I think we’re cursed. Hopefully that’ll lift soon so we can get past this odd period.
We started off the afternoon with great spells of possession. Lincoln seemed content to leave us to it and break on the counter. This worked, because we failed to make our possession count. We came close, but not close enough. We struck the crossbar and blazed shots wide. It wasn’t long before Lincoln broke through on the counter and took the lead. Still, that wasn’t the worst of it. Gilbey lost his head and collected two yellow cards in the span of ten or so minutes and was sent off. At that moment, the two teams shifted with Lincoln playing a patient possession game and Charlton looked to counter.
In the second half, Jacko made no immediate substitutions. We held our own and looked to counter, but the game had yet another twist in it. Lincoln’s number 7 threw himself into a challenge on Purrington that resulted in a straight red card! The game was back on! That was until the third twist. Lincoln broke away and scored from a good individual effort down Charlton’s right. We continued to battle and came close on a number of occasions, but couldn’t force a goal until it was too late. Forster-Caskey made his season’s first-team debut, coming on for a spent Fraser. The Charlton goal came from a Forster-Caskey corner which found Stockley’s head. We had a couple of chances in extra time, but the equaliser wasn’t to be. Washington came closest with an effort that blazed inches wide of the far post. On another day, Stockley and Washington could have had hat-tricks (including one close call from Stockley where the ball looked to have crossed the line before the keeper, deep in his own goal, parried the ball away).
Ever-frustrated.
Over to you.
Charlton 1 Lincoln 2
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So great to see JFC back. He showed he's absolute class at this level and didn't look off the pace at all. So happy for him.
Can't make playoffs
Can't go down.
One thing I'm convinced of though is this squad of players is nowhere near good enough for promotion.
Nothing we as fan's can do about it all we can do is hope Sandgaard JJ and the recruitment team get it right this summer.
Positives were CBT and JFC's return. That's it though.
Stockley frustrated the shite out of me again. He is a lazy footballer. Leko is a lemon.
Jacko won't get us promoted next season.
So, Lincoln are the latest team to have a hoodoo over us. We've got more bogies than Fungus after a bad cold.
At least we don’t have to suffer Gilbert Tuesday.
Hope he goes and takes Fraser with him. I would rather play Albie Morgan!
Dobson does anything good that happens in central midfield anyway.
This fella must have been fkin freezing