U21's drew 1-1 with Bristol City today
Charlton Athletic FC
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U21 team to face
@bcfctweets: Phillips; Barnum-Bobb, Nego, Gomez, Lennon; Munns, Petrucci, Gerard; Daniel, Holmes-Dennis, Parzyszek. #cafc
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Subs: Dillon, Asamoah, Banjuka, Osborne.
Bristol missed a penalty and scored the rebound
Munns equalised but Pete has an assist . Interesting that Nego and Petrucci played
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Was thinking the same.
OK Nego might spend the whole game on the bench and needs game time but could it be Cousins at right back?
No sign of Koc again
But if Cousins is playing RB then Wilson plays in front of him in RM and there is less need for right sided cover as Wilson can drop back.
We'll see how it goes.
The official report is up :
http://www.cafc.co.uk/news/article/20140407-u21s-report-1474349.aspx
Alex Stedman reports from Sparrows Lane
Charlton’s U21 side drew 1-1 with Bristol City on Monday afternoon at Sparrows Lane.
Up against a side who’d they had lost to just four days earlier, a second half Jack Munns strike cancelled out Liam Kelly’s first half effort.
Euell named a strong side for the contest, as his players attempted to avenge last week’s 4-0 defeat.
Dillon Phillips started in goal for the hosts, and ahead of him, Loic Nego and Jazzi Barnum-Bobb flanked the central defensive partnership of Harry Lennon and Joe Gomez in the first period.
The midfield five saw Jack Munns, Davide Petrucci and Tareiq Holmes-Dennis tasked with keeping the physical Robins midfield quiet, whilst Kadell Daniel and Harry Gerard operated on either wing.
Up front, the lone striker role was given to Piotr Parzyszek for the afternoon.
The game was only three minutes old when Charlton forayed forward for the first time.
Daniel did well to beat Lewis Hall on the edge of the area, before having what looked like a solid penalty claim turned down as he went over in the box – referee John Pike waved the winger to his feet.
That signalled the start of some sustained pressure from the visitors.
Nego failed to clear at the other end, and Liam Kelly fired a warning shot narrowly over the Charlton crossbar.
When Wes Burns picked up the ball on the right hand side five minutes after there looked to be little danger, but the winger jinked his way into the area, forcing three Charlton defenders off balance as legs tangled – this time Pike pointed to the spot.
Burns dusted himself down to take the spot-kick, only to see his effort brilliantly saved by Phillips down low – but Kelly was following in and caught the home defence napping to slide the ball back under Phillips to put his side ahead.
The Robins looked galvanised after a bright start, with the duo of Joe Bryan and Joe Morrell looking threatening on the counter attack as the Addicks couldn’t get going.
The bright spark of the first half for Charlton was Daniel out on the right wing.
He turned sublimely two minutes before half time, leaving his opponent on the floor, but his shot was well saved by Dave Richards and the resulting corner came to nothing.
There was still time for Joe Gomez to head narrowly wide from another Daniel set piece before the break as the hosts went in behind.
Euell made two changes at half time. Chris Dillon and Harry Osborne replaced Gomez and Holmes-Dennis as Charlton went in search of a route back into the match.
The changes and the half time team talk worked – the Addicks came out more positively in the second half.
Daniel weaved his way into space and found Gerard, before the midfielder’s attempted through ball rolled agonisingly too far ahead of Parzyszek
The sizeable presence of the Polish frontman suddenly started to cause Bristol City problems.
Parzyszek fired wide on the volley, before he set up the on-rushing Nego down the left soon after. Sadly, the full-back’s shot was straight at Richards, but as both Jason Euell and Phillips were vocally emphasising – the goal was coming.
Sure enough, the equaliser came a minute later.
A fantastic move, involving Gerard, Daniel and Munns resulted in the latter laying the ball into Parzyszek’s path, before the striker calmly laid it back to Munns, who curled a delightful finish round Richards to level the scores.
No sooner had Pike blown his whistle to resume play; Bristol City had a glorious chance of their own to retake the lead.
Joe Bryan skipped away down the left-hand side, evading the attentions of full back Barnum-Bobb, before rifling a shot on goal that Phillips did well to palm away – a let off for Charlton.
The highly influential Munns continued to dictate from midfield, and when he latched onto Nego’s inviting through ball, the ex-Spurs youngster found Parzyszek marauding through the centre, but the striker could only curl the ball wide as the chance went as quickly as it had arrived.
Munns rose highest to clear away Bryan’s dangerous delivery up the other end of the field in his own area, before racing up in attack to shoot wide after capitalising on some lacklustre defending from Jordan Wynter.
That proved to be the last act of an even contest as the referee brought the game to a close.
After falling behind early in the first half, and taking into account last week’s defeat, a lot of positives can be taken from the performance. Euell can be happy with the character that his side showed to get themselves back into the game, and they now have two matches of their league campaign remaining.
Charlton: Phillips, Barnum-Bobb, Nego, Petrucci, Gomez (Osborne 45), Lennon (Captain), Munns, Gerard, Parzyszek, Daniel, Holmes-Dennis (Dillon 45).
Subs not used: Asamoah, Banjuka.
Read more at http://www.cafc.co.uk/news/article/20140407-u21s-report-1474349.aspx#8gwgghv63o3j1i7o.99
Desperate times, desperate players.
However, Petrucci playing today is significant. I thought he looked a bit lightweight on Saturday, but I'd be both surprised and disappointed if Riga has decided to leave him out of tomorrow's squad, given that its such a critical game, but thats the implication. Who will come in to replace him? Green?
Thuram's absence means that there is now a squad place available for him in the 18 with Ardarevic ,Obika,Petrucci and Sordell being our only other loans
If we're 1-0 down with 15 minutes to go we could see if Koc could create something rather than Green, who we know probably won't. That's all.
We will see, he probably won't be on the bench but it was just interesting to see Petrucci start for the u21s and Koc not there at all.