Charlton travelled to Bolton looking to put their poor performance (and thumping!) at Rotherham to bed. Bolton have had their own problems and the first half proved a cagey affair. Despite some opportunities for each side in the first forty-five, all of the goals occurred in the second half.
Bolton came out in the second looking the better side and drew first blood on fifty-five minutes when Joel Randall burst into the box with plenty of space to put the ball past Ashley Maynard-Brewer. Bolton looked good for a victory but a change to a midfield diamond saw Charlton regroup.
The equaliser came through a Macaulay Gillesphey cross that found Lloyd Jones lunging into the box. His deft touch put the ball past the Bolton keeper and turned the tide in the visitors’ favour.
The winner came on eighty-six minutes when Charlton pressure produced a skied clearance that fell to substitute Karoy Anderson who nudged away his defender enough to take a touch and have a shot that was deflected over the Bolton keeper to complete the turn around.
Charlton return with three points and Bolton are left shaking their heads as their fortunes ebb away.
Bolton 1 Charlton 2
Over to you.
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What a turnaround. Although we battled hard it’s undeniable that we were outplayed for at least 60 minutes of that match. Great credit to Nathan Jones for the tactical and personnel changes that helped us turn it around. Yes, it was a fortunate deflection for our second goal but don't underestimate the skill with which Karoy Anderson turned to create the space for his shot.
A hard won win and three invaluable points going into our next two, very winnable, fixtures.
Delighted.
And I love hearing my Bruv happy.
Oh & Matete is a fecking dirty barsteward 🤬
But why don’t our players appeal for anything? Second yellow in the first half, the shirt pull on Chuks, the stamp on Small. Not saying they’re all decisions that should go in our favour but surely you at least appeal for them? Never gonna get anything from the refs if u don’t bother appealing.
Get in a couple decent players this January including a no10 who can knit the play together and help our attack flow and we could do it. This league is crap any team that puts a run together can get play offs.
Come on
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Well done Jones and the whole team. It took character and determination to win that.
Better to play badly and win than to play well and lose so that was very much mission accomplished.
N Jones has to get credit for using subs well and managing to genuinely turn things around mid-game, suspect he's going to have to put real thought into who gets the nod next time out but for good reasons for once.
A good result in the end and one of the games in hand as well, so 4 points off 6th, with another game in hand, this is getting interesting...