After a long international break, Charlton travelled north to Huddersfield in hopes of gaining both points and confidence to inspire a run in the right direction. Conditions weren’t ideal. A side depleted through injury were met with swirling winds and relentless, torrential rain that made the afternoon quite challenging. The first forty-five minutes were all action. Charlton fell behind on thirteen minutes through Huddersfield’s left midfielder, Michel Miller who got his head on the end of a corner and headed past Ashley Maynard-Brewer. Not long after Miller had another opportunity that he should have scored. Thankfully, his effort didn’t find the back of the net. With Charlton still in it, the equaliser came when Edmonds-Green forced contact in the area and went over. Matty Godden converted the penalty to bring Charlton level. Then, another twist changed momentum again, when Charlton captain Grey Docherty’s late challenge resulted in an instant, rather harsh, dismissal.
Down to ten men, Charlton started the second half brightly. Conversely, Huddersfield looked complacent and soon the visitors would put them under continual pressure. Charlton came close to scoring through Leaburn, who seemed to delight in causing the Huddersfield back line, and in turn their fans, problems. The whole second half turned quite contentious. It was Huddersfield that prevailed through the conditions with their one man advantage to take the lead on sixty three minutes through a long-range Kasumu effort that flew past Maynard-Brewer. Where I thought the keeper could have done better with the goal, there were saves to come that offered partial redemption. Charlton pressed for a second equaliser which never came, despite come clear opportunities that fell to the battling strikers, Leaburn and substitute Ahadme.
Middle table obscurity is inevitable unless some substantial quality is added in January.
Huddersfield 2 Charlton 1
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0 wins in the previous 5 games.
1 win in the previous 9 games.
I’ll never give up on Charlton but I’m getting pig sick of the terrible quality of the football week after week. We never seem to turn up until the players have had their regular half time bollocking.
Yet again we were awful in the first half and might easily have gone in at the break 2 or 3 down. A very soft penalty gave us a foothold but a terrible tackle by Docherty and the resultant deserved sending off made our job even harder. Amazingly, we played better in the second half with 10 men but couldn’t hold out for a draw.
Our defence looked very shaky again. It’s clear that Lloyd Jones is the commanding aerial presence we need and we’re missing him badly. Alex Mitchell looks a long way short of his early season form.
Miles Leaburn was our star player by a long, long way and he came close to scoring with a flashing header but we still lack that clinical touch in front of goal. It was Ahadme’s turn to miss an absolute sitter today, in much the same way that Godden and Mitchell spurned gilt edged chances at Exeter.
We’ve just got to get a result at Burton. Not normally too big an ask but with our current crap form I wouldn’t put too much money on that happening.
Grim season and having spent £200 to go to Northampton am questioning my sanity.
We look what we are- a mediocre mid table league one club with a lovely stadium that is too big for us who sell half n half scarves v Wrexham. That's where we are now and have been for years. Long may it change and quick.
Jones has assembled a truly awful side. No quality and no creativity. Ahadme and Hylton up top at the end summed us up perfectly - completely ineffectual.
Quite an achievement to be so bad season after season...
But let's be honest, it's nearly time to start looking at the bottom of the table, not the top. And if Leaburn is now out for any time, we really should start looking at the bottom 4's results.
Sums it all up for me that we ended up with Ahadme and Hylton up front. Ahadme may get the odd goal but he is hopeless. And Hyton isn't a joke, he's just a complete idiot for trying to take a quick free kick to a player in an off side position when we had a free kicjk in a really dangerous position.
And Jones is an embarrassment. Booked again, throwing himself to the ground, non-stop moaning. It's not a good look.
Injuries or not you don’t expect the football to be this dire, Southend knocked it round better than us.
I'd love to know what the owners are thinking, cause this is genuinely unacceptable. The quality of player is dire.
However, the current side have no fluidity, midfield is static going forwards, and the defence without Jones and Ramsay is poor.
Miles needs help, he needs someone to deliver balls into the box.
Once we went to 10 men we looked a bit better, but that's not saying much.
We must beat Burton and Walsall, this side needs confidence. Finally the owners need to dig deep and get some playmaker's into the side.
It’s going to take another season at least to get this right. Madness to call for Jones to be sacked even though I agree the hoof ball is shocking.