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Charlton Ath V Middlesbrough|Championship|27 September 2014|Preview, Views, News and Line Ups

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  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,233

    Think this will be our first defeat. If we give them as much possession as we have been giving wolves, Brighton, Rochdale etc we will get punished.

    Hope I'm wrong and a draw would be a decent result.

    I missed that one !!!

  • Me too. Rotherham :D
  • I don't understand why we choose to give so much possession and play to the other team. As others have said this lot will hurt us if we do that.

    Just get more of the ball and let's dictate the flow of the game and create chances. Aside from 10 mins at the end of the first half at Rotherham we haven't done that for ages.

    If we don't change how we play - 3 0 defeat.

    If we do - 1 all draw.
  • I don't understand why we choose to give so much possession and play to the other team. As others have said this lot will hurt us if we do that.

    Just get more of the ball and let's dictate the flow of the game and create chances. Aside from 10 mins at the end of the first half at Rotherham we haven't done that for ages.

    If we don't change how we play - 3 0 defeat.

    If we do - 1 all draw.

    I don't think that it is that we choose to give so much possession. There is another team involved trying to stop us playing our football by closing us our centre halves down and denying us space and time.

    Yes, we need to counter than but I don't think it is a choice.
  • I don't understand why we choose to give so much possession and play to the other team. As others have said this lot will hurt us if we do that.

    Just get more of the ball and let's dictate the flow of the game and create chances. Aside from 10 mins at the end of the first half at Rotherham we haven't done that for ages.

    If we don't change how we play - 3 0 defeat.

    If we do - 1 all draw.

    I don't think that it is that we choose to give so much possession. There is another team involved trying to stop us playing our football by closing us our centre halves down and denying us space and time.

    Yes, we need to counter than but I don't think it is a choice.
    But it isn't like we are being done 55/45 on possession. Some of our games have been almost 70/30. Looking at Watford and Wolves in other games on the box and other teams didn't suffer as much as us.

    Unless we are just not as good as we think perhaps?
  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    edited September 2014
    Best I can see here is a draw for the addicks 1-1, hope to be proved wrong and we can 'nick' a win - Match Thread from 2 pm
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,268
    edited September 2014

    I don't understand why we choose to give so much possession and play to the other team. As others have said this lot will hurt us if we do that.

    Just get more of the ball and let's dictate the flow of the game and create chances. Aside from 10 mins at the end of the first half at Rotherham we haven't done that for ages.

    If we don't change how we play - 3 0 defeat.

    If we do - 1 all draw.

    I don't think that it is that we choose to give so much possession. There is another team involved trying to stop us playing our football by closing us our centre halves down and denying us space and time.

    Yes, we need to counter than but I don't think it is a choice.
    But it isn't like we are being done 55/45 on possession. Some of our games have been almost 70/30. Looking at Watford and Wolves in other games on the box and other teams didn't suffer as much as us.

    Unless we are just not as good as we think perhaps?

    Yes, maybe were not as good as some aspects of the game while being better at others. So the other team works on our weaknesses.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,663
    I'll take a continuation of the unbeaten record now.

    Draw specialists are better than loss specialists.
  • sralan
    sralan Posts: 2,031
    I'll keep it short and sweet........ 2-2
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,892
    I think we may see a few goals in this one 2-2 draw.

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  • Here's my bonkers prediction based on fans logic. In the past five seasons we have remained unbeaten at the start of the season over the first nine games. We then lost the tenth.

    We will therefore either draw or win on Saturday and lose at Norwich (as at Colchester and Stevenage beforehand).

    For what it is worth I predict a 2-1 victory for the Addicks.
  • masicat said:

    Cannot believe the negativity. My grandchildren are mascots for this game and we WILL win it. I suspect 1-0 ......but we will win.

