Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.
Post-match Thread : Charlton Athletic v Northampton Town | Tues 9 March 2021
Comments
-
-
That's more like it. Third game that we've looked solid. Tightened it up at the back. And, we used the home dressing room. Very pleased.Typical Charlton, we made it nervy at the end but, to be honest, we never looked like losing. Northampton were very poor to be fair. I have no idea how they stonked Pompey 4-1 last Saturday.One point off the playoffs. What's not to like.6
-
Ignore all the other sides, focus only on each game in isolation and go from there.
Forget the last fixture it has no bearing on the next, forget the league table it only adds pressure to consider it.13 -
Panic stricken when I saw the back four but Watson protected them brilliantly, best game by a mile for us, kept it simple, alert and looked up for it, the game suited his game. Pleased for Albie getting his chance which he took well, obvious statement but the shift that Washington puts in came both to prominence and fruition. Not getting carried away at all but huge weight off the shoulders possibly sewing the seeds of the infamous run.8
-
Performance didn't matter tonight, just getting the win. Our season is a dying flame, but we kept it alight by winning - back this up with two more wins and we might just get it burning again.Things to like: solid, organized, switched on for 99% of the time. We look like a team again.Things not to like: final ball, decision making in the final third - a common theme this season but something that will hopefully come as confidence builds. It was subtle, but we did look like we were playing with a bit more freedom after we took the lead.I think we can start to at least tentatively look up again rather than over our shoulders.1
-
One of the most nonsensical decisions I can recall being given our way. But I mean...I'll take it, haha5
-
Glad for the 3 points & bastards keep us dreaming still.
However, let's not sugar coat it. It was a poor game. We had just 5 shots on target & 1 of those was a rebound for Washington's 2nd. We looked very slow & laborious and no way do we look like a team on the verge of a run.
Pluses.
Looked better when Millar went back onto the left wing - me & Curbs know what we are talking about.
Watson looked steady & held things together in midfield. JFC & Morgan both did ok. Washington took his goals well.
Minuses.
Corners & crosses abysmal. 8 corners to their 3. They scored with one of their 3 & all 8 of ours didn't look like troubling anyone.
Too slow getting anywhere & big gaps between the front 2 & the rest of the team.
2 -
A win is a win.
it was organised and efficient and we done the job. Fairly flat though, particularly conceding at the end, but will take the three points.
Thought the ref was generally generous with some 50 / 50s throughout the game. So much now at our level seems to be around winning free kicks. Probably noticing it more viewing via TV.Not sure on that pen at all, both players jumped at each other, with JFC launching himself from a distance with no interest in the ball. Fortunately he was under the Northampton player so hit the deck first. Had no confidence at all in Connor taking it but he put it away very composed.
Switching Millar back on to the left made a big difference, as did Chuks when he come on.
Thought Pratley and Pearce were very solid, and I can’t remember a single time I said ‘for f*** sake Maatsen’, so that’s a positive.
we move on. Another win on Sat and all of a sudden those who wrote the season off a couple of weeks ago might pull it out the bin and start smoothing it out again12 -
FFS.......the pea in the refs full time whistle hasn’t stopped rattling yet and you’re already having a pop......sod off.😤😤😤grumpyaddick said:Turgid rubbish. Zero quality. Dodgy penalty made the difference.
How many shots did we have on goal ?
Good to get three points but we won't beat anyone decent based on that.
Chuks and JFC are doing alright.
5 -
Not pretty,who cares,efficient all round,one down side,our crossing was I think the worst it has been all season,could not clear the first defender.We did it twice and both times nearly scored.Roll on saturday.0
-
Sponsored links:
-
Such a pity when we had games in hand we screwed up. Now it’s unlikely that even with a decent run it will pull us up short because too many of our rivals have games in hand over us. It’s not over but I’m certainly not hopeful.0
-
I thought the tactics were right tonight. You could see them go for the press but we played good long balls and importantly picked up the second ball.
Washington was superb. Put in a great shift and took his second very well and did not try and blast it - which would have failed.
Famewo back for Saturday and Innis getting fitter. Things are looking better.6 -
I did chuckle when one of the first things he said was it’s good to have Pratley backScoham said:1 -
I've made it clear that I think Bowyer's lucky to still be in the job......HOWEVER
Credit where it's due, I thought the team was dead for the season, but they've shown a fighting spirit I didn't think they had in the last couple of games.
I still don't think we'll make the playoffs, but at least the team is fighting & looking like they want to give it a real go. That in itself makes me & I'm sure every other Charlton fan, feel a lot happier going forward13 -
Not a great performance, but a workmanlike one against very average opponents. We never looked like losing, but it was the sort of game which could easily have petered out to 0-0, or the nightmare scenario of conceding to a set piece goal and losing 1-0. A crucial result, the teams immediately above us all dropping points, whereas the teams below us (Oxford, Blackpool, Crewe) all won.
