Was our formation actually 3-4-1-2 on Saturday, as it was hard to see from the terrace?
Was it 3/5 at the back with Fox as a left sided CB and Young/Motta the wing backs, or was it 4 at the back with Fox at LB, Motta at RB and Young in LM? The way Fox got forward for our first goal wasn't the run of a CB?
Also, I thought Harriott was an attacking midfielder like Gudmundsen, with Sanago up by himself?
Was our formation actually 3-4-1-2 on Saturday, as it was hard to see from the terrace?
Was it 3/5 at the back with Fox as a left sided CB and Young/Motta the wing backs, or was it 4 at the back with Fox at LB, Motta at RB and Young in LM? The way Fox got forward for our first goal wasn't the run of a CB?
Also, I thought Harriott was an attacking midfielder like Gudmundsen, with Sanago up by himself?
They lined up in the previous away game at Preston 5 at the back with Fox and Motta bombing on, if that helps.
Was our formation actually 3-4-1-2 on Saturday, as it was hard to see from the terrace?
Was it 3/5 at the back with Fox as a left sided CB and Young/Motta the wing backs, or was it 4 at the back with Fox at LB, Motta at RB and Young in LM? The way Fox got forward for our first goal wasn't the run of a CB?
Also, I thought Harriott was an attacking midfielder like Gudmundsen, with Sanago up by himself?
They lined up in the previous away game at Preston 5 at the back with Fox and Motta bombing on, if that helps.
That game had Tex, Lennon and Relegation Roger as the 3 CBs, while Reading had Tex, RJ and Fanni as the 3 CBs
As RJ was thankfully dropped, either Diarra or Fox played at CB, or we played with 4 at the back
Charlton Athletic v Milton Keynes Dons Tuesday 08 March 2016 … 7:45pm Kick-Off Referee: Charles Breakspear (Surrey)
Introduction
One win down, another eleven to go… After a surprise 2-1 win against Brentford on Saturday that would be the ideal scenario for us at the moment, seeing Charlton going on an amazing run winning every match from now until the end of the season and so finishing comfortably in mid-table… Of course if that were to happen it would leave many questions including: Why did it take so long for that form to show.
In an ideal world though we know that scenario won’t happen, either way though the next eleven matches (finishing at home to Burnley) don’t matter just like the previous 35-matches that have been played (with the majority ending in defeat) equally don’t matter, with many fans believing that relegation is now in the bag it’s time to stop looking at the League table and start looking at the next match and the next match alone… Our season hangs by the slimmest of threads; a win this Tuesday night against Milton Keynes Dons could be huge but regardless, a win this Tuesday and we simply look forward to the next one against Middlesbrough.
In regards to what happens on the pitch, nothing else matters
The Opposition Name: Milton Keynes Dons | Manager: Karl Robinson Ground: Stadium.MK | Nickname: The Dons
For this preview I thought I’d concentrate on an opposition player for this section… Especially as for Dean Lewington it’s been a bit of a roller-coaster career, in an era when very few players spend their entire career at one club, Lewington has this season surpassed 500-appearances, impressive as it hasn’t been completely plain sailing.
Raised in Kingston (South London), Lewington is from the heart of the Wimbledon jungle and just two years after they were relegated from the Premier League. Lewington would make his first team debut… Two years later though and we all know what happened next, Wimbledon were relegated further into League One and were scratched from the records, forever to be now known as their current guise: Milton Keynes Dons.
It would get worse before it got better and the MK Dons would be relegated once again, this time down to League Two… Their spell in the Fourth tier would be short lived though and the Dons would bounce back to League One at the second time of asking then after countless attempts in the Play-Offs, MK Dons were finally promoted back to the Championship… After an eleven year break, Dean Lewington having seen it all would be playing in the second tier.
As already mentioned… 500-appearances for a “single club” must be applauded… Yet let’s try to ensure that relegation is once again added to his CV.
Charlton Team News Rumours are already afoot amongst some on CharltonLife as to which side I’ll be entering in my Preview this week… Naturally I’m a big believer that when a team wins, that same side deserves to start the following match, of course the best Managers will tinker a squad to counter whoever they're playing...
