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POST-MATCH THREAD: Cheltenham Town vs Charlton Athletic: Tuesday 5th March 2024 KO 19:45

LoOkOuT
LoOkOuT Posts: 10,856
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It took ten or twelve minutes to settle the game down before Charlton went on to dominate the first half, going ahead on 19 minutes through a lovely bit of team play that put Daniel Kanu in position to slide the ball past the keeper from six yards. Unfortunately, despite shot after shot peppering the Cheltenham goal, the Addicks failed to extend their lead.

In the second half, Charlton absorbed a lot of pressure as Cheltenham fought their way back into contention. The Addicks were flat in comparison to earlier in the match as Cheltenham wrestled momentum back to their side. The Cheltenham equaliser came on 70 minutes as they waltzed through the Charlton back line and stabbed homem from close range.

Substitutions were made on 79 minutes, which proved pivotal, with Tyreeq Backinson coming on for the out-of-sorts Karoy Anderson. Backinson put the Addicks back in front on 86 minutes, finding himself on the end of a George Dobson cross, which he controlled and fired home from within the box. Only four minutes later the seemingly inevitable happened, with Alfie May scoring a tap in through Thierry Small’s selfless pass. The ball was gifted to Small through a slip up by the Cheltenham right back, which let Small through on goal with only the keeper to beat. Small put May in, which was a just reward for his industriousness. The third goal ensure the three points, with the Addicks moving up to 14th in the table.

3 more points!

Cheltenham 1 Charlton 3

Over to you.
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Comments

  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    That third goal ............... I thought only we could contrive to let in goals like that! :-)
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836

    A win is a win. 3 points and very little else matters. But we made bloody hard work of that!

    A shockingly bad first 15 minutes but then the first sign of quality and a tremendous passage of play created the opening goal. Then we carved them open multiple times without being able to find the second. 

    It was the reverse in the second half when we looked tired and anxious, created little, conceded but then scored two late goals.

    Thierry Small very good again. Karoy Anderson looked tired and we improved after Bakinson replaced him. I felt that Nathan Jones should have replaced him earlier.

    Just hoping for another win at The Valley on Saturday to keep the momentum going.

  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,602
    Tiny Tel is God!
  • mart77
    mart77 Posts: 5,658
    edited March 2024

  • AdTheAddicK
    AdTheAddicK Posts: 3,379
    Fantastic result. Played the most in the league. Most importantly points on the board. ONWARDS AND UPWARDS 
  • Stewart
    Stewart Posts: 2,451
    Now 14th. But every team has at least 1 game in hand over us. 
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  • The Prince-e-Paul
    The Prince-e-Paul Posts: 6,688
    A crucial result and the league position is looking so much better than a few weeks ago. Almost every team below have, one, two or three games in hand, but they can't all win them. 
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,677
    That went well.
  • BigDiddy
    BigDiddy Posts: 1,188
    Great result - should have sewn it up by half time. Still think we look a bit iffy at the back ! Coventry and Watson were very good and so much better than a few weeks back. Well done to all


  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,670
    Breathe easy fellow Addicks. 
    🫣🫣
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,446
    Results based business. 

    We won and looks like we'll be back in this division next year. 

    The way we struggled for large parts of the second half worries me when planning for next season. 
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    BigDiddy said:
    Great result - should have sewn it up by half time. Still think we look a bit iffy at the back ! Coventry and Watson were very good and so much better than a few weeks back. Well done to all



    Watson and Ramsey are two good RB options for us to have.
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,510
    Up to 14th...playoffs here we come...🙄
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    Fantastic result.
    The only surprise is that we didn’t score those goals first half.
    Small has made an incredible start to his Charlton career. Fantastic.
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  • redlanered
    redlanered Posts: 2,195
    Shaky and scrappy, but it's 3 points and confidence and resilience are improving.  Anderson was tired and struggling, needed to come off at half time.  Small excellent again.  Need REG to be fit, quality player now he has settled in
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,601
    Wasn’t as comprehensive as the score suggests, but let’s take it anyway.  An all the “Happy with a point” people…. ! This is 90% of next seasons squad, if we don’t start winning with this team, even ugly wins, we go nowhere. 
  • Fortune 82nd Minute
    Fortune 82nd Minute Posts: 8,338
    Sorry but going to be critical of NJ.

    Young Corey had an absolute nightmare tonight.  His passing was just awful. He should have been taken off at least 20 minutes before he was. And as soon as Bakinson came on things improved.

    Huge shout outs to Small - his fitness and athletism was unreal tonight. Sign him up now please - Coventry and Tennai Watson - considering he is playing with an injury he was very good.

    Hopefully we are nearly safe now.
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,295
    Nice to see an opposing team make a defensive error of the type we've been making all season! 
  • AdTheAddicK
    AdTheAddicK Posts: 3,379
    Jones looks fkin freezing. What a legend tho 

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