Pleased for Washington, who gives a lot for the team. Millar was definitely better on the left, I'm puzzled why he's been shifted to the right so often recently. Stockley is great in the air, but we became very predictable just playing it long to him all the time.2 -
AFKABartram said:A win is a win.
it was organised and efficient and we done the job. Fairly flat though, particularly conceding at the end, but will take the three points.
Thought the ref was generally generous with some 50 / 50s throughout the game. So much now at our level seems to be around winning free kicks. Probably noticing it more viewing via TV.Not sure on that pen at all, both players jumped at each other, with JFC launching himself from a distance with no interest in the ball. Fortunately he was under the Northampton player so hit the deck first. Had no confidence at all in Connor taking it but he put it away very composed.
Switching Millar back on to the left made a big difference, as did Chuks when he come on.
Thought Pratley and Pearce were very solid, and I can’t remember a single time I said ‘for f*** sake Maatsen’, so that’s a positive.
we move on. Another win on Sat and all of a sudden those who wrote the season off a couple of weeks ago might pull it out the bin and start smoothing it out againThe Simpsons' guide to our season.
4 -
ForeverAddickted said:
I thought the Northampton player jumped for the ball - JFC on the other hand saw the opportunity and jumped into the Northampton player who was already in the airsouthamptonaddick said:I don't get people saying it was a dodgy penalty.
If that happened in the street it would be assault.
If it was on the street it would be one of those instances where you see those idiots claiming they've been knocked down by a car yet its the person that has thrown themselves in front of the car
Player wasnt looking at the ball when he challenged initially and it was a really crass attempt to block JFC but it was a shocking challenge in the end.7 -
Morgan made a difference. Chuks gives us so much more. Millar on the left. Far less mistakes. Standard of League 1 is poor. We should be pissing this division.2
-
Don’t think the score line really shows the true control we had of that game .. there was only one team it and deserved to win ..
Good performance, we had to stay calm and wait for the chance and we did ... it was a very good header and one that’s very hard to defend but it was in the end very comfortable 2–1 win7 -
I thought that was our best performance some time. Certainly, it's the most comfortable I've been watching a Charlton game for months. Keep up the good work.6
-
Sponsored links:
-
Still plenty of football to be played! This is not a very good league at all and we are still in with a chance!ShootersHillGuru said:Such a pity when we had games in hand we screwed up. Now it’s unlikely that even with a decent run it will pull us up short because too many of our rivals have games in hand over us. It’s not over but I’m certainly not hopeful.2 -
That's the October form coming back in bundles. Keep it simple and we will win a lot of games simply because we have better players than most of the teams we play against.
Should have been 9 out of 9 but you would take 7 all day long. Keep playing like this and we may still get in the play offs.
I thought Watson was very good, again. But we do need one of the other midfielders to be switched on when the full backs push up.
We looked so much better organised. What's changed? It's not Oshilaja, it's not Williams, Maddison or Purrington. Compare the way we set up in the last 3 games and the way we have for the last 4 months. It's like night and day.
Well can still do this, I honesty think we can finish 6th (we will have to hope Sunderland finish 4th or 5th). If we don't let's not throw the baby (the players) out with the bath water.
10 -
A win keeps us in with some sort of chance, but with only 12 games left we probably need around 25 points to have a good chance of making the play-offs. A tall order but not impossible.0
-
Need to average two points a game realistically for the rest of the season so eight wins from the last 12 games - seems unlikely.ShootersHillGuru said:Such a pity when we had games in hand we screwed up. Now it’s unlikely that even with a decent run it will pull us up short because too many of our rivals have games in hand over us. It’s not over but I’m certainly not hopeful.1 -
Am I the only one who thought it was definitely a pen? Can’t tackle like that and expect to get away with it.11
-
As I’ve said before, we have no right to think we are going to be outstanding and just roll teams over. Especially with what we have been served up this season. So let’s all be grateful for an upturn in results and see how close to a successful season we get.I no longer have any expectations from now on this season so just hoping to have a valid reason for the use of some warm custard (instead of it being a dirty little secret!!!!)🤣. Anyway well done Lee and the team, on to the next one!.C’mon Charlton!!👍🤞.3
-
In our household we reckon at this moment in time we’ve got a 10% chance of making the playoffs.
Cant believe it’s taken until March to record our first home win at the Valley this year.
Hoping we can build on this , it’s just nice to get 3 points again.0 -
But we are much closer to the 2017/18 team that scraped into them and were soundly beaten in the semi.....Ormiston_Addick said:Hanging on the edge of the Play Offs....we are clearly nowhere near the team that went up via them in 2018/191 -
I thought it was very close to a red for the challenge on Pearce. Unlike Chucks when he got sent off and won the appeal, their player was not jumping straight up, but was jumping at an angle towards him and his elbow should not have been that high. Seemed to be pushed into him.0
-
Relief.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myS1eF3sWGk
