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POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic v Leicester City: Saturday 23rd August 2025: KO 12:30pm
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This afternoon’s televised clash featured a tale of Leicester possession-based football versus Charlton’s aggressive press, with the home side’s press winning out over the first 45. Charlton were immense out of possession, harassing, closing down, and forcing turnovers. The home side created almost all of the near chances, limiting Leicester to only shots off target.
Charlton’s best chance of the first half came on about 37 mins through a Conor Coventry strike from about 30 yards out. The whizzing effort was well struck and moving dangerously towards the top corner, forcing the Leicester keeper to make a diving save to his left and tip it over the bar.
The second started well for Charlton, winning a corner that resulted in a Jones header on target that was pushed out for a corner by one generic Leicester City defender or another, I don’t know. The second corner dropped onto Kayne Ramsay’s head, but his header was saved right on the line.
Leicester weren’t bothered though, because, only moments later a swift counter attack through Abdul Fatawu put the Foxes one goal to the good, against the run of play. Perhaps their only dangerous outlet this afternoon, he burst down the right and placed a twenty yard strike past Thomas Kaminsky, under pressure from Josh Edwards.
Charlton remained relentless and soon manufactured more chances, with the Valley faithful rising to the challenge and backing them in fine voice.
Changes were made on 74 mins, with Knibbs and Kelman coming on for Apter and Carey.
Coventry to Knibbs to Docherty forced a save resulting in a corner. The ball was driven into the box and Lloyd Jones rose like a leaping salmon to head it in, only for the referee to conjure a foul in the box and rule it out.
In an effort to capitalise on the momentum, Tanto Olaofe and Joe Ranking-Costello then came on for Miles Leaburn and Greg for the final four minutes of regular time, followed by Macauley Gillesphey on for Jost Edwards moments later.
In the 6 mins of additional time, Charlton again had the bulk of chances as Nathan Jones’ men threw everything forward.
Whilst the equaliser never came, Charlton can be more than satisfied with the performance. You don’t always get what you deserve on the day. And how Leicester didn’t concede, I’ll never know. Their keeper was their man of the match and their one moment of quality the difference between the two sides. Encouraging, but unfair.
Charlton 0 Leicester 1
Over to you.
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When are we getting Godden back?21
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The battleship appears to have ran into some technical difficulties
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Lack of killers in front of goal are going to hurt us this season22
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I thought Coventry and Doc were superb. Proper smash and grab from Leicester but a wake up call at this level if you don’t take your chances, the best player on the pitch will punish you. We lost but I’m still very positive.
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Seems like for all of the pressure and ball in the final third, the majority of our chances are created by set-pieces.
Really need to work on the final third and either getting more bodies into the box for crosses, or trying to work Apter/Campbell into more dangerous areas cutting inside.5 -
That’s what Kelman is supposed to be…AberystwythAddick said:Lack of killers in front of goal are going to hurt us this season3 -
Robbed. The better team beaten by one individual moment of brilliance. The way responded to the goal was unbelievable. By far the better team from that point on.
Only criticism is Jones could have made a sub or 2 earlier. Was clear we needed some fresh legs up front30 -
Are you staying over for the Millwall game mate?Callumcafc said:When are we getting Godden back?0 -
Not disheartened by that at all. If we’re performing like that at this stage, it’s likely to be frightening how good we’ll be four plus months from now!41
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Proud in defeat. Smash and grab for Leicester and we would’ve been fully deserving had we won that. Probably our best performance of the three so far this season, certainly the most chances created. Just lacked that moment of quality or fortunate bounce to fall to one of ours.
Typical for newly promoted sides to suffer the odd game like that - be the better side but not take your chances while the more established team takes their one chance.
A lesson to be learnt, but not a whole lot more we could’ve done. On the other side I thought the defensive side was just as good as it has been, and there were signs the attacking side is moving in the right direction. I think the goals will start to flow a bit soon.
Overall we can take heart from that because if we keep doing what we’ve done in the first three we should stay well clear of relegation trouble.
We go again.
