WALSALL 2 (T Roberts 41, Agyei 89) CHARLTON 2 (Fosu 13, Holmes 88)
Attendance 3,712 (263 Charlton)Gillingham Gillespie; Devlin, Wilson, Guthrie, Leahy (Donnellan 87); Edwards, Chambers; Ismail (Kouhyar 74), Oztumer, Morris; T Roberts (Agyei 77)..Charlton Amos, Solly, Bauer, Konsa, Dasilva, Kashi, Forster-Caskey, Fosu, Clarke (Ahearne-Grant 72), Holmes, Magennis.
Summary
Charlton's run of frustration continues as twice they were pulled back when in front against the Saddlers. An early Fosu-Henry strike was topped in the second half by another worldy from the reliable Holmes, but once again it didn't prove enough as Holmes' 88th min strike was undone just 30 seconds later.
Post Match comments
Robinson:
““We’re in a little run where we haven’t won in four games and when you go through them – and everyone has them during a season – you have to stick to your beliefs and carry on doing what you believe in. We put ourselves in a great position at the beginning of the season and everything we seem to do at the moment is back-firing a little bit; I don’t think they had had a chance in the first half and then we switched off for a moment and they scored. It was as simple as that. They had nothing to challenge us in the first half and then they do create one opportunity and score. We had three or four chances and only scored one."
“The first half an hour is how I foresee this team playing: it was quick, bright, off the cuff and forward thinking. Second half, they got on top of us and we didn’t win many second balls in the middle area of the pitch. We were a bit slow in playing through the thirds. All of sudden we were a bit deeper, a bit more negative and then we become second-best in areas, and these are things that the players have to learn."
STATBANK Player Marks
Holmes = 7.55
Dasilva = 6.90
Amos = 6.85
Konsa = 6.85
Fosu-Henry = 6.85
Magennis = 6.50
Forster-Caskey = 6.35
Clarke = 6.25
Bauer = 6.20
Kashi = 6.15
Solly = 5.55
Team Average = 6.55
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