Charlton v Bradford - Post Match Views

NapaAddick said:

We have scored 16 league goals in 2019. That is 1.2 goals per match. We are not going anywhere past the first round of the playoffs with that.

Whats our conceding rate?

PWR

By no means a classic but we got the job done with 3 points.

I could stop here really. If we'd failed to score this game would be a contender for most boring home game of the season. @Len\'s_little_girl , who has had a busy week, actually dropped off for a few minutes in the second half which says it all.

Hard to select individuals good or bad really today from a performance where we did enough without really getting out of second or third gear. However Cullen caught my eye with a busy performance, making himself available and tidying up where needed. We will miss him when he returns to West Ham and maybe succeeds Noble. Taylor worked hard as ever and took his goal well. Not sure how he put that ball over an open goal from 6 yards though! My 4 year old grandson and the bloke who did the cross bar challenge at half time would have put that one away.

Nice to see a decent reception for Billy Clarke. Injury is what did for him at Charlton. I liked him and feel he would have been 'a better Ben Reeves' had he stayed fit.

Not much else to say really. Just glad we got the points.

COYR

A wins a win......and that's all we need at the moment. Nailed on for a play-off place (4th or 5th) but there's more chance of leaving with no deal in 2 weeks time than us getting 2nd place. 

As for the game.......

Should have been 3 up by half time but we never, and I repeat, never hammer teams. Cullen ran the show but the rest of the midfield were happy just to pass backwards & sideways. Need Beliek back in there as well as Fosu. Don't know if LB had asked for the pitch to be watered as much as it was but players were slipping all over the place. Dijikstel had a good game but only started putting in decent crosses with 20 mins to go & his best attribute is his pace. Purrington is an average L1 defender & never takes his man on. Poor. The rest of the team done just enough to win. Taylor MOTM for his tenacity after that appalling miss. Only player to shoot all game. 

Play offs will be completely different as I'm not expecting Pompey or Donny to park the bus. 

The right result, but a poor game and mediocre performance really, the lack of intensity was a bit concerning

Not convinced our team balance is right, as we were desperately slow and it's while it's good for Lyle to drag defenders out wide, in the second half he was almost playing like a left wing back. Surely it can't be right that when the opposition have a break, your main striker and goal threat is the one chasing back and indeed getting back well before the midfield lumbered back? No wonder he looked shattered by the end.

Cullen impressed with his effort AND creativity, he might be the holding player but he also has the ability to make really clever passes. As for the rest of the midfield, I'm not sure Williams, Aribo and Reeves is the right combination, a fit JFC would be a real asset to this team as he is more of a box to box player, and our other "energetic" midfielders like Pratley and Lapslie are perhaps not at the required level at the moment.

Surprised Chicksen was on the Bradford bench, as their LB had a mare in the first half.

Really can't see what Williams brings to the team - lots of effort but very little end product.

redman said:
 More slightly worrying was that Bradford should have got a couple and missed a couple of sitters probably easier than Taylor's. 

No way. 

Reeves, Williams and Cullen as a trio are a bit unthreatening. Bielik adds so much, and we missed him today.

I think someone told the team at half time that we were going to win 1-0, so they took their collective foot off the gas. 

Bedsaddick said:

Todds_right_hook said:

Bedsaddick said:

I can’t remember a game where we played so badly yet won so comfortably. Just goes to show how bad Bradford were.
too many players strolling around like it was a friendly. Dijksteel was awful . Williams no better . I forgot Reeves was playing until he came off and Aribo was far too casual. Igor isn’t the same player of two years ago but I think we all knew that.
Taylor should have has a Hatrick . All that and we won ! 
Cullen ran the midfield as he has done nearly every time he’s played . 
Awful game but hey ho . Three points in the bag .

Play like that against Luton and we’ll get mullered.

What did dijksteel do that made him awful? In the second half he was pushing up and beat the full back time and again and won a few corners although the final ball could be better. He kept the ball and used it well. He made one mistake in the second half but recovered to win back possession. It was his best performance in a charlton shirt and If that was solly pushing on like that, there would be lots of praise and man love.......unless I missed something?

In the first half he had so many opportunities to put the ball into the box but could get it past the first man . Second half he was marginally better but he still struggled . Give me Solly over him all day long . As for it being his best game in a Charlton shirt - I have no idea what game you was watching. Just have a look at the players ratings.

