Charlton Athletic v Fleetwood Town | Tuesday 3rd November 2020 | Post Match thread

aliwibble

After Purrington got us an early goal and Washington put us 2-0 just after the half hour, two quick goals in reply from Fleetwood meant a degree of twitchiness at half time, but a penalty won by Morgan and scored by Washington was enough to get us the three points, even if it did require a concerted rearguard action for much of the second half.

Your thoughts?

CAFCTrev

Hopefully a lesson learned to not be complacent. Clean sheet in the second half though!

MattF

My nerves are shot, watching that game under the lights at The Valley would've been incredible.

Dirty northern bastards 

Callumcafc

FREEEEEEDOM

se9addick

MattF said:

My nerves are shot, watching that game under the lights at The Valley would've been incredible.

Dirty northern bastards 

Yeah I really missed not being at the match tonight, would have been great. 

ForeverAddickted

Notice you've deleted the crime @aliwibble, you wont be able to erase it from our memories though

2/10 on the marks for you tonight I'm afraid!!

Fumbluff

Spoilt our fun there

ForeverAddickted

https://twitter.com/pedwards72/status/1323733138443554816

Davo55

Wow! It’s games like that which remind me why I love football. A tremendous match with some excellent football from both sides.

Charlton much improved in terms of passing, movement, transition play and attacking in the first half, followed by some very gritty defensive work in the second half together with some incisive counter attacks. Pretty much everyone in a red shirt played very well but it was especially good to see Albie Morgan make a mark on the game with good defensive work as well as some slick attacking movements and earning us the penalty for the winning goal. Far and away our best performance of the season so far. We said, and hoped, our quality would improve as we gained more fitness and understanding, and it was great to see that really starting to happen.

Fleetwood played very impressively too. They’ll be up there at the end of the season so to get the win over them is really tremendous. I’m sure they’ll be right up there at the end of the season.

Great game. Great three points. Loving it.

Moo

Washington dark horse for league 1 top scorer !

O-Randy-Hunt

Leuth

The scoreline is misleading. Today was a fight and we won the fight. Simple as that. Maatsen showed real toughness as well as immense skill. Amazing to have a player like this at this level. Shinnie and Aneke are also very much Too Good For This League. Pratley's renaissance shows no sign of ending

cafc_harry

Best team we’ve faced by some distance. That’s the kind of win that gets you promoted, bar the opening 25 it wasn’t pretty but we had a huge set back and came back from it. Great win. 

Atletico Addick

Fumbluff

Is it bad that I fear I’m mostly going to remember Bowyers reign for the last 10-minutes of headless chickenism and players shitting themselves as any game that we’re not losing edges to a close?

ValleyGary

Great result that against, from what I’ve seen, the best footballing side we’ve played. Could of folded after that mad 2 mins, but we sorted ourselves out and did what we needed to do. Chuks looked really lively when he came on. Onwards and upwards. Can’t see anyone stopping us at the moment.

blackpool72

We are going to smash this league this season I'm telling ya.

Solidgone

Hoof it football doesn’t suit us. We are so much better with the ball. 3 more points going towards getting out of this fucking orriible league. 

Oggy Red

aliwibble said:

After Purrington got us an early goal and Washington put us 2-0 just after the half hour, two quick goals in reply from Fleetwood meant a degree of twitchiness at half time, but a penalty won by Morgan and scored by Washington was enough to get us the three points, even if it did require a concerted rearguard action for much of the second half.

Your thoughts?

That's one hell of a single sentence, Ali.

Impressed. 

rina

that's about as good a 3rd tier game as you're going to see, both teams played some good stuff but take out the 2 minutes of madness and we were comfortable enough overall. all the lads did great

usetobunkin

Finlay and Evans need a slap, and where oh where did they get that linesman from? 

superclive98

Excellent win against a very impressive Fleetwood side. 
How long have we got to wait for Chuks to start ahead of Bogle. He offers so much more. 

Leuth

Fumbluff said:

Is it bad that I fear I’m mostly going to remember Bowyers reign for the last 10-minutes of headless chickenism and players shitting themselves as any game that we’re not losing edges to a close?

I do wish we adopted some sort of alternative approach. I don't just think this is Bowyer though. We've always seemed to have done it no matter who the manager is

Leeds_Addick

Great game. Maatsen is some player, Watson showed his experience, Bogle was unlucky not to score, Washington ran his socks off again and Chuks superb.

The ugliest of wins but these are what you need

Leuth

Oggy Red said:

aliwibble said:

After Purrington got us an early goal and Washington put us 2-0 just after the half hour, two quick goals in reply from Fleetwood meant a degree of twitchiness at half time, but a penalty won by Morgan and scored by Washington was enough to get us the three points, even if it did require a concerted rearguard action for much of the second half.

Your thoughts?

That's one hell of a single sentence, Ali.

Impressed. 

She's back to a 5/10, just like that

msomerton

Sorry that was a poor performance from the team, to give them 60% possession is a worry. May be we are too easily bullied.

Moo

cafc_harry said:

Best team we’ve faced by some distance. That’s the kind of win that gets you promoted, bar the opening 25 it wasn’t pretty but we had a huge set back and came back from it. Great win. 

Evans looked lethal. 

flyingkiwiDK

Make no mistake about it that was a very good win tonight. Fleetwood are no mugs and will be there or thereabouts this season. I also think that is conceding two goals tonight isn’t the worse thing in the World. Hopefully it will keep the players feet on the ground as a reminder not to get too complacent. There’s a long way to go yet but it’s looking promising. 

JoshAddick

We have everything. Technical ability, natural talent, fight, hard work. What a squad Bows, JJ, Gallen and Sandgaard have put together. Got a great feeling about this season.

FishCostaFortune

A game we looked like we were cruising at one point, ends up being a tough well earned victory. Fleetwood are a tough, physical, well drilled side - we won't get many victories better than that one I reckon.

Personally was a bit miffed with Bowyers tactics and late substitutions second half - felt like moving to the back 5, and not bringing on a Chuks, or Smyth earlier really invited pressure on.

But hey - I've not won 6 games in a row now have I.

COYR 

Leuth

Leuth said:

The scoreline is misleading. Today was a fight and we won the fight. Simple as that. Maatsen showed real toughness as well as immense skill. Amazing to have a player like this at this level. Shinnie and Aneke are also very much Too Good For This League. Pratley's renaissance shows no sign of ending

Although Gunter might be the one who's really just playing completely below his level. He could do League One in a bathrobe