After Bristol's win last week against Sheff Utd, normally it would cause their next opponents to look long and hard in how nullify their threat. In Charlton's case, Nathan Jones sets the side up with strength at the back underpinning everything else. I think we can get at least a point, simply because we dont normally make the crazy errors that Sheff Utd seemed determined to make and Bristol as a home side cannot play on the break, hopefully. One thing we must make sure of, is not to give Scott Twine a free kick centrally outside our box, deadly accurate and you might as well hand them a penalty as it has the same expected result.
After Bristol's win last week against Sheff Utd, normally it would cause their next opponents to look long and hard in how nullify their threat. In Charlton's case, Nathan Jones sets the side up with strength at the back underpinning everything else. I think we can get at least a point, simply because we dont normally make the crazy errors that Sheff Utd seemed determined to make and Bristol as a home side cannot play on the break, hopefully. One thing we must make sure of, is not to give Scott Twine a free kick centrally outside our box, deadly accurate and you might as well hand them a penalty as it has the same expected result.
We have errors in us and this level is much higher . I’m satisfied that we will give our all in every game this season and that the owners have backed us well - it’s all we can ask after most of the last 19 years.
It's our old friend Gerhard Struber at Bristol City now. He's going to make them a proper direct team and there's going to be a lot of similarities between us and them in how we play. In fact, the short vertical passing we showed against Watford is very similar to what City are looking to do, so there's a chance the two teams cancel each other out. It'll be an interesting one for sure.
Also please don't call them Bristol. There are two teams in Bristol and I hate this creeping Americanisation of football fandom where teams get their moniker dropped even if there's multiple teams in the city. Saw it with Sheffield United in the Premier League being referred to as just Sheffield and it's incredibly irritating
I'm sure a large part of their 4-1 win was the lust for revenge and that they came out of the traps faster the United. I don't see why we can't give them a good run for their money. We should fear nobody.
Won’t be watching as (somewhat ironically) I’ll be on a train home from the south west. Don’t think it will be a pretty contest. Neither team will want the ball but the hosts will have to take some initiative otherwise the home fans will get on their backs. Have a feeling we’ll score a late goal on the break to either seal a win or scrape a draw. As others have said, just don’t let Scott Twine have a FK in a half decent area. Ali Maxwell from NTT20 thinks Twine has scored more FK’s than anyone in Europe since 2020
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I think we will surprise people this weekend & certainly wont let in 4. Will always take a point away from home at this stage of the season.
1-1.
0-1 Charlton
Jones master-class- we go top and are the talk of the division.