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POST-MATCH THREAD; Exeter City v Charlton Athletic ; Saturday 4th February 2023 ; KO 3.00 pm
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Charlton started slowly before finding their feet and scoring two goals in fairly quick succession to stun an Exeter side that like to attack. Rak-Sakyi opened Charlton’s account on 8 minutes with a glorious finish on the volley from an equally impressive through ball from a lively George Dobson (“Ben Jay forever in our hearts!”). CBT’s attacking down the left was effective and, ten minutes later on 18 minutes he found the back of the net to put us two up.
A defensive mistake let Exeter back in it on 31 minutes, which threatened to take the wind out of the Addick’s sails and make the second half a bit nervy.
Fortunately, Charlton found enough to ensure Exeter wouldn’t. In the second half, Exeter were kept at bay and never really got going. Some fairly solid defending disrupted Exeter’s forward play. The second half was quite scrappy, to our advantage.
Four wins from five, we have a bit of momentum despite the last week’s loss to a strong Bolton side.
AMB with an outstanding save late in extra time to ensure that the Addicks came away with the important away win.
Exeter 1 Charlton 2
Over to you.
A defensive mistake let Exeter back in it on 31 minutes, which threatened to take the wind out of the Addick’s sails and make the second half a bit nervy.
Fortunately, Charlton found enough to ensure Exeter wouldn’t. In the second half, Exeter were kept at bay and never really got going. Some fairly solid defending disrupted Exeter’s forward play. The second half was quite scrappy, to our advantage.
Four wins from five, we have a bit of momentum despite the last week’s loss to a strong Bolton side.
AMB with an outstanding save late in extra time to ensure that the Addicks came away with the important away win.
Exeter 1 Charlton 2
Over to you.
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Up to 12th. Have that Bristol Rovers
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@cafcsinger they're irrelevant to the Charlton match. Happy for them to go on another thread.0
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AMB really saved us in that last minute.Great period in the first half for 20 minutes or so and we showed what we can do other than that it’s was a good defensive display.Not sure why Bonne starts would rather Leaburn but all in all a well earned 3 points, could of gone either way.0
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Pretty happy to be honest. We showed at times guts, class, trickery and only once made a very bad mistake and we're punished.
7/10 for me.0 -
Only words needed tonight.
This one's for you Ben, Sharon & Garry xx41 -
Under the Dean Holden we’re winning games we would have drawn or lost earlier in the season. Four wins in five, as opposed to a scattering of draws and losses as we shift the ball around the back, before inevitably cocking it up.25
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Despite the off field stuff, we’re really humming on the pitch. Credit to DH for that.
It’s easy to forget that that’s now four wins from five in 2023 - the one loss coming against a very good side who’ll be comfortably top five this season.
Exeter for all their huff and puff were limited to only one shot on target in the second half through strong defensive structure and hard running.
Kilkenny was impressive. Definite shades of Cullen in his play. His presence allows both Fraser and Dobson to focus on the stuff that they do well.27 -
Kilkenny really looks a good signing.23
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Great debut from Kilkenny. He’s very mobile and doesn’t half get about a bit!7
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Game wont live long in the memory, but thought I'd post the below link for ease lads...
https://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/80171/will-we-make-the-play-offs#latest
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Think we might have gone on to score 3 or more if we hadn’t had another defensive lapse. Completely changed the flow of the game and instantly put us on the back foot from there.It’s a shame as I felt we defended well today, but we are not going to claw our way up to anywhere near top 6 if we can’t keep clean sheets.Good hard fought win though, and any worry I might have had about Kilkenny and his lack of game time were very quickly dispelled. If he can keep up that sort of level of performance it bodes well for us.0
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Cheer up Dazzler21, we won and some fans like other scores, you can please ... etc.Dazzler21 said:@cafcsinger they're irrelevant to the Charlton match. Happy for them to go on another thread.3 -
A battling win on the road. Three more points. Four wins in the last five games. Two brilliant goals from excellent through balls. Lovely stuff.Exeter were no mugs and we weren’t at our best but we made the most of key moments.Kilkenny did well and grew into the game, despite hardly playing this season. Liked his engine and his battling qualities.
Edit: ps - the yellow card for holding the Ban Jay shirt up might be in accordance with the rules but it's still a disgrace.18 -
Bar the goals, watching JRS and CBT is beyond frustrating and demoralising. Both so capable, but constant heavy touches, losing possession consistently and failing to take on the man/wanting to slow the game down is infuriating!
prefer Leaburn to start the game, and bring bonne on later in the game - seems a better way to run the front line, Bonne chasing down the ball in the latter stages works so much better.
Kilkenny class, he'll look good next to dobson and fraser (if fraser pushes further up).
fullbacks exposed all game due to lack of tracking back/defensiveness from wingers, clare pretty poor throughout however.
we'll take the win, but pleasing to see Ness look more experienced and assured than innis - would like to see hector and ness together soon - Innis isnt an awful back up if needed.