The biggest (and sole quandary) will be whether Stephen Henderson has recovered from his dead leg which ruled him out on Saturday, of course if he is fit you’d expect him to start yet if not then Nick Pope will surely step forward and take his place in the team once more… Alou Diarra failed to last until Half-Time on Saturday so will surely be replaced by Diego Poyet. Jose Riga has kept faith in his 3-4-1-2 formation of late so we could see Morgan Fox at Centre-Back in place of Roger Johnson once more.
Pope Fanni … Teixeira … Fox Motta … Poyet … Cousins … Young Gudmundsson Harriott … Sanogo
Substitutes Bench: Mitov … Sarr … Johnson … Ba … Lookman … Ghoochanniejad … Makienok
I've amended my original post to have the text as normal with the formation as centre aligned.
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I've amended my original post to have the text as normal with the formation as centre aligned.
Is that better for reading?
Always happy to make amendments to the Preview, suggestions are always appreciated too (Other than the constantly begging pm's getting me to stop, I'm ignoring them though... You know who you are!!)
I've amended my original post to have the text as normal with the formation as centre aligned.
Is that better for reading?
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It beautifully combines elements of Picasso's early cubist work with some of the tone and colour that Gaugain and Monet were using around the turn of the 19th century. A really lovely piece of work, well done.
I've amended my original post to have the text as normal with the formation as centre aligned.
Is that better for reading?
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Much better
Ignore that troll, everyone else does
Apologies... my comment in brackets was in jest...
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Much better
Ignore that troll, everyone else does
Apologies... my comment in brackets was in jest...
Doesn't matter if you try and be friendly with him, he'll still troll away : - )
2-0 to us to whip some fans into a frenzy of more fanciful predictions for the rest of the season. Nice to win at home, but ultimately nothing will change and we will still go down.
I've amended my original post to have the text as normal with the formation as centre aligned.
Is that better for reading?
Always happy to make amendments to the Preview, suggestions are always appreciated too (Other than the constantly begging pm's getting me to stop, I'm ignoring them though... You know who you are!!)
Much better
Ignore that troll, everyone else does
Apologies... my comment in brackets was in jest...
Doesn't matter if you try and be friendly with him, he'll still troll away : - )
Well I am trying to ignore you Henry but it appears you won't take no for an answer... I've told you countless times now IF I give you a specially signed Match Preview for the museum, EVERYONE is going to want one!!!
Felt like they played against Brentford with no pressure, almost like we're already down. Now that we've won a game and head into what is the biggest game of the season I'm not sure how they'll react with the pressure, knowing Charlton it will work against us, really hope I'm wrong, if we're to win we have to come out flying and get an early goal or two.
Felt like they played against Brentford with no pressure, almost like we're already down. Now that we've won a game and head into what is the biggest game of the season I'm not sure how they'll react with the pressure, knowing Charlton it will work against us, really hope I'm wrong, if we're to win we have to come out flying and get an early goal or two.
I've amended my original post to have the text as normal with the formation as centre aligned.
Is that better for reading?
Always happy to make amendments to the Preview, suggestions are always appreciated too (Other than the constantly begging pm's getting me to stop, I'm ignoring them though... You know who you are!!)
It beautifully combines elements of Picasso's early cubist work with some of the tone and colour that Gaugain and Monet were using around the turn of the 19th century. A really lovely piece of work, well done.
Charlton 0 - 3 MK Dons.
How tall is this Monet fella and is he from Belgium ?
Using the official FA definition of a walloping (We score at least four goals and win by a margin of at least three: 4-1, 5-2, 5-0, 6-0, etc), and putting aside FA Cup games against inferior opposition, we haven't given anyone a walloping since we beat Barnsley 6-0 in April 2013.
Was our formation actually 3-4-1-2 on Saturday, as it was hard to see from the terrace?
Was it 3/5 at the back with Fox as a left sided CB and Young/Motta the wing backs, or was it 4 at the back with Fox at LB, Motta at RB and Young in LM? The way Fox got forward for our first goal wasn't the run of a CB?
Also, I thought Harriott was an attacking midfielder like Gudmundsen, with Sanago up by himself?
Hear hear, on Saturday, pretty sure the formation was 4-4-2 Harriott and JBG were interchanging from right wing and second striker to Sanogo
Don't think Riga will change a winning team so just the one forced change- Poyet for Diarra.
