The critics for Lennon are wrong. Sadly the culprit is Da Silva as teams deliberately target him. Within 15 seconds of the start a ball flashed across our goal after a long ball over his head. The issue however is that the management team can't see it.
Lovely player on the ball and created our second goal but is being targeted defensively
Also watch it again and it was a right back who equalised to make it 2 - 2 hardly someone who should be marked by Lennon
One of the opposition managers (sorry, i forget who) pointed out the weakness in charlton's fullback was one of their main targets to exploit. Dasilva gets up the pitch a lot so its easy to get in behind on his side. Oxford got in behind him after 30 seconds today. And still, robinson doesnt fix it
Harry Lennon. I love an academy kid coming through as much as anyone but he is so cumbersome and mistake prone.
Spot on... they sussed out he was our weak link and capitalised on it. Quick incisive counterattacks two touches and the ball was in the net... three bloody times! Shambles at the back and no-one getting stuck in in the middle.
what a nightmare , with 2 mins to go, My Acca was up rest of the teams won or winning by 2 or more goals, with charlton winning the cashout was 375 for a bet which only returned 405 anyway so I thought knowing Charlton i better cash out clicked on cashout when my phone decided to die, when i plugged it back in and loaded up Ladbrokes we were 3-2 down , weekend ruined
what a nightmare , with 2 mins to go, My Acca was up rest of the teams won or winning by 2 or more goals, with charlton winning the cashout was 375 for a bet which only returned 405 anyway so I thought knowing Charlton i better cash out clicked on cashout when my phone decided to die, when i plugged it back in and loaded up Ladbrokes we were 3-2 down , weekend ruined
We have an abundance of talented, skillful footballers - but they tend to over-elaborate; why try to beat the same player three times when sometimes a simple pass will suffice? It's all about decision-making and too many of our lot make the wrong decision. To be fair it was a very open game - Oxford certainly didn't put 9 guys behind the ball, just the sort of team set-up that we should be capitalising on?
We have an abundance of talented, skillful footballers - but they tend to over-elaborate; why try to beat the same player three times when sometimes a simple pass will suffice? It's all about decision-making and too many of our lot make the wrong decision. To be fair it was a very open game - Oxford certainly didn't put 9 guys behind the ball, just the sort of team set-up that we should be capitalising on?
Text my mate at HT I'd be amazed if both teams didn't score
Cracking game to watch. Oxford deserved the win. They could have scored six or seven. Both our goals came for their errors and for all our endeavour and pretty play we actually created next to nothing. I predicted it with ten to go. We have some excellent attacking players but chose the wrong option time after time. Fosu the main culprit. But defensively we are a joke. Both full backs were abject defensively and the two centre half's were conference standard in the second half.
We have the makings of a fine team but there are a couple of glaring weaknesses. Marshall has no pace and no left foot. And we need Bauer and Pearce back together pronto. And our system just invites teams onto us.
Why bring on 2 subs at the same time who only have been at the club for less than a week, who have not played in the team before or played together. Taking Marshall off for Zyro left Solly totally exposed and no outlet down the right side as Zyro kept drifting in the middle, KR needs to put his hand up for the bad subs.
Thought all our defenders were shit in the second half - once Oxford realised how crap they were they just ran past them. Unfair to single out any of them as they were all guilty - one of the worst capitulations I've ever seen.
We couldn't put in a decent final ball for much of the game and Fosu/Marshall seemed unable to pass. We played some decent stuff but were very wasteful.
A shocking end to the game - looked like a bunch of headless chickens. I'm sure like most of our support I'm f***ing furious....
Gutted. My heart sank when I saw the Konsa/Lennon CB pairing when I arrived in the ground. That's our worst CB combination imho. Hats off to Oxford who played ok, but had a great last ten minutes. Dasilva is an enigma. Great player, but when targeted he struggled badly today. As did Solly and the back four generally. In the past KR has brought on Sarr for Dasilva to stop the bombardment, but we didn't have that option today. I was concerned after the window 'slammed shut' that we lack a bit of steel in midfield, and arguably so it proved. JFC had a good game, but why stop when through on goal. At 3-1 we were clear. Have no idea why Robbo didn't shore up the defence, rather than bringing on Aribo. Is Bauer not fit enough? He was on the bench, so he should have been. Playing three (five) across the back would probably have helped us see out the game.
A pretty depressing afternoon, only alleviated slightly by some other results going our way. Thanks, SCP!
Harry Lennon. I love an academy kid coming through as much as anyone but he is so cumbersome and mistake prone.
Spot on... they sussed out he was our weak link and capitalised on it. Quick incisive counterattacks two touches and the ball was in the net... three bloody times! Shambles at the back and no-one getting stuck in in the middle.
In a 4-4-2 the LM would help out / cover an attacking full back failing which the remainder of the back 4 should at least shuffle across. In a 5-4-1 there should in theory be even more cover options.
However we know that KR loves his preferred 4-2-3-1 formation but it's no good trying to play free flowing attacking football if you don't defend as a unit and that doesn't just mean the back 6 it starts at the front 4. It's not rocket science that if you do neglect the defensive side of the game then you need to score four or more to win, as evidenced today which needs to be a salutary lesson.