Thought the subs came a bit too late, but it all worked out. good ground out victory, something we havent done under our last few managers
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Bonne scores more starting. Leaburn scores more subbed on (4/6)19addickted96 said:Bar the goals, watching JRS and CBT is beyond frustrating and demoralising. Both so capable, but constant heavy touches, losing possession consistently and failing to take on the man/wanting to slow the game down is infuriating!
prefer Leaburn to start the game, and bring bonne on later in the game - seems a better way to run the front line, Bonne chasing down the ball in the latter stages works so much better.
Kilkenny class, he'll look good next to dobson and fraser (if fraser pushes further up).
fullbacks exposed all game due to lack of tracking back/defensiveness from wingers, clare pretty poor throughout however.
we'll take the win, but pleasing to see Ness look more experienced and assured than innis - would like to see hector and ness together soon - Innis isnt an awful back up if needed.
Thought the subs came a bit too late, but it all worked out. good ground out victory, something we havent done under our last few managers
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Excellent performance, I'm so happy.
I was absolutely bricking it in those last 10 mins.4 -
DH has given this team its spirit back.....first things first the absolute nonsense from the ref in booking JRS for holding up a shirt in honour of Ben Jay is just funking awful. DH has just said it was his idea and he has apologised for asking the team to do it.
As for the game I only listened on Charlton TV...Im looking forward to seeing the goals....they sounded superb.
Kilkenny - a new Cullen or Gallagher in the making.....defo better than Morgan.
Can we now build on this 4 wins out of 5 games.......12 points from 15......lets keep this going.....very happy tonight......will be even happier when TS sells up!!!8 -
Hate to think how Morts coped ...Covered End said:Excellent performance, I'm so happy.
I was absolutely bricking it in those last 10 mins.2 -
Got a bit nervous playing against 12 men for the last 10 mins. Genuinely think we play better football under Holden than we did under Garner. Shame we've probably left it to late to try push for the play offs7
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Well pleased with the three points. We've won a few recently that could have gone either way - that's a good sign.
The biggest positive was the performance of Kilkenny. I've been calling out for an athletic midfielder and was disappointed when we signed someone who's 5'7". How wrong can you be.
Considering how few games he's played he was excellent - all energy for an impressive 97 minutes. He'll improve with matches too.
So relieved when the final whistle went - after a great save from AMB.1 -
Brilliantly taken goal from Bak Sakyi and Brooke Taylor was also composed.15
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To me, they are both strikers that would thrive in a partnershipDazzler21 said:
Bonne scores more starting. Leaburn scores more subbed on (4/6)19addickted96 said:Bar the goals, watching JRS and CBT is beyond frustrating and demoralising. Both so capable, but constant heavy touches, losing possession consistently and failing to take on the man/wanting to slow the game down is infuriating!
prefer Leaburn to start the game, and bring bonne on later in the game - seems a better way to run the front line, Bonne chasing down the ball in the latter stages works so much better.
Kilkenny class, he'll look good next to dobson and fraser (if fraser pushes further up).
fullbacks exposed all game due to lack of tracking back/defensiveness from wingers, clare pretty poor throughout however.
we'll take the win, but pleasing to see Ness look more experienced and assured than innis - would like to see hector and ness together soon - Innis isnt an awful back up if needed.
Thought the subs came a bit too late, but it all worked out. good ground out victory, something we havent done under our last few managers
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Obviously whilst we’re winning games you’re always going to feel positive towards the manager, but either way the stuff he mentioned his post match interview around Ben Jay I thought was really classy.8
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It was an odd game. We weren't in it until the goal, then we were in total control until their goal when Exeter moved into the ascendency again.
We couldn't seem to keep the ball in the second half, apart from in our own half, but defended well and AMB made a fantastic save at the end.
Ness has done so well, and continued his good form today and Kilkenny looked very bright. We probably wouldn't have got him without the Holden connection.
It wasn't pretty but thanks to the goals from Beksiaki and Brooke-Taylor, it was 3 points well won.2 -
What's happened to JRS's name!? Has he been hashtag Curbs'd!0
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Think they'd be good together.letthegoodtimesroll said:
To me, they are both strikers that would thrive in a partnershipDazzler21 said:
Bonne scores more starting. Leaburn scores more subbed on (4/6)19addickted96 said:Bar the goals, watching JRS and CBT is beyond frustrating and demoralising. Both so capable, but constant heavy touches, losing possession consistently and failing to take on the man/wanting to slow the game down is infuriating!
prefer Leaburn to start the game, and bring bonne on later in the game - seems a better way to run the front line, Bonne chasing down the ball in the latter stages works so much better.
Kilkenny class, he'll look good next to dobson and fraser (if fraser pushes further up).
fullbacks exposed all game due to lack of tracking back/defensiveness from wingers, clare pretty poor throughout however.
we'll take the win, but pleasing to see Ness look more experienced and assured than innis - would like to see hector and ness together soon - Innis isnt an awful back up if needed.
Thought the subs came a bit too late, but it all worked out. good ground out victory, something we havent done under our last few managers
3-5-2 (we don't have enough CBs fit yet) or 4-4-2.
I think we actually could go 4-4-2 with Dobson and Gavlar.
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I think they'd work together, but we can't risk playing 2 central forwards with Aneke not providing any form of backup atm.6
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A win away from home is always good. Reasonable distance from the bottom 4 now.
Keep it going!0
