round and we were far the better team.
Up the Addicks!
At Preston, his 1st half running with the ball cutting diagonally right through their central midfield completely unnerved them. They had no answer except to try & crowd him which created acres of space for Basey & ZZ to exploit.
But he did create the first goal by taking the ball to the byeline and squeezing his cross from behind the defence.
Penetration like that is so hard to defend and creates good chances easily. I know he's right footed but even so, why doesn't he get to the byeline more often?
In the 2nd half, JT was well policed - boxed into a narrow touchline channel always 2 & sometimes 3 defenders on him and no space for mazy runs. That created right-midfield & wing space for the overlapping Mills & Sam - which we should have used more productively before Varney showed how it could be done.
Reid not playing that well was a big bonus for me. Shows we are not totally reliant on him. Anyone asking what ZZ does for the team now
I thought Fortune looked very good and the partnership with Sodje just keeps getting better.
Not a great game but we were always on top and in the end it was a comfortable and professional away trip. One booking, no injuries that I saw, two goals from people we want to see on the scoresheet more often.
Is that our first away win in the North West since Anfield?
All I would add ,was that it was bloody freezing and was mostly pis*ing down before the game.
Raining again this morning (stayed overnight). Weather changed once we got about 50 miles South.
By eck it's grim oop North.
2nd half they pushed up to the halfway line and camped in our half - we should have had someone with pace upfront say Sam and played it over the top, because it kept coming straight back from Chris.
Holland came off the bench, has automatically leapfrogged Moo2 and Racon - not sure what he can offer to the side apart from "experience". He is woefully slow, doesn't tackle or carry the ball forward and rarely makes a forward pass.
But great show from the defence, perhaps Thatcher might go in the window because he is likely to be 2nd choice.
Might get down to West Brow , if not Sheffield in Feb.