Players Marks: Charlton v Portsmouth

Amos: 8.5
Solly: 5.5
Konsa: 6
Sarr: 7
DaSilva: 8
Aribo: 6.5
Marshall: 6.5
Forster-Caskey: 5
Clarke: 5
Holmes: 5
Magennis: 4

Live stream (hopefully that's an assumed with me)

Amos: 8 - +1 for the penalty save. Maybe our most underrated player this season. Couldn't do anything for the goal which was a really, really good ball in.

Solly: 4.5 - He was ridiculously hard done by for the penalty, and won't hold that (see what I did there?) against him. But outside of it he was poor. He looks like he's lost 3 yards of pace just over the course of the season. Especially with the ball he looks like he's running in slow motion. He remains a good 1-v-1 defender but it's just too easy to play around him.

Konsa: 7 - Solid with the exception of the Pitman chance where he blasted over. Noticed this two or three times now, most notably with Rochdale's goal, when the ball is out wide on the right he can get caught in that no man's land where he doesn't quite close down the space to stop any cross coming in, but he lets him man drift 2-3 yards away from him.

Sarr: 7.5 - Solid as per. It's him +1 at the back for me. I wouldn't drop him for Pearce in a million years, and I wouldn't force him to play on the right for Pearce either.

DaSilva: 7.5 - Everything good that happened in the first half came from him. His turn of pace is ridiculous for this league. The foul that lead to their goal was actually a really good bit of defending where he got across their player, got shoved, and...gave away a free kick somehow.

Aribo: 6 - First half good, second half not so good. In the first half he looked more than capable. In the second half he was all over the place. He constantly got dragged out of position, and he didn't really seem to know where he should be playing. He has all the tools to be good at this level, but he needs to have a better understanding of his role and play alongside someone who isn't JFC (both of which should fall on Robinson).

Marshall: 4 - He's rapid and two-footed and I've always wondered why he was playing at this level if he was as good as his billing. The answer is, he touch is poor, and his crossing is erratic to poor. He takes three touches to get the ball under control, at that point has been closed down, and either runs into a blind alley, knocks the ball off the defender for a throw, or crosses to the first man. If he can't knock it in to space and run he doesn't seem to know what to do. Need to see a lot more from him.

Forster-Caskey: 5.5 - Probably no worse than Aribo, and he also didn't seem to know what position he was playing, or did a terrible job of executing. It would have been natural to play him in. the deepest midfield role taking the place of Kashi. But to do that he needs to be positionally disciplined, and either he did a terrible job at it, or he wasn't given that remit.

Clarke: 3.5 - Don't remember a single thing he did. Shocking.

Holmes: 5 - When the goals aren't going in for Ricky, he seems to run out of ideas quickly and becomes a very predictable player. He will run at a player, not beat them, check back on to his left, and loft a cross into the box. He's been in a bad run of form of late, and I think because of past contributions he's gotten a let off. But for me, his position should be up for grabs the same as anyone's with Fosu and Reeves coming back and KAG in form.

Magennis: 4.5 - He looked poor, but to be fair to him what's he to do when all crossed are just sort of lofted into the box and the ball is played long to him. The Pompey defenders were very smart to just step off him, knowing that even if he won his headers there wasn't anyone around him.

Ahearne-Grant: n/a
Best: n/a
Reeves: n/a

Robinson: 2 - I've largely been supportive of him but yesterday was poor for many reasons. We didn't have any coherence going forward. Whatever rehearsed plays we looked to have at the start of the season have gone. We neither pressed nor sat deep. We got to the edge of the final third then ran out of ideas. Billy Clarke was non-existent. Aribo and JFC didn't seem to know which one was the sitting midfielder and both got dragged out of position.

And the substitutions. Clarke should have been off after 60. With a game where you're struggling for control, why bring KAG on when you have Reeves on the bench? That's not a knock at KAG, he's obviously in form, but the game didn't need him, it needed someone to put their foot on the ball and dictate.

This is a really important time in the season for Robinson. This is really where he is going to need to spend a lot of time on the training ground with players working on their roles, their defensive shape, and their movement without the ball. It should be noted that pretty much everyone had a bad game yesterday, and that we've had a lot of injuries. But it clearly feels like we've sort of hit a brick wall. All teams go through it, good teams find a way past it. He has to get us playing more intelligently and more quickly in the final third. We have to stop lumping balls to Josh. We have to get that self-belief with the ball at our feet back.

Also, where was Dijksteel yesterday?

Amos: 6.5 saved a penalty. At least he tried
Solly: 4.5 would have been a 5 but we needed a captain out there and he's no good at it
Konsa: 5
Sarr: 5.5
DaSilva: 6.5
Aribo: 5.5 did ok first half
Marshall: 5
Forster-Caskey: 5.5
Clarke: 6
Holmes: 4 needs to pass the one time he laid on a cross Mag and KAG were late so might as well have shot
Magennis: 4 needs a rest

Ahearne-Grant: at least ran at them
Best: looked good when he came on. Relatively speaking
Reeves: n/a

Amos: 9
Solly: 5
Konsa: 6
Sarr: 7
DaSilva: 8
Aribo: 6
Marshall: 5
Forster-Caskey: 5
Clarke: 5
Holmes: 5
Magennis: 5

Amos: 7 motm for keeping the score down and not just the penalty sve.
Solly: 6
Konsa:6
Sarr: 6
DaSilva: 6
Aribo:
Marshall: 6
Forster-Caskey: 6
Clarke: 5 did very little
Holmes:5 Sorry his passing, corners and free kicks shockingly poor
Magennis: 6, his hold up play was good

Amos: 8.5
Solly: 4
Konsa: 7
Sarr: 6.5
DaSilva: 6
Aribo: 6.5
Marshall: 5
Forster-Caskey: 5.5
Clarke: 6.5
Holmes: 5
Magennis: 5

Amos: 8
Solly: 6
Konsa: 4
Sarr: 5
DaSilva: 8
Aribo: 4
Marshall: 4
Forster-Caskey: 6
Clarke: 5
Holmes: 5
Magennis: 7

Anyone giving Magennis more than 4 wasn’t there or is on a wind up.