Charlton Athletic v Wycombe Wanderers
Saturday 8th September 2018 … 3pm Kick-Off
Referee: Graham Salisbury
IntroductionCharlton return to the Valley this weekend having recorded maximum point’s last time out… Despite the troubles at the end of the game, the 2-1 win at Southend was proof that Lee Bowyer’s side should be able to compete with the majority of teams this season and once again clouds any potential predictions about where Charlton may end up in May.
This Saturday we welcome the first of the newly promoted sides to the Valley this season with Wycombe Wanderers making the relatively short trip down from Buckinghamshire, lets see if Charlton can cage the Beast and record back to back wins for the first time this season!!
The OppositionName: Wycombe Wanderers |
Manager: Gareth Ainsworth
Ground: Adams Park
The beauty of the lower leagues in the Football League is the amount of promising Managers that appear to exist, unfortunately few get a chance to manage higher than League One and the likes of Paul Tisdale never truly get a chance to show what they can really do.
Another one of those is Gareth Ainsworth and despite visiting the Valley today as the oppositions manager, he’d certainly be a good fit for the Valley hot seat if ever the opportunity arose – As an ex-player he was a battling midfielder notably for Queens Park Rangers, he’d end his career at Wycombe which due to financial constraints in 2012 morphed into the Managers role and six years on, finally achieved promotion back to the third tier.
As a team; Wycombe are built on experience and will be a tough nut to crack on Saturday; Adebayo Akinfenwa is legendary in the lower leagues and will prove a strong physical battle for our defence, whilst the likes of Matt Bloomfield and Marcus Bean have appearances a plenty in the middle of the mark – Results have been mixed for the Chairboys yet they’ll be up for a battling match on Saturday, it’ll be Bowyer’s job to ensure we don’t end up in a scrap!!
Charlton Team NewsWell as one player returns they’re instantly unavailable again – Throughout the summer, Charlton have clearly been missing Tariqe Fosu so it was a relief seeing him back on the bench against Southend, due to the melee at the end of the game; Fosu is now suspended for three games so the wait will go on for his full return.
Tuesday night saw another young Addicks side in the Football League Trophy with Ben Reeves gaining some much needed minutes, a return to the bench will be likely for him this weekend whilst Jamie Mascoll could also be pushing for a spot on the bench – Also having a troubling game last weekend was Patrick Bauer who should return having been substituted early in the second half at Southend due to illness
New signings; Jamie Ward and Josh Cullen will be missing this weekend as they spend time on International Duty.
Phillips
Solly | Bauer | Pearce | Page
Lapslie | Bielik | Pratley
Ajose
Grant | Taylor
Substitutes Bench: Steer | Sarr | Dijksteel | Reeves | Marshall | Vetokele | Hackett-Fairchild
PredictionThere are signs that Charlton’s season is slowly grinding into life… With just three points separating us and the Play-Offs this’ll be a good chance to start climbing the table as we enter a phase of the season where a number of wins should be picked up – Wycombe though wont turn up and just roll over though, so every Charlton shirt will need to be on their game if they want the win
Comments
My usual sources of the Football League website and Zetaboards forum have zero information on them
Going by Bowyer's positive comments on Tuesday night I'd be surprised if he's left out for two weeks in a row
Ajose might be replaced by Marshall. Prediction: we win 2-1.
Lapslie with a steamer of a goal.
Whack the Wycombe week.
We are going up.
I guess there is a chance he could be back in contention for Wycombe and presume Bowyer will say something about him in his weekly press conference (is the problem with me writing the Preview before then as can usually make a few of my predications redundant)
Agree with the original post line up. Taylor will score again and go on a run of goals now I think.
Charlton Athletic 3-0 Wycombe Wanderers
Hate to say it but I think he's the replacement if anything happens to Taylor unless Bowyer completely changes the formation as we dont really have another target man (Vetokele or Ajose being the replacement for Grant if he were to get injured)
Wycombe Wanderererrers 0 v CAFC 2 ((:>)
wycombe ( 6 pts )
bradford ( 6pts )
plymouth ( 2 pts )
2 wins and a loss or 1 win and 2 draws would suffice, think we will win this 2-0.