Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic v Cambridge Utd: Thursday 26th December 2024: KO 3pm

LoOkOuT
LoOkOuT Posts: 10,857
in General Charlton
Boxing Day fixtures are always a welcome occurrence over the holidays, particularly this season on the back of Charlton’s emphatic 5-0 victory over Northampton Town. An unchanged Charlton starting eleven picked up exactly where they left off against Northampton, pressing and pressuring from the off. It was Tyreece Campbell bursting down the right side and battling against the defender to poke home the opening goal on just thirty seconds! And the Addicks home faithful didn’t have to wait too much longer for the second. On twenty minutes, Tyreece Campbell pressured the keeper who failed to get a hand on a corner that swung into the box. Miles Leaburn kept above everyone to nod it home. Cambridge weren’t effective at all and were lucky to not concede more.

Cambridge made changes to start the second half to good effect and were soon back in it. On 51 minutes, Kachunga prodded home from close range from a Cambridge counterattack that the Addicks should have done much better to blunt when it started back up the pitch. However, that moment of complacency provided Cambridge with a foothold and for the next ten minutes they threatened to equalise. Charlton were able to see off the pressure and were soon back in the ascendancy. Two goals were enough in the end to see all three points staying in SE 7.

Unfortunate not to keep another clean sheet but the points are what counts the most. Charlton are playing much more effective football that’s much easier on the eye.

Charlton 2 Cambridge 1

Over to you.
«13456789

Comments

  • TheHerminator
    TheHerminator Posts: 751
    A month ago we’d have drawn that. 

    Good in patches with plenty to be positive about. 

    Need to step up again next game but a win is a win 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    Amazing start but didnt capitalise. Not expecting another 5-0 but being 2 nil up after 15 mins we shouldn't be holding on for the last 30 mins. 

    Should have freshened it up much much earlier. I know we have another game in 3 days time but so do all the other teams. 

    3 points but didnt go anywhere in the table & still 4 points off the play offs. 6th is a pipe dream tbh. 
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,728
    edited December 2024
    Great to get back to back wins over Christmas, but I'm a long way from being convinced we've turned a corner. Still look very poor at times, and Cambridge got in and around us a bit too easily.

    Thought Small had a good game but no one else really stood out for me. Reyes the worst keeper I've seen in a long time 
  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune Posts: 10,773
    edited December 2024
    Thought the strongest we looked was after Cambridge scored, before then we were very average without getting out of 1st gear. 

    Not a vintage game, but I didn’t feel worried at all after we went 2-0, which is something.

    Wycombe going to offer a very different challenge, but one that historically we seem to have stepped up to.

    Hopefully we can keep the momentum going. 
  • MintoHumbugs
    MintoHumbugs Posts: 753
    TheHerminator said:
    A month ago we’d have drawn that. 

    Good in patches with plenty to be positive about. 

    Need to step up again next game but a win is a win 
    Under Appleton we would have lost it, conceding 2 injury time goals.
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,035
    First half was excellent, second half we never reacted to their sub and tweaks at half time and made life harder than it really should have been. 

    Thought TC and Leaburn showed real potential as a front pair and Small was excellent for someone playing on the wrong side. Will be a nice problem for NJ to have with Ramsay back to compete with Small and Edwards for the 2 fullback slots. 


  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune Posts: 10,773
    golfaddick said:
    Amazing start but didnt capitalise. Not expecting another 5-0 but being 2 nil up after 15 mins we shouldn't be holding on for the last 30 mins. 

    Should have freshened it up much much earlier. I know we have another game in 3 days time but so do all the other teams. 

    3 points but didnt go anywhere in the table & still 4 points off the play offs. 6th is a pipe dream tbh. 
    Where as I agree you would hope the score wouldn’t have been so close after our good start - we really weren’t holding on for the last 30 minutes at all. 
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,677
    TheHerminator said:
    A month ago we’d have drawn that. 

    Good in patches with plenty to be positive about. 

    Need to step up again next game but a win is a win 

    And last couple of years we'd have lost.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,766
    edited December 2024
    One point ahead of where we were last season after 21 games. This time last season our 22nd game was the 1-0 defeat at Orient which started a run of 8 defeats in 10.

    Seven and eighteen points behind our promotion seasons in 18/19 and 11/12 respectively.
  • Sponsored links:



  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,640
    It was a must-win and we won. Compared to most of the last couple of seasons I'll take that.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    edited December 2024
    Very encouraging I’d say…..played it around on the deck to nice effect for the most part……let’s stick with that tactic.
    Defence was very solid I thought, with Jones yet again a stand out performer.

  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    Consecutive wins is obviously very welcome but  ultimately I’m left feeling a bit flat at the end of that. 2-1 at home to a terrible team doesn’t fill me with hope for the next few games. I don’t think Wycombe will be too concerned at the prospect of playing us. 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,562
    Callumcafc said:
    When we sacked Appleton we had 30 points from 28 games.

    We have 30 points from 21 games this season.
    Oh goodie. Dunno what you are on but again today that was unacceptable. Very poor indeed. We won but I got no pleasure out of that. Anyone who thinks that's good enough has low standards.
  • Powell2ThePeople
    Powell2ThePeople Posts: 385
    golfaddick said:
    Amazing start but didnt capitalise. Not expecting another 5-0 but being 2 nil up after 15 mins we shouldn't be holding on for the last 30 mins. 

    Should have freshened it up much much earlier. I know we have another game in 3 days time but so do all the other teams. 

