Godden in the first half was just as good as Leaburn in the air, if not better. Look at how high he was jumping and how well he timed headers. Second half he was tired and you could see he wasn't timing them as well, but he's way better in the air than people are giving him credit for
I honestly can't recall Godden winning a header tbh, but I'm not sure it matters. He led the line better than he has before. He's looked desperate to get back into the team after being left out, which was the right decision at the time, but it's good to see him more fired up and affecting games. On the other hand, for a senior pro, you'd expect him to be doing that all the time.
In some quarters there seems to be a belief that when we go long, the striker is supposed to head it to one of our players. But that rarely happens at any team, and I'd argue it's not the aim. The striker just has to get something on it or stop the CB from making full contact so we can contest the second ball higher up the pitch.
Leaburn is the same height as Peter Crouch and I've no doubt he'll become a more dominant force in the air. But no young player comes into the team and starts smashing experienced CBs. The youth game is played entirely on the floor, it takes years to pick it up.
He won 50% of his aerial duels yesterday. Leaburn’s season percentage for that is 50.5% so they’re similar. I would say that Godden’s look to be more controlled.
Godden in the first half was just as good as Leaburn in the air, if not better. Look at how high he was jumping and how well he timed headers. Second half he was tired and you could see he wasn't timing them as well, but he's way better in the air than people are giving him credit for
I honestly can't recall Godden winning a header tbh, but I'm not sure it matters. He led the line better than he has before. He's looked desperate to get back into the team after being left out, which was the right decision at the time, but it's good to see him more fired up and affecting games. On the other hand, for a senior pro, you'd expect him to be doing that all the time.
In some quarters there seems to be a belief that when we go long, the striker is supposed to head it to one of our players. But that rarely happens at any team, and I'd argue it's not the aim. The striker just has to get something on it or stop the CB from making full contact so we can contest the second ball higher up the pitch.
Leaburn is the same height as Peter Crouch and I've no doubt he'll become a more dominant force in the air. But no young player comes into the team and starts smashing experienced CBs. The youth game is played entirely on the floor, it takes years to pick it up.
He won 50% of his aerial duels yesterday. Leaburn’s season percentage for that is 50.5% so they’re similar. I would say that Godden’s look to be more controlled.
Fair enough. Godden is 42.9% over the season according to FotMob.
Interestingly, WhoScored puts Myles as 1st in the league for aerial duels won (strikers).
Godden in the first half was just as good as Leaburn in the air, if not better. Look at how high he was jumping and how well he timed headers. Second half he was tired and you could see he wasn't timing them as well, but he's way better in the air than people are giving him credit for
I honestly can't recall Godden winning a header tbh, but I'm not sure it matters. He led the line better than he has before. He's looked desperate to get back into the team after being left out, which was the right decision at the time, but it's good to see him more fired up and affecting games. On the other hand, for a senior pro, you'd expect him to be doing that all the time.
In some quarters there seems to be a belief that when we go long, the striker is supposed to head it to one of our players. But that rarely happens at any team, and I'd argue it's not the aim. The striker just has to get something on it or stop the CB from making full contact so we can contest the second ball higher up the pitch.
Leaburn is the same height as Peter Crouch and I've no doubt he'll become a more dominant force in the air. But no young player comes into the team and starts smashing experienced CBs. The youth game is played entirely on the floor, it takes years to pick it up.
He won 50% of his aerial duels yesterday. Leaburn’s season percentage for that is 50.5% so they’re similar. I would say that Godden’s look to be more controlled.
Fair enough. Godden is 42.9% over the season according to FotMob.
Interestingly, WhoScored puts Myles as 1st in the league for aerial duels won (strikers).
In part that will be down to how direct we’ve played a lot of the time
FotMob has Miles in the 96th percentile for total aerial duels won (111) and 89th percentile for aerial duels won percentage (50.5%).
Godden 64th percentile for aerial duels won (36) and 73rd percentile for aerial duels won percentage (42.9%). Impressive for a shorter striker who you’d think would have little to no aerial presence.
To keep this thread on topic, Alfie May is in the 1st percentile for aerial duels won (1) and 1st percentile for aerial duels won percentage (4.8%).
Quite apart from his quality on the pitch I feel that Godden seems to be a fairly likeable guy in general. He does his job, he gets on with it and doesn't get stroppy too much if he has to wait for his chance - but when he does get the opportunity he'll work hard to keep his place.
I thought Godden was excellent in the first half last night. Best I’ve seen from him, although I have always said that “i like him”.
However he faded second half. Nobody was surprised, it now seems to be accepted that at his age he cannot do full 90s, at least not with impact.
Despite being only a year or so younger, Alfie May was a constant menace from the first to 98th minute. That’s the most important of several reasons why Godden was never a good replacement for May.
I'm surprised we're not making more use of Kanu. I thought in the big games when we were desperate for points last season he ran defences ragged.
Quite apart from his quality on the pitch I feel that Godden seems to be a fairly likeable guy in general. He does his job, he gets on with it and doesn't get stroppy too much if he has to wait for his chance - but when he does get the opportunity he'll work hard to keep his place.
Got a contract to see out the end of his career and living back locally, hopefully he's made enough dough and been sensible with it and can cruise along and enjoy his time with us.