Still all to play for but KR needs to sort it pdq, tactics and formation wise, if he wants to keep his job longer term.
If you're an Oxford fan that was fantastic, as a Charlton fan it was predictably miserable and for a neutral it was excellent. A second half where it all happened, and considering Oxford hit the woodwork twice it ought to have come as no surprise. The late game capitulations that we are getting so good at, has got to be down to management and coaching. With the possible exceptions of an under par Solly and Lennon, the players did their best, and to my mind followed their instructions well, it is the set up and instructions that are very questionable. Having a double substitution when it happened was wrong. Mavididi being injured was a situation that needed to be contemplated in isolation, and if Marshall was tired after his trip abroad it should have been anticipated properly and the change made with control. Instead it looked as if Karl couldn't wait to play with his new toys, and the Aribo change unsettled us further. Obika hit the bar with a great effort, the introduction of James Henry was a masterstroke, and Oxford another decent honest team, who had a good attitude throughout the game worked hard and got their reward. Feeling as pissed off as I am it is hard to mention positives, but they were actually there even if any points weren't. Our best player was Magennis in my view, being pivotal and prepared to take the hits, and being so competitive today, he allowed others to express themselves with more freedom. The pattern of second half home disintegration this season is not now about one offs but established in our play and I fear that snatching defeat from the jaws of victory has condemned us to another season at this level and a departure of a lot of good players. Today was about Robinson getting it wrong and it was a very wounding result.
It's all very well highlighting how they were getting behind da Silva, but, and I hate having to say this, they were getting behind the other full back too.
Most people seemed surprised Aribo had been dropped, and it didn't seem like such a bad sub as I thought Fosu was played out. In retrospect it wasn't a good sub at all, and as people said, Curbs would have sent on Jacko or Bauer.
Gutted because I thought we played well for most of the second half, going forward at least.
But if you were one of the impressive away support, that's an awayday you'll talk about for a long time.
Harry Lennon’s Body language was awful after their first goal. He had a very bad afternoon but then again he is our 4/5th choice CB after Pearce, Bauer, Konsa and likely Sarr if all fit.
JFC I just don’t see the point of. Never seen him have a decent game, utterly ineffectual, can’t tackle, rarely sets anything up and his dead ball play is worse than Sunday League standard. When he broker through with a clear run in goal and wasted the chance by waiving his hands around for a foul it about summed him up. How Aribo and Reeves don’t start in front of him I have no idea. KR’s love child I think.
Well done to Oxford, figured out how to beat us and did it well.
Oxford played very well but to get nothing from a game when you’re 2-1 up after 88 minutes (especially at home) is pretty inexcusable. Our inexperience showed but we really should have been able to close it out.
I thought we played some nice stuff in the first half, with Mavididi skinning their right back at will, but we lacked the final ball and/or killer instinct in the box to make it count. At the same time, Oxford looked dangerous and got behind us on a number of occasions on our left side, as we continued to look vulnerable at the back.
Overall, I thought they were better than us in the second half but we managed to get ourself in front twice and to then squander some very good positions with poor decision making when we were outnumbering our opponents in the final third. It looked as if that profligacy would not come back to bite us but, ultimately, poor defending proved our downfall. I thought we were very shaky in both full back positions and centrally in relation to long, bouncing balls down the middle. The late collapse was not all the fault of the back four, though - our central midfield players seemed to go missing in the last ten minutes and Oxford played through us at will. Their last two goals came from an abject failure to put pressure on the ball in our final third, compounded by the failure of our midfielders to track runs from their opposite numbers, who, completely unmolested, had plenty of time to steady themselves and crack the ball into the net.
Overall, a sporadically good but disjointed performance, where we lacked solidity and always looked liked conceding. I reckon you would have got pretty good odds on Kashi and Magennis scoring in a home defeat but that’s somehow where we ended up.
We need to get some experience back into central defence, consider bringing Dijksteel in at right back and KR needs to have a think about the overall balance of the side. In the meantime, let’s hope that Mavididi’s injury is not serious because he is undoubtedly a match winner.
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Not a slight, skillfully, pacey winger.
No idea what the set up was when he came on.
Defeat from the Jaws of victory
How we managed to switch from 4-2-3-1 to 4-2-4 when protecting a 2-1 lead will piss me off for the rest of my time.
We have the makings of a fine team but there are a couple of glaring weaknesses. Marshall has no pace and no left foot. And we need Bauer and Pearce back together pronto. And our system just invites teams onto us.
Can’t wait to see a team of:
Solly Bauer Pearce Dasilva
Kashi Forster-Caskey
Fosu Mavididi Kaikai
Magennis
We couldn't put in a decent final ball for much of the game and Fosu/Marshall seemed unable to pass. We played some decent stuff but were very wasteful.
A shocking end to the game - looked like a bunch of headless chickens. I'm sure like most of our support I'm f***ing furious....
My heart sank when I saw the Konsa/Lennon CB pairing when I arrived in the ground. That's our worst CB combination imho.
Hats off to Oxford who played ok, but had a great last ten minutes.
