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Oxford v Charlton | Good Friday | 1pm KO | Match Preview, Predictions, News & Views

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  • IanJRO
    IanJRO Posts: 691
    1-1 and play-offs beckon though I hope we can nick a win and keep the outside chance of autos alive for a bit longer
  • Aethelstan
    Aethelstan Posts: 542
    MrLargo said:
    ... only one Charlton manager has ever lost a home league game to Oxford (Clues: his first name sort of rhymes with "banal", his last name sounds a bit like "robbing scum") ...
    I cannot remember any manager called Anal Rubbing Bum. Was he Belgian?
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,432
    We'll snatch this one 3-2 It'll be full of goals, Oxford are conceding (Only 6 clean sheets since 01/01/19) but they're also scoring freely.



    Phillips
    Solly | Bauer | Sarr | Purrington
    Aribo | Cullen | Lapslie
    Williams
    Taylor | Vetokele
    Substitutes Bench: Maxwell | Dijksteel | Pearce | Bielik | Reeves | Pratley | Parker
  • DyerConsequences
    DyerConsequences Posts: 2,642
    Aethelstan said:
    MrLargo said:
    ... only one Charlton manager has ever lost a home league game to Oxford (Clues: his first name sort of rhymes with "banal", his last name sounds a bit like "robbing scum") ...
    I cannot remember any manager called Anal Rubbing Bum. Was he Belgian?
    Is he related to Anil Koc?
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,237
    edited April 2019
    Karl Robinson hopes Charlton get promoted which is very decent of him since the chubby, verbose, Roland Loving, Scouser left Cafc under a shit cloud of his own making when his stubbornness meant it was 4-2-3-1 every game despite the hard working but limited ability striker Josh Magennis being the one.

    Lee Bowyer has Improved Charlton in all areas and realized that you must have two strikers at this 3rd tier level if you want to win 23 games at least over the 46 game season for playoffs and 27 wins for autos.

    Oxford have won 13 and are mid table and should be thinking of their holidays. I'm sure Gobby is looking at the Costa brava web sites as he is eating his pie and chips.

    A tough game as Oxford won't commit to an open game like Luton did. I will go for 2-1 to Cafc because I want it so badly and the thought of being ahead of Sunderland and Pompey and up Barnsley's dirt box at 3pm on good Friday would keep the dream going for a while longer and the others sides are under more pressure than us because we had no chance of the auto's 4 games ago.

    Please let the cream rise to the top. (I will accept 2nd now!)
    COYR.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,398

    I just know from many years of following this football club that I expect a kick in the bollocks more than a gentle tickle. 

    BUT I will suspend my natural urges to say, I fully expect the Addicks to win on Friday.   There!

  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    soapy_jones said:

    I just know from many years of following this football club that I expect a kick in the bollocks more than a gentle tickle. 


    Are you Bielik?
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,773
    ForeverAddickted said:
    BR7_addick said:
    I fancy him to go with Pearce over Sarr and Pratley over Reeves, like you say, a turgid affair awaits us.
    I think he'll go Pearce over Sarr on Monday
    Agreed - I think we will see a few changes on Monday with an eye on keeping players fresh and ready. Oxford is the game that is most likely to require our best team and Sarr is currently in that group.
  • johnnybev1987
    johnnybev1987 Posts: 11,433
    1-1 Bye Autos :smile:
     
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,413
    I am going to shout myself hoarse at this game. We need a win. 

    Not forgetting that it was KR that brought LB home to CAFC so I expect old wobbly bits will be claiming credit whatever the result. 

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  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,366
    Difficult but why not 0-1 and the wagon keeps on rolling. 
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,896
    Nervy about this one as Oxford are playing well. 1-1
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 6,010
    Havent they won like the last 3 out of 4 against us if you count cup games?
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,729
    CAFCTrev said:
    Havent they won like the last 3 out of 4 against us if you count cup games?
    About time they lost then 
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,432
    21 Jan 2014Oxford United v Charlton AthleticW0-3FA Cup
    24 Sep 2016Oxford United v Charlton AthleticD1-1League One
    21 Feb 2017Charlton Athletic v Oxford UnitedL0-1League One
    17 Oct 2017Oxford United v Charlton AthleticD1-1League One
    09 Jan 2018Charlton Athletic v Oxford UnitedL1-1Football League Trophy
    03 Feb 2018Charlton Athletic v Oxford UnitedL2-3League One
    23 Oct 2018Charlton Athletic v Oxford UnitedD1-1League One
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,842
    Bogey team. Hoping we can do the business this time...
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,240
    We should win this. 0-1. 
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    There is no reason not to go for it. A draw or defeat will still be acceptable given our league position, but a win would ramp things up every which ways.
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,668
    LennyLowrent said:
    Will be in Kanazawa for this one, eating sea grapes and sea urchins for starter (2:0 to the Karls) but will come back with horse meat shavings in raw egg (Sarr hat trick) 2:3 final score, hard to swallow, but anything for 2nd spot. COYR
    And whale steak for mains?
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,658
    Robinson will look to be a spoiler and I see this as ending 1 - 1