    3 points but didnt go anywhere in the table & still 4 points off the play offs. 6th is a pipe dream tbh. 
     @golfaddick  So 4 points from 6th with 25 games to go and playoffs are a pipe dream?      I know it's frustrating at times, but goodness me.       Did Santa bring one of those glasses that's half empty?   ;)

    TheHerminator said:
    A month ago we’d have drawn that. 

    Good in patches with plenty to be positive about. 

    Need to step up again next game but a win is a win 
    @TheHerminator  Well said.   You must have got the half full glass..!      :p


  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,890
    Callumcafc said:
    When we sacked Appleton we had 30 points from 28 games.

    We have 30 points from 21 games this season.
    That Oil Tanker is indeed slow turning ! 😉😆
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,055
    LargeAddick said:
    Callumcafc said:
    When we sacked Appleton we had 30 points from 28 games.

    We have 30 points from 21 games this season.
    Oh goodie. Dunno what you are on but again today that was unacceptable. Very poor indeed. We won but I got no pleasure out of that. Anyone who thinks that's good enough has low standards.
    Stats are neutral, you can read into them whatever you want. Personally I take pleasure when we win but each to their own
  • TheHerminator
    TheHerminator Posts: 751
    Uboat said:
    Consecutive wins is obviously very welcome but  ultimately I’m left feeling a bit flat at the end of that. 2-1 at home to a terrible team doesn’t fill me with hope for the next few games. I don’t think Wycombe will be too concerned at the prospect of playing us. 
    They genuinely weren’t that bad? 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,562
    fenaddick said:
    LargeAddick said:
    Callumcafc said:
    When we sacked Appleton we had 30 points from 28 games.

    We have 30 points from 21 games this season.
    Oh goodie. Dunno what you are on but again today that was unacceptable. Very poor indeed. We won but I got no pleasure out of that. Anyone who thinks that's good enough has low standards.
    Stats are neutral, you can read into them whatever you want. Personally I take pleasure when we win but each to their own
    What stats? I was commenting on what I saw with my own mince pies.
  • Sponsored links:



  • TheHerminator
    TheHerminator Posts: 751
    LargeAddick said:
    Callumcafc said:
    When we sacked Appleton we had 30 points from 28 games.

    We have 30 points from 21 games this season.
    Oh goodie. Dunno what you are on but again today that was unacceptable. Very poor indeed. We won but I got no pleasure out of that. Anyone who thinks that's good enough has low standards.
    If you don’t get any pleasure at all out of a win, then you’re doing it wrong. 

    I feel sorry for you 
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,001
    I think we can probably say that based on that, no corners have yet been fully turned... but we're in the right lane and there's definitely good things to take from it.

    A baffling inability to remain solid for the entire 90 minutes remains a flaw, there's an argument that the Cambridge subs did us a favour too, but we did hold out and two goals and three points gives optimism to at least an extent.
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,055
    LargeAddick said:
    fenaddick said:
    LargeAddick said:
    Callumcafc said:
    When we sacked Appleton we had 30 points from 28 games.

    We have 30 points from 21 games this season.
    Oh goodie. Dunno what you are on but again today that was unacceptable. Very poor indeed. We won but I got no pleasure out of that. Anyone who thinks that's good enough has low standards.
    Stats are neutral, you can read into them whatever you want. Personally I take pleasure when we win but each to their own
    What stats? I was commenting on what I saw with my own mince pies.
    You quoted a post with stats on...
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,766
    LargeAddick said:
    Callumcafc said:
    When we sacked Appleton we had 30 points from 28 games.

    We have 30 points from 21 games this season.
    Oh goodie. Dunno what you are on but again today that was unacceptable. Very poor indeed. We won but I got no pleasure out of that. Anyone who thinks that's good enough has low standards.
    Apologies that the improvement in points collected doesn’t meet your standards.
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,857
    Callumcafc said:
    One point ahead of where we were last season after 21 games. This time last season our 22nd game was the 1-0 defeat at Orient which started a run of 8 defeats in 10.

    Seven and eighteen points behind our promotion seasons in 18/19 and 11/12 respectively.
    Fortunately, it seems we’ve had our extended blip (best case scenario) and will kick on with a chance, though to be truly competitive at the top end we’re a minimum of two top-class players short.
  • redlanered
    redlanered Posts: 2,195
    edited December 2024
    Uboat said:
    Consecutive wins is obviously very welcome but  ultimately I’m left feeling a bit flat at the end of that. 2-1 at home to a terrible team doesn’t fill me with hope for the next few games. I don’t think Wycombe will be too concerned at the prospect of playing us. 
    Back-to-back wins and no league defeat in 4. Plenty of Wycombe fans will be thinking "we're playing them at just the wrong time".  We'd feel the same if the positions were reversed 
  • SouthWest_Addicks
    SouthWest_Addicks Posts: 6,307
    When you go 2-0 up early against a relegation candidate you are kind of expecting to put them to the sword, but unfortunately the opposite happened and we let them become competitive and had to grind out a win. 

    8 points gained from a possible 12 points has allowed 5th & 6th place to become a possibility again. Still plenty of football to be played and the hope that we finally have a good January transfer window. 


  • Hartleypete
    Hartleypete Posts: 4,699
    We did enough to scrape over the line, not particularly pretty but 3 points and move on.
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,055
    https://x.com/LouisMend/status/1872333875671867587

Categories

“Marketplace”