Dasilva is an enigma. Great player, but when targeted he struggled badly today. As did Solly and the back four generally. In the past KR has brought on Sarr for Dasilva to stop the bombardment, but we didn't have that option today.
I was concerned after the window 'slammed shut' that we lack a bit of steel in midfield, and arguably so it proved. JFC had a good game, but why stop when through on goal. At 3-1 we were clear.
Have no idea why Robbo didn't shore up the defence, rather than bringing on Aribo. Is Bauer not fit enough? He was on the bench, so he should have been. Playing three (five) across the back would probably have helped us see out the game.
A pretty depressing afternoon, only alleviated slightly by some other results going our way. Thanks, SCP!
And folks, it's Mavididi, not Malvididi.
However we know that KR loves his preferred 4-2-3-1 formation but it's no good trying to play free flowing attacking football if you don't defend as a unit and that doesn't just mean the back 6 it starts at the front 4. It's not rocket science that if you do neglect the defensive side of the game then you need to score four or more to win, as evidenced today which needs to be a salutary lesson.
Still all to play for but KR needs to sort it pdq, tactics and formation wise, if he wants to keep his job longer term.
If you're an Oxford fan that was fantastic, as a Charlton fan it was predictably miserable and for a neutral it was excellent. A second half where it all happened, and considering Oxford hit the woodwork twice it ought to have come as no surprise.
The late game capitulations that we are getting so good at, has got to be down to management and coaching. With the possible exceptions of an under par Solly and Lennon, the players did their best, and to my mind followed their instructions well, it is the set up and instructions that are very questionable. Having a double substitution when it happened was wrong. Mavididi being injured was a situation that needed to be contemplated in isolation, and if Marshall was tired after his trip abroad it should have been anticipated properly and the change made with control. Instead it looked as if Karl couldn't wait to play with his new toys, and the Aribo change unsettled us further.
Obika hit the bar with a great effort, the introduction of James Henry was a masterstroke, and Oxford another decent honest team, who had a good attitude throughout the game worked hard and got their reward.
Feeling as pissed off as I am it is hard to mention positives, but they were actually there even if any points weren't. Our best player was Magennis in my view, being pivotal and prepared to take the hits, and being so competitive today, he allowed others to express themselves with more freedom.
The pattern of second half home disintegration this season is not now about one offs but established in our play and I fear that snatching defeat from the jaws of victory has condemned us to another season at this level and a departure of a lot of good players. Today was about Robinson getting it wrong and it was a very wounding result.
Most people seemed surprised Aribo had been dropped, and it didn't seem like such a bad sub as I thought Fosu was played out. In retrospect it wasn't a good sub at all, and as people said, Curbs would have sent on Jacko or Bauer.
Gutted because I thought we played well for most of the second half, going forward at least.
But if you were one of the impressive away support, that's an awayday you'll talk about for a long time.
Good to meet @AshBurton and others.
JFC I just don’t see the point of. Never seen him have a decent game, utterly ineffectual, can’t tackle, rarely sets anything up and his dead ball play is worse than Sunday League standard. When he broker through with a clear run in goal and wasted the chance by waiving his hands around for a foul it about summed him up. How Aribo and Reeves don’t start in front of him I have no idea. KR’s love child I think.
Well done to Oxford, figured out how to beat us and did it well.
How many saves did their keeper have to make.
Pleased for Josh as, clearly, were the rest of the time. He showed his class in his celebration as well as his all round game.
Otherwise disjointed performance, poor game management and sloppy defending.
The new boys looked a little lost but still early.
Worst I've seen from Dasilva defensively.
I still don't think 4231 suits us but the formation wasn't the reason we lost.
Credit to Oxford for some good football, energy and good subs. Obika was running Konsa ragged.
And the ref was good.
Under 10k home fans again? Haven't seen the numbers.
I thought we played some nice stuff in the first half, with Mavididi skinning their right back at will, but we lacked the final ball and/or killer instinct in the box to make it count. At the same time, Oxford looked dangerous and got behind us on a number of occasions on our left side, as we continued to look vulnerable at the back.
Overall, I thought they were better than us in the second half but we managed to get ourself in front twice and to then squander some very good positions with poor decision making when we were outnumbering our opponents in the final third. It looked as if that profligacy would not come back to bite us but, ultimately, poor defending proved our downfall. I thought we were very shaky in both full back positions and centrally in relation to long, bouncing balls down the middle. The late collapse was not all the fault of the back four, though - our central midfield players seemed to go missing in the last ten minutes and Oxford played through us at will. Their last two goals came from an abject failure to put pressure on the ball in our final third, compounded by the failure of our midfielders to track runs from their opposite numbers, who, completely unmolested, had plenty of time to steady themselves and crack the ball into the net.
Overall, a sporadically good but disjointed performance, where we lacked solidity and always looked liked conceding. I reckon you would have got pretty good odds on Kashi and Magennis scoring in a home defeat but that’s somehow where we ended up.
We need to get some experience back into central defence, consider bringing Dijksteel in at right back and KR needs to have a think about the overall balance of the side. In the meantime, let’s hope that Mavididi’s injury is not serious because he is undoubtedly a match winner.