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Yep - on the positive, we’ve played well in the last two matches against decent teams.AberystwythAddick said:Lack of killers in front of goal are going to hurt us this season
Concerningly we’ve played well in the last two matches and have one point & no goals to show for it.4 -
Undone by one bit of quality which i guess is the difference in stepping up a division.
Probably our best performance of the season and we lost. If we continue to play like that we'll be absolutely fine this season.14 -
Free hit really and arguably we hit it as hard as we could.It just wasn’t going to go in today sadly…4
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Doesn’t matter what he’s supposed to be none of our players took chances today and we lost, it’s a long season if we don’t take the chances this yearCallumcafc said:
That’s what Kelman is supposed to be…AberystwythAddick said:Lack of killers in front of goal are going to hurt us this season0 -
Life's not fair sometimes. We'll play way worse than that this season and win.
Lots of positives to take, even if the result will sting for a bit.16 -
Disallowed goal, their keeper pulled off a worldy save from Covs top bins shot in the first half. The one that wasn't quite over the line. Numerous blocks. Other chances we couldn't quite finish.9
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Undone by a sublime bit of quality and an inspired bit of keeping. Another day we would’ve won that 3-0. I can’t fault any players, because this is all we can afford. We can’t buy a Championship ready team in one go, only Hollywood teams like Birmingham can do that.
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We've got a squad of fighters at the very least, boys didn't give up today, with attack after attack.Feel unlucky not to have taken at least a point, if not three today. That's saying something considering they were bringing on players from bench that cost them £10m-15m each.12
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Have been concerned that if we go behind in games we’ll struggle to get back into it and so it transpired. Three games one goal isn’t going to be good enough. Only three clubs on one goal. Us and bottom two.5
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Could have had Fred West up front, their keeper just wasn’t being beaten today.AberystwythAddick said:Lack of killers in front of goal are going to hurt us this season15 - Sponsored links:
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We played well but nothing to show for it. Just no luck today.Nothing to be worried about however.Kaminski (for me) remains the least impressive of our new signings.0
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Overwhelming feeling coming out of that one is pride at the performance. We were comfortably the better side against an extremely expensive team.
Coventry was sublime but just couldn’t find the finish. Docherty much improved. Carey is so good in terms of how he’s just always available for the pass and it makes a big difference to our attacking play.I really think TC needs swapping out for Olaofe next game. His passing is a big problem and that chance really should have found the net at the end.19 -
We certainly need to focus on getting more bodies forward, and into the box when we're going forwards without the need for set pieces. There were a good few occasions in the first half, where Apter had no one but Leaburn to aim for.SELR_addicks said:Seems like for all of the pressure and ball in the final third, the majority of our chances are created by set-pieces.
Really need to work on the final third and either getting more bodies into the box for crosses, or trying to work Apter/Campbell into more dangerous areas cutting inside.
Its not going to make either player look good in those scenarios, because they're going to be trying to find a needle in a haystack.3 -
No unfortunately heading back tomorrow. Although expect I’ll be over more often going forward.ForeverAddickted said:
Are you staying over for the Millwall game mate?Callumcafc said:When are we getting Godden back?2 -
I genuinely cannot remember the last time I saw us play a team less deserving of the win. Unbelievable.25
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Disappointing and didn’t deserve to lose. But the lack of goals in the first 3 is a worry and not taking the chances we create cost us. Chasing a game in this league was always going to be a challenge.2
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Kelman to score the winner next weekend against QPR13
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Safe flight home... Sorry you weren't able to see us victoriousCallumcafc said:
No unfortunately heading back tomorrow. Although expect I’ll be over more often going forward.ForeverAddickted said:
Are you staying over for the Millwall game mate?Callumcafc said:When are we getting Godden back?4 -
Imagine I'll get backlash but TC needs to be dropped. No end product and lightweight. Tanto come on and showed more.45
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Thought that was a gripping watch. I'm convincing myself that we may have used our luck in the play-offs and at home to Watford. Also, it's worth remembering that grabbing a late equaliser would have just earned a point, rather than three.
To beat us at home, you need to score a goal of this quality.
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