MATCH PREVIEW: Charlton vs Wrexham - Saturday 28th February 2026, 3pm Kick Off

What is it with Lloyd jones and Wrexham, they’ve cursed him I tell thee , Charlton 1 Real Madrid 0 

gmantaxi said:

What is it with Lloyd jones and Wrexham, they’ve cursed him I tell thee , Charlton 1 Real Madrid 0 

Last year Jones with about 3 others were "crocked" by Wycombe in the previous (away) game where we won 0-4. Jones started the next game at Wrexham with a pain killing injection but was clearly not right and came off at half time.

• Charlton have lost just one of their seven home league games against Wrexham (W2 D4). Their 2-2 draw in League One last season is the only time they’ve hosted the Welsh side this century.
• Following their 1-0 win in November, Wrexham are looking to complete the league double over Charlton for the second time after 1979-80.
• Charlton haven’t scored more than once in any of their last 11 home league games, though they’ve only failed to score on one occasion in that run. They last netted multiple home goals against Sheffield Wednesday in October (2-1).
• Wrexham have won four of their five away league games so far in 2026 (D1), having been winless in their last eight on the road in 2025 (D5 L3).
• Josh Windass is Wrexham’s top scorer in away league games this season with five goals, though four of these came in his first five away game this term (1 in his last nine).

https://www.efl.com/news/2026/february/26/sky-bet-championship--pre-match-stat-pack/

Hand on heart the Wrexham story so far is epic, football wise. The media malarky around them spoils it for me personally, but hey that's life.

We will get overun by a better set of players, but as Grievesie used to say to the Saint, more than twice a day, "It's a funny old game Saint, football is a funny old game".

1-3 Sheep shagging Hollywood C-listers.

Addicksi said:

We tend to do better when we're not supposed to. 

I think it’s more a style thing. When we play footballing teams we do well. When we play shithouse teams like us then we don’t. Unfortunately Wrexham are a shithouse team so I don’t think we will do well, give us more chance against Birmingham next week where we can shithouse them like last season 

I think that after the terrible defeats to Millwall and Pompey we deserve a blood and guts performance resulting in a turgid 0-0 draw (with the minimum of late stage nailbiting) that only the mighty Addicks can deliver.

soapy_jones said:

Hand on heart the Wrexham story so far is epic, football wise. The media malarky around them spoils it for me personally, but hey that's life.

We will get overun by a better set of players, but as Grievesie used to say to the Saint, more than twice a day, "It's a funny old game Saint, football is a funny old game".

1-3 Sheep shagging Hollywood C-listers.

Epic how they've bought their way to success? Fairytale stuff. The media isn't around it it's an integral part of it, without it they wouldn't be able to put in the finances they do and the football part doesn't look so epic.

*Edit. I'm shouting at the sky I know.

My interpretation of Jones' comment re Chambers was that he was a slight risk to play because of a high number of games in a short period of time, rather than an ongoing issue or injury. I could be wrong, but I'd expect him to be ok for Saturday especially since he was pulled just before the hour mark.

Expecting Coventry to slot in as a like for like replacement for Coady. Very interested to see how he plays, I think he's been a bit unfortunate to be out of the team and he has looked lively in his last few cameos. 

What to do with Lloyd Jones? He has played through 'rolled' ankles before with mixed results. In an ideal world we'd rest him but we only have 12 games to amass points and without him we are a different team. That being said I think Keiffer Moore got the better of him last time, so there is an argument for rolling the dice with Sichenje to give Lloyd ten days of recovery for Birmingham. If there's any chance he can play I think he will and I'd expect to see him out there on Saturday but it is a risk. 

I hope that we see a change up top. Dykes is clearly the no1 option at the moment, and it seems that Kelman has dropped down the pecking order, so I imagine it'll be TC. It'll be interesting to see if we line up with the 'box' midfield that we saw at the start of the second half v West Brom and at times during Southampton, or if he plays higher up alongside Dykes. I have a feeling it'll be the former to try and take away space in the middle of the park. Offensively the benefit of this is that it allows TC to drift and pick up the ball in wider areas. The downside is that TC is less likely to be in good positions for Dykes' flick-ons and perhaps limits his ability to stretch Wrexham with runs in behind. 

Kaminski
Clarke Ramsay Jones Bell Chambers
Coventry Docherty
Carey Campbell
Dykes

I'd take a draw if you offered it to me now. Blind optimism leads me to think we're due a good performance despite Tuesday night's evidence.

CharltonManor1966 said:

king addick said:

Flat back 4 then! If Chambers can't play and we don't have a LWB, play to your strengths!!

No-one has mentioned the great Gillesphey as left back yet - wonder why?

If he has to play, put him on Moore in a central position 

The logic is we will get thrashed, they must have the league’s best budget, even higher than the teams with Prem parachute money. They were 36th highest spending team in the world last summer, higher net spend than Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, AC Milan and Borussia Dortmund and have better quality in every area on the pitch compared to our bottom three budget players. But… but.. Charlton seem to perform better against teams higher in the league and this is the Championship where anyone can be beaten on any day. Head says 0-2, heart says still 0-1, but you never know.