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MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic vs Birmingham: Carabao Cup: Tues 13th Aug 2024 KO 19:45 +POST P21

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  • What a load of shit
  • No point on getting over excited,but we were outplayed all over the park,defence looked ok but midfield creativity was non existant,and nothing at all up front,just do not see were the goals and opportunities are going to come from.
  • They looked a class above in the parts I managed to watch via dodgy link. 
  • Poor second half but Birmingham are nothing to be scared of in this league.
    I expect lots of teams will be saying that about us this season.....

    "Restrict them to shooting from 20 yards"

    " don't worry about their wingbacks crossing"

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  • edited August 13
    Alarmingly one dimensional. No-one who came into the side has really staked any sort of claim for a starting spot. Berry ok first half but vanished in the second. Small absolutely woeful. Zero threat up front and at times Birmingham passed through our midfield far too easily. I still don't really get Anderson. We need some pace and flair in central midfield and we can't play that style without a big man up front.

    Birmingham had a fair bit of possession, but did Mannion make any saves of note?
  • Decent, competitive game. Birmingham the better side but not by much. I think for the most part we defended well. They scored a worldie. We took a Michael Grayesque penalty. Really sums it up.

    The last two games have been a terrible advert for Sky streaming services. Picture quality terrible, intermittent buffering. I work from home and have one of the best speeds / connection packages available. I will never buy any streaming product from Sky based on this service. Dreadful.
  • Gotta be one of the worst displays of shooting I can remember, starting with the penalty.
    Awful game, pretty awful performance, but there was a good pass by Aneke near the end. And that’s about it.
    I think Nathan Jones will have learned a lot tonight. I imagine he’ll be desperate to unload some of these players.  
  • The Word Striker and penalty taker springs to mind.
    are we really one of the favourites to get promoted or have I got that wrong 😑 👎👎
  • Silly me I thought you were talking about missing chances. I now reread and realise you’re talking about “noteworthy” chances which is completely subjective. 

    The stat I’ve got in front of me says we’ve created 3 “big chances” and allowed 0 so far this season.


    "BIG" chances. Nice one.

    How many chances did we create when we had the ball and how many came from opposition mistakes? A chance is a chance and a goal is a goal, but my point is that the only chances we seem to get is when - largely from our good play - we force the opposition into a mistake. Which is fine when they've got the ball, but when we've got it what do we do?
  • Birmingham deserved to win. Not a huge amount in it but there we go. If you can’t score your penalties what do you expect? Nor exploit the man advantage. The telling factor might have been losing the toss and kicking the wrong way.
    Still, we play them at least twice more this season.
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  • Birmingham were clearly the better side at attacking although we largely limited what they could do with those attacks. We defended well for all but their goal (Berry should have closed down quicker). We had chances but the finishing wasn't anywhere near good enough. Also if TC had buried that pen, then Brum may not have dominated as much as they did. At the end of the day we lost to a team that has spent more than the rest of the league combined by 1 goal whilst not playing our full strength team. For me, Small, Reg, TC and Kanu were largely poor today unfortunately. Thought Coventry did well as did Jones. 
  • edited August 13
    Managers change, players change but our utter gashness in cup competitions continues unabated. 
    Tbf we just had a cup run that ended at Old Trafford. 
    Plus victories over QPR and Brighton. 
  • edited August 13
    supaclive said:
    WE HAD ONE SHOT ON TARGET 
    THE MISSED PENALTY 
    Simply we aren't good enough up front

    Could say the same about Birmingham who had seven shots on target.

    Being able to create so many chances on goal (when shouting home about the number of efforts on target), yet being unable to finish six of them... Is pretty wasteful
  • On the face of it, it was a penalty save that stopped it from going to a shootout... Like Leuth says, given the money they've spent, the gap wasnt that impressive.

    Mannion didnt really have anything to do again
    Well, he had one thing to do.
  • Wigan (0.78) 0-1 (0.46) Charlton 

    Charlton (1.30) 0-1 (0.70) Birmingham

    Football.
    So other than a penalty we’ve barely created anything across 2 games. 

    Really need to see more going forward on Saturday. I hope Berry starts, he’s the only one with a bit of invention/creativity about him. I’m worried about how we are going to break down any team that sits in against us and doesn’t hand us chances by giving the ball away at the back
  • Small was crap tonight for the most part, nothing came off for him 
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