High-flying Sheffield Wednesday came to SE7 looking to consolidate their lead at the top of League One. Eight minutes in, they found their opener when Charlton parted the Red Sea leaving Liam Palmer wide open to slot a right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Sheffield Wednesday consolidated their dominance throughout the half, happy to concede the wealth of possession to a bland Addicks side finding it difficult to conjure anything going forward. Sheffield Wednesday could have gone into the break two or three to the good, having wasted a couple of chances.
The second half saw improvement from Charlton as the Addicks found a footing and Wednesday wobbled. There was more attacking intent, troubling the keeper on a few occasions and hitting the post, but nothing found the back of the net. Chuks Aneke came on for Kilkenny to partner a returning Miles Leaburn and immediately forced their keeper into a save. Unfortunately, injury struck Aneke down again and he was forced off on a stretcher. We pushed on from there, but a goal seemed just beyond our reach.
It’s clear we don’t have enough to out compete the top sides. Sheffield Wednesday were a machine at times, doing everything to keep their advantage and nullify any momentum we tried to generate.
Charlton 0 Sheffield Wed 1
Over to you.
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team full of players who should be released, but unlikely to be due to lack of investment and takeovers.
More injuries, woeful defending.
Next up: Peterborough, who this afternoon tonked start-of-day joint-leaders Plymouth 5-2.
What a time to be alive.
Please, will somone pull the pin on this season now.
Quite interesting how we’ve been outdone in completely different ways by 3 of the top 6 in recent week. Bolton were a level above and played great football, whereas Wednesday went for the no-skill-just-play-dirty approach. I thought they were exactly what you need to get out of this league, big shit kickers with not much skill who are excellent at the dark arts and taking advantage of the weak refs at this level. They looked pretty average but assume that’s because they never needed to get out of first gear against a toothless team.
I thought Claire had a good game and is a better player as a wing back in a five man defence.
Season over .
Ordinarily it would be time to start planning for next season but Charlton are such a shit show , we don't know who will own us or even manage us come the end of the season.
Even though i'll be at Peterborough and Cambridge in the next few weeks , i really lost all interest.
Only difference this time around is Wednesday didn’t manage to get a 2nd goal to kill the game and our momentum like Derby did, so we ‘threatened’ for longer:
We can easily get sucked into the mess down below as we simply have no ability other than in a few players.
Yes I know people think we're safe but this is Charlton... We don't do safe... In fact I'm not sure what we do anymore it's an absolute basket case of a club from top to bottom.
I still love them but boy they make it tough.
Still onto Peterborough for another masterpiece.
I was slightly surprised by the Wednesday tactics actually, as they seemed happy to manage the game at 1-0 from early on, rather than pushing on for a decisive second goal in the first half, when we were terrible.
We improved a bit after the break, but Leaburn and Aneke going off killed any momentum we had been generating.
We’re a mid table team, and we will end up in mid table.
He's deteriorated the club month by month on and off the pitch and yet still has the gall to play his poxy ditty before games.
Worse than Duchatelet in my book and he was an utter nause.
Nothing will change while he's pulling the strings.
Not scored in the last 2 games
Ownership issues that mean that we don't really know who will own the club by season end
Manager's contract expires at season end
9 points off relegation
The Valley pitch is poor and doesn't suit our style
Lack of competent strikers with one possible out injured for the foreseeable
This all adds up to a relegation battle.