Dijksteel is playing a lot better than Solly . He’s more solid defensively , much quicker and gets into much better attacking positions.  Sure, he gave the ball away a couple of times today and his delivery was poor .  I don’t think it was his best game but it wasn’t that bad.

wmcf123 said:

Bedsaddick said:

Todds_right_hook said:

Bedsaddick said:

I can’t remember a game where we played so badly yet won so comfortably. Just goes to show how bad Bradford were.
too many players strolling around like it was a friendly. Dijksteel was awful . Williams no better . I forgot Reeves was playing until he came off and Aribo was far too casual. Igor isn’t the same player of two years ago but I think we all knew that.
Taylor should have has a Hatrick . All that and we won ! 
Cullen ran the midfield as he has done nearly every time he’s played . 
Awful game but hey ho . Three points in the bag .

Play like that against Luton and we’ll get mullered.

What did dijksteel do that made him awful? In the second half he was pushing up and beat the full back time and again and won a few corners although the final ball could be better. He kept the ball and used it well. He made one mistake in the second half but recovered to win back possession. It was his best performance in a charlton shirt and If that was solly pushing on like that, there would be lots of praise and man love.......unless I missed something?

In the first half he had so many opportunities to put the ball into the box but could get it past the first man . Second half he was marginally better but he still struggled . Give me Solly over him all day long . As for it being his best game in a Charlton shirt - I have no idea what game you was watching. Just have a look at the players ratings.

Dijksteel is playing a lot better than Solly . He’s more solid defensively , much quicker and gets into much better attacking positions.  Sure, he gave the ball away a couple of times today and his delivery was poor .  I don’t think it was his best game but it wasn’t that bad.

Really don't see Dijksteel as a 'lot better' than Solly - he's athletic and is okay on the ball but he wasted numerous attacking opportunities today. His crossing in the first half was shocking.

His positioning also needs work on it - definitely a work in progress. He has more pace than Solly and is able to use it to recover.

Crusty54 said:

wmcf123 said:

Bedsaddick said:

Todds_right_hook said:

Bedsaddick said:

I can’t remember a game where we played so badly yet won so comfortably. Just goes to show how bad Bradford were.
too many players strolling around like it was a friendly. Dijksteel was awful . Williams no better . I forgot Reeves was playing until he came off and Aribo was far too casual. Igor isn’t the same player of two years ago but I think we all knew that.
Taylor should have has a Hatrick . All that and we won ! 
Cullen ran the midfield as he has done nearly every time he’s played . 
Awful game but hey ho . Three points in the bag .

Play like that against Luton and we’ll get mullered.

What did dijksteel do that made him awful? In the second half he was pushing up and beat the full back time and again and won a few corners although the final ball could be better. He kept the ball and used it well. He made one mistake in the second half but recovered to win back possession. It was his best performance in a charlton shirt and If that was solly pushing on like that, there would be lots of praise and man love.......unless I missed something?

In the first half he had so many opportunities to put the ball into the box but could get it past the first man . Second half he was marginally better but he still struggled . Give me Solly over him all day long . As for it being his best game in a Charlton shirt - I have no idea what game you was watching. Just have a look at the players ratings.

Dijksteel is playing a lot better than Solly . He’s more solid defensively , much quicker and gets into much better attacking positions.  Sure, he gave the ball away a couple of times today and his delivery was poor .  I don’t think it was his best game but it wasn’t that bad.

and he made an important block in the penalty area near the end of the match.

A great block, though to be fair it was his mistake which set up the Bradford attack in the first place!

Very weird situation, Play-Offs all but guaranteed with seven games still to go - but no real chance of top two finish.

We have to get the next phase right, last year we had run out of gas by the time we played Shrewsbury, this year we need to hit the Play-Offs full throttle to give ourselves the best chance.

Pompey and Sunderland are both vulnerable, they both could have had automatic promotion but dropped off, that increases the pressure on them.

paulie8290 said:

PWR


what happens at HT not for the 1st time in recent weeks the players never came back out for the 2nd half, very slow and no effort in the 2nd

Also Igor and Lyle look like strangers, not expecting them to have the understanding that Grant and Taylor had, but they look like they have no cohesion at all 

Paulie, promise me you're going to lose the PWR bug mate. You're better than that! (No one cares!!)

Dijksteel is a work in progress, at the start of the season he got nosebleed if he advanced past the halfway line.

Now he is getting into much more advanced positions and starting to take on his marker, ok a lot of his centres were blocked today.

He is learning and continually improving, and strong defensively with a good technical level.

Stick with him i say, especially as - sad to say Solly is not getting any better.  

Has Igor “kicked on”?