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Was it 3/5 at the back with Fox as a left sided CB and Young/Motta the wing backs, or was it 4 at the back with Fox at LB, Motta at RB and Young in LM? The way Fox got forward for our first goal wasn't the run of a CB?
Also, I thought Harriott was an attacking midfielder like Gudmundsen, with Sanago up by himself?
So formation would be centre and rest would be L aligned?
As RJ was thankfully dropped, either Diarra or Fox played at CB, or we played with 4 at the back
Charlton Athletic v Milton Keynes Dons
Tuesday 08 March 2016 … 7:45pm Kick-Off
Referee: Charles Breakspear (Surrey)
Introduction
One win down, another eleven to go… After a surprise 2-1 win against Brentford on Saturday that would be the ideal scenario for us at the moment, seeing Charlton going on an amazing run winning every match from now until the end of the season and so finishing comfortably in mid-table… Of course if that were to happen it would leave many questions including: Why did it take so long for that form to show.
In an ideal world though we know that scenario won’t happen, either way though the next eleven matches (finishing at home to Burnley) don’t matter just like the previous 35-matches that have been played (with the majority ending in defeat) equally don’t matter, with many fans believing that relegation is now in the bag it’s time to stop looking at the League table and start looking at the next match and the next match alone… Our season hangs by the slimmest of threads; a win this Tuesday night against Milton Keynes Dons could be huge but regardless, a win this Tuesday and we simply look forward to the next one against Middlesbrough.
In regards to what happens on the pitch, nothing else matters
The Opposition
Name: Milton Keynes Dons | Manager: Karl Robinson
Ground: Stadium.MK | Nickname: The Dons
For this preview I thought I’d concentrate on an opposition player for this section… Especially as for Dean Lewington it’s been a bit of a roller-coaster career, in an era when very few players spend their entire career at one club, Lewington has this season surpassed 500-appearances, impressive as it hasn’t been completely plain sailing.
Raised in Kingston (South London), Lewington is from the heart of the Wimbledon jungle and just two years after they were relegated from the Premier League. Lewington would make his first team debut… Two years later though and we all know what happened next, Wimbledon were relegated further into League One and were scratched from the records, forever to be now known as their current guise: Milton Keynes Dons.
It would get worse before it got better and the MK Dons would be relegated once again, this time down to League Two… Their spell in the Fourth tier would be short lived though and the Dons would bounce back to League One at the second time of asking then after countless attempts in the Play-Offs, MK Dons were finally promoted back to the Championship… After an eleven year break, Dean Lewington having seen it all would be playing in the second tier.
As already mentioned… 500-appearances for a “single club” must be applauded… Yet let’s try to ensure that relegation is once again added to his CV.
Charlton Team News
Rumours are already afoot amongst some on CharltonLife as to which side I’ll be entering in my Preview this week… Naturally I’m a big believer that when a team wins, that same side deserves to start the following match, of course the best Managers will tinker a squad to counter whoever they're playing...
The biggest (and sole quandary) will be whether Stephen Henderson has recovered from his dead leg which ruled him out on Saturday, of course if he is fit you’d expect him to start yet if not then Nick Pope will surely step forward and take his place in the team once more… Alou Diarra failed to last until Half-Time on Saturday so will surely be replaced by Diego Poyet. Jose Riga has kept faith in his 3-4-1-2 formation of late so we could see Morgan Fox at Centre-Back in place of Roger Johnson once more.
Pope
Fanni … Teixeira … Fox
Motta … Poyet … Cousins … Young
Gudmundsson
Harriott … Sanogo
Substitutes Bench: Mitov … Sarr … Johnson … Ba … Lookman … Ghoochanniejad … Makienok
Prediction
Charlton Athletic 2-1 Milton Keynes Dons
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Charlton 0 - 3 MK Dons.
Charlton 1-2 MK Dons
I'm with you on this one Smudge comfortable home win 4-0.
Either 3-0 to us or 1-2 the visitors.
Motta Tex Fanni Fox at the back.
Good preview though.
1-1 draw and with that our fate is confirmed.
If we win we have a 5% chance of staying up, lose or draw and that really is that.
6-0 Charlton
0-1 MKD
Harriott and JBG were interchanging from right wing and second striker to Sanogo
Don't think Riga will change a winning team so just the one forced change- Poyet for Diarra.
Damp squib. 1-1