A scrappy game at the Valley sees Charlton win 3-2 to deliver Nathan Jones his first win at home. We got off to a slow start. Twenty minutes in Carlisle found a route ahead through a set piece that was, eventually, scooped in. It was a soft goal to concede. It wasn’t until 37 minutes that Charlton found the equaliser through talisman Alfie May getting on the end of some hard work from Daniel Kanu.
An unchanged Charlton started the second half with more vigour. Shortly after the restart, May found Kanu with a beautiful sweeping pass forward into the box. After scuffing his first effort, the hard-working Kanu was able to finish on the second. Unfortunately, the lead was short lived when Carlisle’s Armstrong tucked away a penalty gifted through a bit of carelessness from Gillesphey, even though it was soft. Nonetheless, there was a final twist when former Addick Sam Lavelle made an error going back to his keeper that let May nip in and slot past the keeper for the winner.
It wasn’t a classic, but we did have seventeen shots, showing our willingness to have a pop, with seven of them on target. New signing Conor Wickham made his debut to good effect, providing a bit of size and muscle to see out the win. And Alfie May bagged two to keep up his goal-scoring momentum.
Charlton 3 Carlisle 2
Over to you.
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Ten wins in 38 games...three of those in the last five. He knows what he's doing.
Alfie May...the new Mendonca.
We are going places.
May probably out for the rest of the season after stacking it on the tunnel jump.
I also know that it in about 3 years time I'll wake up in the middle of the night wondering how their player didn't get booked for the most blatant pull back I have ever seen.
Conceded two at home to the worst team in the league.
All irrelevant.
We won.
That's it.
I'm not a big Brownie fan but he's spot on about this. Appleton, Holden, Garner (who I believe would have gotten a L1 job at some point but was managing in L2), Jacko, Adkins, Bowyer, Robbo, Slade, Fraye, Riga, Luzon.
A lot of coaches with their first job in management (Fraye, Luzon, Jacko, Bowyer, Holden, Riga) and a lot of managers on their way down the leagues (Slade, Apples, Adkins).
Robbo and Garner probably felt about right for the level. Peeters kind of in that mix for me as well.
It's been...a long time.
I think and hope not. That said we need to win a few more to keep up the momentum.
Were like a nerd that got asked to the prom by prom queen.
This is Charlton, remember?
Complaining about a home win when it was so long since the last one !
Nathan Jones decided he doesn't really want to change a winning team unless he had to because of injury. Check out the team over the last 3 games. You are giving young Anderson loads of stick again but the manager wants him to play his way through this because of his work rate.
Heavy favourites to win today and the difference in attitude is amazing and IF he feels Anderson needs a rest he will do it.
3 wins and 4 draws from last 7 games is an amazing turn around after heading only one way before the arrival of NJ.
But at FT, with most teams around or below us not winning I felt relief again.
Not 100% safe but do I think we'll go down.....not a cat in hells chance. Probably only need another 4 points but I think we'll get 52-54.
And I think we'll seal safety in one of our home games in early April. And I might actually be at one of them 😄.
How...how?
Honestly it's kind of what he was like as a player. Had a dodgy shoulder(s). I think we built like a soft landing area on the training ground so he didn't have to fall on the shoulder as much (I mean it's probably a good idea in general).
Onwards and upwards, get to a safe place and build for next season.