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Post-match Thread: Charlton Athletic vs AFC Wimbledon | Saturday 5th February 2022
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AFC Wimbeldon the visitors to The Valley today, on the occasion of the first match since brave Ben Jay’s passing. Ben’s life was marked before kick-off with a beautiful photo tribute and entirely fitting minute of applause. Emotions were high all around.
Unfortunately, our habit of loose defending across the back line let Wimbledon in. They took the lead from a set piece where Mac failed to hold a catch under pressure (too much?) and their forward stabbed the ball home. It took fifteen minutes before we grew into the game. Our chance also came from a set piece, where Albie Morgan continues to provide (mostly) quality deliveries. Morgan found Innis at the near post. Innis glanced a header past the keeper and into the back of the net. The big man immediately ran to the halfway line and paid tribute to young Ben by holding up the young man’s tribute shirt.
This was a game of set piece defending. It was open and, it’s becoming a habit, we let them behind out back line far too often. The second goal came with a beautiful, outside of the right boot long ball from DJ that put Washington bearing down on the keeper. He slotted home with aplomb to put us ahead and in the ascendancy.
But again, we let ourselves down with poor defending. Wimbledon equalised with another quality set piece. It was deflating to concede before halftime.
The second half saw a brief showing from Wimbledon before we grew back into ascendancy through decent spells of possession. The breakthrough came with another set piece, with Morgan dropping the ball onto Famewo’s head at the far post.
There were more half-opportunities for both sides and Wimbledon applied a worrying bit of pressure in the final ten minutes, but on balance we played the better football and deserved to take all three points.
Charlton 3 AFC Wimbledon 2
Over to you.
Unfortunately, our habit of loose defending across the back line let Wimbledon in. They took the lead from a set piece where Mac failed to hold a catch under pressure (too much?) and their forward stabbed the ball home. It took fifteen minutes before we grew into the game. Our chance also came from a set piece, where Albie Morgan continues to provide (mostly) quality deliveries. Morgan found Innis at the near post. Innis glanced a header past the keeper and into the back of the net. The big man immediately ran to the halfway line and paid tribute to young Ben by holding up the young man’s tribute shirt.
This was a game of set piece defending. It was open and, it’s becoming a habit, we let them behind out back line far too often. The second goal came with a beautiful, outside of the right boot long ball from DJ that put Washington bearing down on the keeper. He slotted home with aplomb to put us ahead and in the ascendancy.
But again, we let ourselves down with poor defending. Wimbledon equalised with another quality set piece. It was deflating to concede before halftime.
The second half saw a brief showing from Wimbledon before we grew back into ascendancy through decent spells of possession. The breakthrough came with another set piece, with Morgan dropping the ball onto Famewo’s head at the far post.
There were more half-opportunities for both sides and Wimbledon applied a worrying bit of pressure in the final ten minutes, but on balance we played the better football and deserved to take all three points.
Charlton 3 AFC Wimbledon 2
Over to you.
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Only followed the match thread and some WhatsApp’s from mates at the ground. A win is a win but sounded like a pretty dire game and lukewarm performance. But as I say, a win is a win…….1
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Form table looking much better.22 -
Enjoyed that. We've obviously still got a lot to work on, but it's a good result with some tough games coming up.
Thought Albie had a great game and a bit harsh to sub him off, but Fraser was good when he came on and you can see he's got excellent quality about him. Maybe it needed to be Morgan for the balance, I dunno.
Dobson was fantastic again, he's really done well to keep his good form up.16 -
Very entertaining game today, even if some of the defending was jaw droppingly bad at times.
PS Knowing us we'll go on to beat Bolton, Wigan and Oxford only to lose to MK dons.7 -
Nobody mentioned Scott Fraser on the Match Thread.
Already Charltonised?
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I’m worried when we play better teams, defensively we are allowing opponents to many opportunities in behind and from set pieces.
win is a win though and three on the bounce5 -
Sitting at home with Covid feeling a bit shit.
