And we all breathe a collective sigh of relief!
How much better did we look today? More changes to the side, but this resulted in a tighter performance. Harry Arter anchored the midfield effectively. GIlbey provided the forward impetus and gave a performance that really wound up the opposition and the Fleetwood supporters. The only issue, which is a big one, is that we still look vulnerable and capable of switching off and gifting the opposition unlikely goals at crucial times.
Leko opened the scoring with a brilliant long range strike. Stockley came on to provide the winning goal from a beautiful strike that forced the ball straight down the keepers throat from short range.
Big Craig Mac pulled off two top draw saves, the first kept us in it and the second preserved all three points.
The Charlton fans that travelled up deserved that. They were brilliant from start to finish! Take a bow.
Fleetwood 1 Charlton 2
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Stay of execution for Smiler.
start that promotion party bus
stone cold sober watched it all on feed and loved it
up the Addicks
The opposition are still getting chances but was nice to see the players getting their bodies in front of efforts today.
Kirk looks miles better with an attacking full back behind him (who would have thought it?).
More quality on show today and we could have scored more.
I put both my free bets on Fleetwood to win (knowing that the opposite was most likely to then happen).
*"#@##ing hell.
especially ‘sing a song for Sebbo ’ which myself and 9 year old were singing loud and proud like lunatics at home
Thank fuck for that.
Well played lads. Great, strong performance.
All men on the pitch well worthy of the shirt and well managed Nigel.
Onward and upward.
Josh Davison worked himself into the ground and had a few good efforts himself, including a laser strike that came off the upright. He almost got on the end of a Leko shot across the line, but was wrong footed by the defender in front of him and couldn’t quite knock it in from point blank range. He continues to cause problems and provides more movement up front than Stocks.
2 week break now, but I have to say we need to get Dobson back (in place of Morgan) on the bench. He would have been a better option for Arter than Clare I think. However 3 points is really welcome, so now lets push on!!
So be without him for the first part of the season must have made a big dent in his plans.
Anyway. He's back now and with a bit of luck we can push on.
Arter looked a complete different player than his last outing.
Gibley is quality and having him back is so good for us at both ends of the pitch.
We saw what a Kirk Soare partnership might look like.
Leko and Lee are probably to good for this league.
Gunter looked an improvement on Matthew’s.
Having the quality of CBT and Clare to bring on shows we have good strength in depth.
Stockley scored.
Negatives
We ended up making a game against what are probably one of the worst teams in the league difficult for ourselves.
We still look dodgy in turn overs of play, and still never seem to get the second ball.
Still worry how we would perform against a team who pressed us better than fleetwood