The less said about the first half the better. Charlton made hard work of even the basics and found themselves down 1-0 after 37 minutes to former academy prospect Reece Hackett-Fairchild. It was a cagey affair, but going a goal down before the half made the mood significantly worse.
Surprisingly, Alfie May was substituted on 64 mins to make way for Chuks Aneke. Not long after, Daniel Kanu made way for Freddie Ladapo. An inspired second half, though far from convincing, showed more fight than in recent weeks. Chuks Aneke lifted the mood significantly, raising the atmosphere from the Covered End, and bringing a cutting edge to the attack. Creating absolute chaos at times, his power forced through an opportunity for Ladapo, who blasted the Addicks level. The tension relieved somewhat, the Addicks pushed on. Camara and Edun came on to provide fresh legs for the final wave of attacks. Unfortunately, with Lincoln on the back foot for most of the remainder, Charlton weren’t able to find another. Still, a point is helpful and a platform on which to build.
Honours even at the Valley.
Charlton 1 Lincoln 1
Over to you.
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Our squad and team is imbalanced.
Until I look and see we're playing Bolton so that's a point if we're very lucky.
Personally i think Jones just has to use these next 3 games to figure out his best team/formation and then we can attack things in March when we play the lower sides.
A point helps but is not enough.with that performance Portsmouth will get their first win in ages over us.
The only slither of saving grace is that part of me thinks they played that way today to practice for the next three where a direct approach is probably the best solution. But I think that's very optimistic of me.
Not sure how you can turn up and play like that tonight and think you are gonna win the game more than not. Created hardly anything.
Early days obvs, but that was about as bad of a game of football I've watched in ages. Just lumping it.
The first half is what we will get without Aneke otherwise.
Subs made all the difference, Camara brought energy, Aneke some quality and Ladapo a great finish. Even Edun looked lively.
Covered end really got behind the boys at times too, can’t remember the last time the fans were as loud at the end.
Next three games are going to be extremely tough
Get through those in touch with 20th spot, and we stand a chance
Aneke and Ladapo looked decent together so hopefully we can keep them, and Camara fit.
May on the other hand... I'm aware its going to be frustrating for him as a Striker, especially given the lack of Service he's received in recent weeks, but it feels like Jones wont put up with those not putting in a shift, or be bedazzled by stats. Very disappointing display from him, especially when you compare his efforts to Kanu, who had the same service but didnt know what a lost cause was.
Hope that Ramsay was subbed as a precaution more than anything, looked a decent Full-Back, and ironically; Tennai does look slightly better over on the Left, than he does the right... Edun too looked slightly better for being dropped after Saturdays performance.
Not taking that result with too much positivity, still on my guard as this is Charlton.
Still a long way to go between now and the end of the season, lot of minutes to be played by all sides - But if we CAN play like what we did in the second half, then we've given ourselves the slightest of chances... I've said the word: "slight" a lot I know!!
And that we're having to beg for Aneke to come and rescue us again.
Like the look of Ramsey - just hope he isn't injured. Hopefully just cramp but worried it's his hammy.
If Chuks was fit for just 45 minutes every game we'd be a lot higher in the league.
Glad Dobbo is still here but it wasn't his best game for us tonight. Poor header that led to their goal.
Glass half empty = haven't won in 15 & have the top 3 to play before the end of the month. Then we play teams around us. If we dont get 3 or 4 wins before Easter we are down.
On February 13th, I would say the performance. This is a team so devoid of confidence that I think they might need one of two games like today to put things together, even if the final result isn't what you want.
It wasn't a great performance. The first half the team looked terrified, especially in possession. Good team talk at halftime, good come from behind point. That said, we were a couple of balls ricocheting around in their box and it just takes one touch for us to win.
Getting to bring Chuks on in the 60th minute changes a game. And hopefully we keep him fit AND he gives the rest of the side a boost, knowing that they can run harder and press and try to get their noses in front because when Chuks comes on it can be a different game. Technically he got the assist as well.
Bolton, Portsmouth, Derby. I think the most important thing is not letting heads drop too much during that spell. I would say some of our best football has come against better sides this season. The last two times we looked halfway decent for more than 10 minutes were against Oxford and Peterbrough. And we lost. But our run in isn't bad. And maybe playing with some of the pressure off knowing we're up against the big sides where we're not expected to get anything will help.
I am more hopeful now than I was an hour ago. But Nathan Jones really has his work cut out for him. He has to find a way to get that first team both defending better but also looking even somewhat competent in possession.
I honestly do not think we will go down and think NJ will keep us up 👍
Pretty much all of our wins this season have come from a moment of magic from either CBT or Aneke and the genius that is Andy Scott decided to sell one of them without a replacement. We are absolutely 100% reliant on an 8 or 9 game run from Chuks otherwise I’m certain we’ll be down.
We also looked better going forward when May went off. Kanu did his best to win a few but the inability to get the wingbacks forward just resulted in aimless lumps up.
That would require 3 draws and going unbeaten against the top 3, a huge feat at this stage of the season, or actually beating one of them, a huge feat for us as it snaps the winless run