3 points has cheered me up no end34 -
We are going up!3
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We have got 4 of them in the next 5.stoneroses19 said:Form table looking much better.
Form the dog end of the match thread.
Win the next 4 and even I will believe the play offs are possible.
Regardless of the Hartlepools result these 2 league games were a lot bigger than a lot of people gave credit to. 6 points we are looking up, 1 or 2 would have been a completely different story.
I can't remember the last time we knew what divison we would be in next season when the clocks changed.
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11th as it stands with that Oxford equaliser.1
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The team is coming together2
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Thank goodness! A “Golfie”. Although, can we stop calling it that now?
Just because golfie complains about it not happening enough, it doesn’t mean we should name it after him.
If it did, we’d all be calling blowjobs a “lordy”.
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I see MK Dons are now 3rd.maddferrett said:Very entertaining game today, even if some of the defending was jaw droppingly bad at times.
PS Knowing us we'll go on to beat Bolton, Wigan and Oxford only to lose to MK dons.
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Enjoyed that, and weirdly I never really felt that worried that we weren’t going to win.I’m going to have to give lots of credit to Jackson and the coaching staff, as I felt we had been worked out by opposition teams and on the ball were looking very poor - even against Fleetwood when we won.
But something seems to have changed since the Hartlepool game and we are again looking like a decent team.
Also credit again to the boys, who I think often come under lots of unfair criticism on here.
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We needed that win. Unconvincing and need to tighten up our set piece defending.
Conceding twice in 90 mins at home under Jacko is uncharacteristic (see stat below) and against better opposition we would’ve paid for it. Thankfully Wimbledon are equally poor at set piece defending so it evened out this afternoon.
(Stat: prior to today, we had only conceded twice in eight league matches at the Valley. Once against Rotherham and once against Wycombe.)0 -
Great to win but let's be honest that was disjointed and unconvincing.
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It's another one where you wonder what would have happened if we'd sacked Adkins earlier. We weren't great Defensively but we were quite good going forward. And the difference is we just had a little bit more quality, including off the bench with DJ, and that saw us over the line. These are the kinds of games you win when you're going for the top six. We're not going to get there, but again, what if Jacko takes over earlier and we're not in quite as deep a hole?2
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Bolton equalise at Morecambe in the ...... 104th minute!
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Incredibly frustrating for me.
Nowt to do with the football just the comms kept dropping out.
Great win for Ben & his lovely family ♥️8 -
An entertaining win for the Famalam @RodneyCharltonTrotta. Bet Dad taught the kiddywinks a few new words too, watching our defending today.A win is a win but far from a perfect performance. A couple of quality set pieces from Morgan, plus a fantastic pass by DJ were the difference in the end.3 on the spin and momentum building again.5
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Ref took the players off due to racist abuse from the home fans.Oggy Red said:Bolton equalise at Morecambe in the ...... 104th minute!1 -
I think a swirling wind had some impact on the game, still its another win but we did look leggy.
If we beat Bolton then it's two points a game to reach 75 points.0 -
Some good stuff and some not so good stuff today. They could have scored more as could we. Dobson what great yet again and signs of confidence growing.
If I was MacGillivray's missus I'd be having kittens every time he picked up their new baby.35 -
Frustrating. Morgan and Gilbey not on it. Innis mistimed so many headers.But fun. Another great game by Dobson.9
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Oxford just gone 3-2 up0
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Famewo’s happy lol! He let off a partial f-bomb in his interview. Caught himself tho.17
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Okay, thanks. I wondered what had caused such massive delay.Gary Poole said:
Ref took the players off due to racist abuse from the home fans.Oggy Red said:Bolton equalise at Morecambe in the ...... 104th minute!
Little Morecambe are going to be in big trouble then?
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Akin nearly does a swear in his post match, does pretty well to catch himself, but you love to see it.0
