HEAD-TO-HEAD
We've gone toe-to-toe on 71 previous occasions, with the Addicks winning 25, Rangers 23 and the remaining 23 encounters resulting in draws, so pretty even it looks on paper, our last outing against them saw us progress in the Carabao Cup in a penalty shootout at The Valley back in August 2022.
We will be sporting our red home kit this weekend, and quite right, so that will hopefully be a good omen...
Anyway, here we go...COYR, let's get this job done in style today
Team news...
Nathen Jones has named an unchanged starting lineup for this afternoon’s match from the side that lined up against Leicester City in the league last weekend.
Meanwhile Reece Burke is named in the Charlton squad for the first time since joining the Addicks in the summer, as he takes a place on the substitutes' bench.
It means Kayne Ramsay, Lloyd Jones and Amari’I Bell will once again make up a back three in front of goalkeeper Thomas Kaminski.
Rob Apter and Josh Edwards will operate as wing backs with Sonny Carey, Conor Coventry and skipper Greg Docherty in midfield.
Academy starlets Miles Leaburn and Tyreece Campbell will once again start up front.
The bench is made up of Ashley Maynard-Brewer, Macaulay Gillesphey, Burke, Ibrahim Fullah, Joe Rankin-Costello, Harvey Knibbs, Alan Mwamba, Tanto Olaofe, Charlie Kelman
Charlton: Kaminski; Ramsay, Jones, Bell; Apter, Coventry, Carey, Docherty (c), Edwards; Leaburn, Campbell
Subs: Maynard-Brewer, Gillesphey, Burke, Fullah, Rankin-Costello, Knibbs, Mwamba, Olaofe, Kelman
Comments
A win and we will start looking upward again -
The nerves are there - if we press like we did against Leicester, if we play anything like we did with some better decision making, we will win comfortably in my humble.
We need to ride the first 12 minutes and then they will run out of steam - one good break and a goal for us will take the wind out of the fans.
This is a good test for Jones here.
Come on you ADDICKS!!!
Kone looking forward to an afternoon in Lloyd Jones’ pocket
UTA!!!