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POST MATCH THREAD : Charlton Athletic V Portsmouth : Tuesday 17th February 2026 : KO 19:45

aliwibble
aliwibble Posts: 28,405
in General Charlton

I'm subbing in for @LoOkOuT again tonight for the rearranged Pompey home fixture. We named a largely unchanged team apart from Leaburn being back in for Godden, who apparently has a hamstring injury (hopefully not too bad), and the man, the myth, the legend that is Collins Sechenje being on the bench again.

First half was not happy viewing - a shot from distance went under Kaminski's legs to make it 1-0, the ref gave a penalty to Portsmouth for the ball being hit against Bell's arm, which was converted to make it 2-0. While we were absolutely not the better side, we really weren't helped by the ref, who was distinctly card happy, booking 5 of our players to Portsmouth's 1.

Half time saw 3 subs, with Campbell, Coventry and Fevrier coming on for Leaburn, Coady and Clarke, but we didn't look vastly improved immediately, and conceded a screamer of a 3rd in the 56th minute. We gradually got a bit more into it, and Fevrier got his first goal for the club in the 64th minute. We had a few more chances in the last half an hour but never really looked like getting back into it, and Pompey still caused us issues on the break.

Final score: Charlton 1 Portsmouth 3, over to you.

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  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 5,251

    The early bookings did for us and we didn’t have the nous to adjust. 

  • ProperCharlton
    ProperCharlton Posts: 2,300
    I thought missing out on a promotion at work would be the worst thing to happen to me this week, but watching that shite has just beaten it
  • Charlton and on
    Charlton and on Posts: 1,082
    I didn't enjoy that because it wasn't very good.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,395
    Ref did Nathan a favour by being a total c@@t, but we were outplayed on the pitch and outsung in the stands. Painful, but it is what it is. 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,510
    That was back to how we were playing in January, as bad as it’s been all season (possibly Millwall away excepted). 

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  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 7,442
    Nicholas said:
    Fucking love Nathan Jones football missing it already. Cant  wait for Saturday COYR

  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,563

    W A N K E R S !!!!!

  • Mortimerwasgod
    Mortimerwasgod Posts: 581
    At least the "let's look up the table" comments can stop now. 4th bottom is success this season. And I'm in the minority but I just don't rate Dykes, especially at home. Too slow and immobile. 
  • YannTheMann
    YannTheMann Posts: 1,365
    Less said about this evening then better, awful all round. Only way is up I suppose 
  • Rossman92
    Rossman92 Posts: 3,764
    I’ve been dealing with work bullshit for the last 2 hours so I’ve been preoccupied……

    WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?!?!
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,771
    Out fought and out thought by a relegation rival - not good. Need a reaction on Saturday.
  • Smithy
    Smithy Posts: 1,073
    Struggling to work out if the ref was corrupt or inept, but sadly having no trouble working out which one our team was. At home against one of the worst teams in the league who have 14 injuries and we put in an absolutely cowardly performance. Wake up call for the people inexplicably saying we were safe after Stoke.
  • Lurker
    Lurker Posts: 411
    One of many dreadful home games I've had to sit through this season.  

    We're good at defending our box but that's about it.  Our game plan is to defend our box and try and nick a goal.

    When something unforeseen happens, like the first goal tonight we don't have the skill or tactic fluidity to do anything about it.  
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,215
    Not good but this team can’t get derailed. 
    Assess it, learn from it, park it and move on.
    COYRs

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  • AberystwythAddick
    AberystwythAddick Posts: 1,333
    Just shite today. Not at the races, we can’t afford to lose games like that, it’s dragged us right back into it 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 98,434
    edited February 17
    Frustrating, but still a poor performance, especially as we started the game so strongly, if the ball had fallen to Dykes or Leaburn rather than Clarke we'd have had an early goal to protect and we're usually strong at doing that - Instead we, for some reason, started to retreat in on ourselves and never truly recovered from a bit of a worldie that the Goalkeeper should have saved.
    Pompey for all their injuries though, showed me on Saturday that they're not a shite side at the moment, and having watched them lose (perhaps unfairly) against Sheff Utd, tonight almost felt as though they took out their frustration on us from that match, they certainly carried over their performance from the weekend, and wouldn't be surprised if Mousinho was wanting to see a reaction from the chances that they wasted that game. 
    Shame as at Leicester; Dykes and Leaburn worked so well together, but tonight just couldn't get a grip on things... Guess it just re-iterates that these Footballers are still human, they're not robots so no reason for them not to have occasional setbacks - Onwards to Southampton... Long way to go yet.
  • Mortimerwasgod
    Mortimerwasgod Posts: 581
    I had more fun in a & e for 12 hours yesterday,  just to get antibiotics!
  • MeerKat
    MeerKat Posts: 127
    Charlton, a must not lose game and on Sky. It's always the hope that gets you.
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 7,442
    Mortimerwasgod said:
    At least the "let's look up the table" comments can stop now. 4th bottom is success this season. And I'm in the minority but I just don't rate Dykes, especially at home. Too slow and immobile. 
    100% agree on Dykes. Respect the effort but feels he could lose a 100m race to a donkey.

    Him and Leaburn together must be a defenders dream. 
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,826
    Typical. Chance to open a gap and we implode. If we narrowly get relegated tonight will be one we regret.
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 5,251
    I suppose Fevrier looked as though he could be dangerous in the right team. 

    Sadly one sub does not a team make. 
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,162
    Ref was a complete joke and the soft bookings probably did unsettle us but that was a horrible performance.

    Zero attempts to play football, just endless hoofing. 2nd to everything. Outfought and out thought by a bang average Pompey side that's been decimated by injuries. Performances like that show we're not safe by any stretch.  Need a big response or we'll quickly get sucked back into it. Barring Dykes, who never stopped despite being given nothing but long balls to try and win, im not sure anyone comes out with any credit tonight.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 45,075
    We didn't turn up tonight.

    Out thought, out fought.

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