    Masicat never wrong
  • HantsAddick
    HantsAddick Posts: 2,423
    edited September 2014
    We may not choose to give so much possession to other teams, but we do it all the same. Unless there is a much greater effort to keep attacking, I fear this will be our first loss of the season. Of course, I hope I'm wrong!
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,904
    i'll give it a go.

    football, tomorrow.

    well?
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,233
    sralan said:

    I'll keep it short and sweet........ 2-2

    philcafc said:

    I think we may see a few goals in this one 2-2 draw.

    Desmond 2-2

    Even if the rest of you CL think this is wrong,

    Please don't come on here and start bashing the ................

  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    2-0
    Ventokle and Church.
  • BansteadAddick
    BansteadAddick Posts: 1,119
    edited September 2014
    I think when the decision was made to make the Valley pitch bigger it wasn't with the intention of conceding so much possession and chasing shadows for so much of the game. But that is what I think will happen tomorrow 2-0 to Middlesbrough.
  • Introduction
    Middlesbrough is the worst place to live in Britain.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204127/Middlesbrough-really-worst-place-live.html

    Opposition
    Their players must all be mercenaries otherwise they would not move to the worst place in Britain.

    One to Watch
    Jelle Vossen. Was rumoured to be joining us in the summer but chose to leave Belgium to live in the worst place in Britain instead.

    The line up

    Henderson
    Solly, Bikey, Morrison, Wiggins
    Gudmundsson, Cousins, Buyons, Bulot
    Harriot
    Vetekele,

    Prediction
    Charlton should be beating teams like Middlesbrough. 3-0
  • Having 40% of possession is caused by careless distribution and cheap mistakes. The defence are playing the ball out and perhaps they need more movement and options in front of then so we can maintain control?
    Henderson is looking better every game and I look forward to seeing more of Bulot. So far Peeters has stuck to 4-4-2 but perhaps a 4-5-1 or 4-2-3-1 will play to our strengths.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    We have had a bad run against Boro in recent times, and they look to have a strong squad, and against Liverpool they made 7 changes. Even if they flag a little late on, well we don't exactly display tons of zip late in matches either. I would be very happy to keep a clean sheet in this game simply to prove to ourselves it can be done.
    I think that our right hand side is problematic because of the two games coming up and the shuffling around in that area what with Solly, Gomez, Bulot, Wilson, Johan all looking to be slotted in some how in one or both the games. How Bob plans to handle that is a challenge for him, and any injuries and gaps that crop up elsewhere will risk diluting any plans.
    Boro will have around 2000 roaring them on so they won't lack a motivational aspect to their game, and in players like Bamford and Vossen we will have to be very much on out toes.
    Tough and difficult to predict this one, but aiming for a clean sheet might just be enough to provide a platform for better stuff.

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  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    In front of an unusually large, expectant Valley crowd, Boro race to a 3-0 lead in the first half hour. We huff and puff, pull a goal back, then with a few minutes to go, a great strike from debutant Simonsen pulls it back to 2-3. Can we complete the great comeback? Sadly no.

    Oh hang on.... [strange Tardis-like sound in the background]
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,930
    According to the sub-standard we have a new nickname (ffs). So it's 1 -0 to the 'Latics' against the smoggies.
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,606
    Charlton go 1 - 0 up

    BP moves to the lets defend and get a draw 8-1-1 line up !
    On this occasion it fails we lose 1-2.
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,506
    AshBurton said:

    In front of an unusually large, expectant Valley crowd, Boro race to a 3-0 lead in the first half hour. We huff and puff, pull a goal back, then with a few minutes to go, a great strike from debutant Simonsen pulls it back to 2-3. Can we complete the great comeback? Sadly no.

    Oh hang on.... [strange Tardis-like sound in the background]

    ....and Malcolm Allison will be sitting on the away bench (and he'll be allowed to smoke his cigars...)
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,238
    -----Henderson
    Solly - TBH - Beast - Fox
    ---Cousins - Buyens
    Wilson - Johann - Moussa
    --------Veto


    Please
  • Ben18
    Ben18 Posts: 1,638
    2-0 Jacko and Veto
  • Gonna miss the first half hour of this one due to work so hope it's boring as anything for half hour with Charlton ending up on the right side of a 5-4 thriller