Cheltenham visited the Valley rooted to the bottom of the table and facing their former talisman striker Alfie May. This was not a classic affair and nothing of note will live long in anyone’s memory. Cheltenham were strong and direct, keeping mostly organised behind the ball and were the first to score, launching a counter attack that resulted in a leaping header and a befuddled Valley. Not long after, a lapse in concentration gifted Charlton a penalty when Miles Leaburn was needlessly hacked down in the box. Alfie May dispatched the penalty to level things up. Unfortunately, that was the last of young Miles’ contribution as he limped off with a leg injury after landing awkwardly from a reaching challenge. Charlton had opportunities, mainly through Corey Blackett-Taylor, but couldn’t manage the necessary breakthrough.
Charlton started the second half slowly and looked to be going nowhere slowly. Suffice to say, Cheltenham gifted us another, somewhat more dubious penalty when the ball hit a defenders upheld arm. Alfie May stepped up again to fire us into the lead.
Charlton had the best of chances but once again failed to capitalise. Coupled with routine defensive frailties, it’s not good enough. Still, the three points are welcome, if laboured, and we’re still in with an outside chance of scraping the playoffs.
Charlton 2 Cheltenham 1
Over to you.
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Bottom of the league team, we win with two penalties due to a terrible tackle and a handball with their keeper having no saves to make. The League's top scorer marooned on the wing.
Appleton out. Rubbish.
Him and CBT are gonna drag this team kicking and screaming to the play offs at this rate
Describes it as the best victory by far under his reign.
Deluded
Fucking freezing
Played crap
But got 3 points
Going home happy but cold
That was terrible!
If this current ownership are serious about getting us out of this division then they will put their hands in their pockets and go and get players of a similar quality to support him.
We are some way short as things stand.
They might not get another chance!
Win with 2 penalties against bottom of the league and he says it's his best win. Screams midtable.
The second half was much more disappointing though. Tedic looked quite dangerous when he first came on, but in the second half he missed a sitter and his overall play was poor too.
May far too often seemed to be away from the danger zones, just like Saturday he was far too often playing as a genuine winger, rather than a right sided striker.
Defensively, opposition strikers seem to lose our CBs too easily. Far too often we ended up with the full backs marking them and not surprisingly conceding headed chances.
and 1 of them was bolton who are gonna win the league