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  • flyingkiwiDK
    flyingkiwiDK Posts: 5,727
    edited April 2019
    I think this will be our biggest win of the season. 5-1
  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,708
    Blackheathen said:
    LennyLowrent said:
    Will be in Kanazawa for this one, eating sea grapes and sea urchins for starter (2:0 to the Karls) but will come back with horse meat shavings in raw egg (Sarr hat trick) 2:3 final score, hard to swallow, but anything for 2nd spot. COYR
    And whale steak for mains?
    Sorry, on a 'Karl free' diet
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,841
    BR7_addick said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    BR7_addick said:
    I fancy him to go with Pearce over Sarr and Pratley over Reeves, like you say, a turgid affair awaits us.
    I think he'll go Pearce over Sarr on Monday
    Either or, I just think Scunthorpe are gonna come for a point so Sarr acts as another midfielder when we are attacking in that game.
    Fair point, but the way Pearce got the winner against Wycombe, you could say he acts as another forward when we're in their box.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,237
    AddicksAddict said:
    BR7_addick said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    BR7_addick said:
    I fancy him to go with Pearce over Sarr and Pratley over Reeves, like you say, a turgid affair awaits us.
    I think he'll go Pearce over Sarr on Monday
    Either or, I just think Scunthorpe are gonna come for a point so Sarr acts as another midfielder when we are attacking in that game.
    Fair point, but the way Pearce got the winner against Wycombe, you could say he acts as another forward when we're in their box.
    Sorry to be a party pooper BUT 20 goals in 418 appearances over 12 seasons (5 different League clubs) for Jason Pearce makes me believe your being a tad optimistic !
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Dazzler21 said:
    21 Jan 2014Oxford United v Charlton AthleticW0-3FA Cup
    24 Sep 2016Oxford United v Charlton AthleticD1-1League One
    21 Feb 2017Charlton Athletic v Oxford UnitedL0-1League One
    17 Oct 2017Oxford United v Charlton AthleticD1-1League One
    09 Jan 2018Charlton Athletic v Oxford UnitedL1-1Football League Trophy
    03 Feb 2018Charlton Athletic v Oxford UnitedL2-3League One
    23 Oct 2018Charlton Athletic v Oxford UnitedD1-1League One
    Grim record against them.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,488
    2-1 Oxford - dont feel confident.
  • king addick
    king addick Posts: 3,728
    soapboxsam said:
    AddicksAddict said:
    BR7_addick said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    BR7_addick said:
    I fancy him to go with Pearce over Sarr and Pratley over Reeves, like you say, a turgid affair awaits us.
    I think he'll go Pearce over Sarr on Monday
    Either or, I just think Scunthorpe are gonna come for a point so Sarr acts as another midfielder when we are attacking in that game.
    Fair point, but the way Pearce got the winner against Wycombe, you could say he acts as another forward when we're in their box.
    Sorry to be a party pooper BUT 20 goals in 418 appearances over 12 seasons (5 different League clubs) for Jason Pearce makes me believe your being a tad optimistic !
    Ill be curious to know in how many of those appearances that Pearce going for the ball and putting his marker in trouble helps to the ball to his team mates feet to scramble over the line.

    CB's are pretty much battering rams at corners...go for it regardless, if you score then great just make sure you get something on it to keep it in the box.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,985
    Feeling a bit pessimistic about this, I think this will be a tough game and Oxford will be fired up.

    As an aside it feels a bit wrong to keep alternating Sarr and Pearce alongside Bauer. It's not as if Sarr needs to rest, CBs generally don't use the energy that the rest of the outfield players use. If anyone needs to be managed carefully it's Taylor who's played an awful lot of minutes and tends to give 110% every game with his running. 
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,788
    eaststandmike said:
    Dazzler21 said:
    21 Jan 2014Oxford United v Charlton AthleticW0-3FA Cup
    24 Sep 2016Oxford United v Charlton AthleticD1-1League One
    21 Feb 2017Charlton Athletic v Oxford UnitedL0-1League One
    17 Oct 2017Oxford United v Charlton AthleticD1-1League One
    09 Jan 2018Charlton Athletic v Oxford UnitedL1-1Football League Trophy
    03 Feb 2018Charlton Athletic v Oxford UnitedL2-3League One
    23 Oct 2018Charlton Athletic v Oxford UnitedD1-1League One
    Grim record against them.
    Grim managers in the middle five of those matches: Patience Slade and Motormouth Robinson.

    In Lord Bowyer's match last October we had Steer in goal and a back four of Dijksteel, Pratley, Pearce, and Solly; Taylor scored a first half penalty and Oxford equalised with 20 minutes to go.

    We'll have a stronger team tomorrow and a bigger incentive to get the job done: only a win will maintain our hopes of an automatic promotion place.

    I expect us to get the job done - a 2-0 win, Igor and Lyle again - and put a shed-load of pressure on Barnsley, Pompey, and Sunderland before their matches later in the day ... and at least one of those three will crack ...
  • SE7toSG3
    SE7toSG3 Posts: 3,140
    We will win this, I reckon 2-0 and the autos stay alive for another week, cant wait ,Up the Addicks!  

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