A poor pitch and an awkward wind make conditions difficult today, in what was a scrappy affair for both sides.
The Addicks opened scoring with a penalty won and dispatched by Alfie May a few strokes into added time before the end of the first half. Fleetwood left it relatively late, mounting a bit of a comeback on eighty minutes. Their goal came from a lapse at the back that allowed midfield substitute Ryan Gradon through on goal and clumsily poke the ball in off the post. With the momentum now with the home side, Harry Isted kept us in it with a cracking point-blank save. A debut for Kazenga LuaLua, replacing Daniel Kanu, almost paid off when he had a chance to put fellow sub Freddie Ladapo through, but he put it just out of reach. Ladapo had a chance in the box before the final whistle but the ball just wouldn’t sit down and was eventually poked wide after a goal-mouth-scramble.
The equaliser came as a difficult blow at the end of a slog of a match. Fleetwood benefit in their attempt to claw themselves out of relegation and Charlton remain on a decent unbeaten run.
Fleetwood 1 Charlton 1
Over to you.
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One best quickly forgotten. Difficult conditions and a lack of quality on both sides led to a truly awful game. Should have won, could have lost. Another point. Move on.
We’ve never enjoyed playing there, one big Fosu performance in 2017 aside.
The sooner they are in League 2 and we can get another bogey ground off our list of away games the better.
Fleetwood, the kind of side, that makes you hate league one. Never a pleasure to watch them or play at their ground.
The pitch was awful, with the ball bouncing around like a soft ball. Conditions were horrendous cold and windy.
8 unbeaten. Let's just move on.
Man of the match? Everyone of our fans who travelled today, spent hours getting there and a fortune doing so, who then had to watch that. You are all heroes.
We are incapable of defending long throws. Our midfield was guilty of misplaced, short passing and crossing. The defence is still guilty of comical errors.
Blaming the conditions and the pitch is not good enough. Not many years ago most pitches were like this and players rose above it if they were good enough.
I think NJ will need to clean out the defenders and start again.
Couple of weeks now to rest up before we go again.
We never ever do well against Fleetwood at their own ground and the pitch certainly did us no favours but I will say that if Jones is going to actually transform the team next season then winning games like this one needs to be something we learn to do.
Still unbeaten in 7. Still in decent form. Hopefully just a bad day at the office, and learn from this then move rapidly on.
either side. Similar to Northampton that we should have never let them back in the game and should have run 1-0 winners.
My only gripe is that NJ did the subs 15-20 mins too late.
Overall he’s pleased with the run of results after coming in we were one point above the bottom four and now we’re 10 or 11.
Fair play to Isted. He hasn’t impressed me at all but today he made two big saves and we’d have lost without them.
One of the lowest quality matches I’ve ever watched, at a professional level at least.
Still fear what TT and Gillesphey will do when under pressure,