Quite apart from his quality on the pitch I feel that Godden seems to be a fairly likeable guy in general. He does his job, he gets on with it and doesn't get stroppy too much if he has to wait for his chance - but when he does get the opportunity he'll work hard to keep his place.
Yep I like that a lot about him too. He’s definitely one of the most natural finishers in the division so it would be easy to have got frustrated by not playing as often lately.
But he got his start, played well and scored and now there’s an argument for starting him again on Saturday.
Quite apart from his quality on the pitch I feel that Godden seems to be a fairly likeable guy in general. He does his job, he gets on with it and doesn't get stroppy too much if he has to wait for his chance - but when he does get the opportunity he'll work hard to keep his place.
Got a contract to see out the end of his career and living back locally, hopefully he's made enough dough and been sensible with it and can cruise along and enjoy his time with us.
Shudder. That expression reminds me of the likes of Gunter, Ben Watson and Hector.
Quite apart from his quality on the pitch I feel that Godden seems to be a fairly likeable guy in general. He does his job, he gets on with it and doesn't get stroppy too much if he has to wait for his chance - but when he does get the opportunity he'll work hard to keep his place.
Got a contract to see out the end of his career and living back locally, hopefully he's made enough dough and been sensible with it and can cruise along and enjoy his time with us.
Shudder. That expression reminds me of the likes of Gunter, Ben Watson and Hector.
Don't all shout at once, but please can someone summarise why Alfie May left? How could he not be in Jones' plans after all the goals he scored last season?
Don't all shout at once, but please can someone summarise why Alfie May left? How could he not be in Jones' plans after all the goals he scored last season?
Depending on who you ask you will get different answers. The "official" answer seems to be that Jones either felt that May doesn't do enough off the ball and "only" scores goals and/or that having him in the team meant that the tactic to score goals would only ever be "Get the ball to Alfie May."
If this is true, and if he was right is still being debated and probably will carry on being talked about until the heat death of the Universe.
Don't all shout at once, but please can someone summarise why Alfie May left? How could he not be in Jones' plans after all the goals he scored last season?
My take on it, based entirely on heresay, rumour and my own speculation, is as follows:
1. Jones is appointed manager in January 2024 2. Despite his undoubted scoring prowess May didn’t fit the way that Jones wanted us to play.
3. By around March 2024 - May found his minutes on the pitch limited and he was playing out of position on occasion.
4. Summer 2024 - Huddersfield put in a bid which we accepted and May, with better chances of game time, maybe some more money and being closer to family up north was keen and as he wasn’t an automatic starter for us we accepted the bid.
5. Day May travels to Huddersfield for his medical - Birmingham made a bid which was more lucrative for us and May. 6. Forever after - I moan on Internet forums about Charlton selling Alfie May.
Godden has had a better career than May and I would say there is not that much between them. We can argue one way or the other using different facts. With May you could argue that he was League One top scorer in a shit team. But you could also argue he was part of a shit team.
Shame he wasn't up to speed at the start of the season, as we ended up starting many games with TC and Ahadme. I think if he was starting from the very first game he'd have notched a couple more times at least
Shame he wasn't up to speed at the start of the season, as we ended up starting many games with TC and Ahadme. I think if he was starting from the very first game he'd have notched a couple more times at least
Who says he wasn't up to speed ? Might have just been NJ's thinking of who he wanted to start upfront.
Neither Godden or Berry have looked fit enough to play a full match without looking like they needed subbing off. Godden and to a lesser extent Berry are looking the fittest they have been.
I don't understand why some people come across as so keen for others not to discuss Alfie May. Charlton Life has a smorgasbord of threads. If you don't like this one, you can graze on the next one. Had the club made an appropriate replacement for Alfie, this thread would have died a natural death. That never happened and so the thread lives on. It is living testimony to our collective disappointment at the club's lack of firepower.
Matt Godden might well score more goals than Alfie May does this season. He’s only one behind with fewer minutes played as it is.
Happy to discuss Alfie May when he’s scoring and when he’s not. Some only want to talk when he’s scoring, in order to use it as a stick to beat the club with.
It doesn't really matter to me if he's scoring or not, I think most people judge the evidence with their own eyes, and while Godden appears to be a clever finisher and good player, at this age he's not got as much to his game as Alfie did. That's why Birmingham wanted Alfie and not Godden.
I honestly don’t understand this statement. What has Alfie got to his game that Godden hasn’t?
Godden has consistently scored goals at Championship level something Alfie hasn’t done. Godden is a physically a handful for centre backs (something Alfie isn’t) and takes a penalty (as does Alfie).
Alfie is probably quicker? Arguably that is the only thing he has on Godden but Godden is hardly a slouch.
Alfie had a tendency to drift into wide positions though whereas I would argue Godden is an out and out striker! Something NJ clearly preferred.
Alfie has a tendency to score goals at this level. That other one doesn't.
Shame he wasn't up to speed at the start of the season, as we ended up starting many games with TC and Ahadme. I think if he was starting from the very first game he'd have notched a couple more times at least
Who says he wasn't up to speed ? Might have just been NJ's thinking of who he wanted to start upfront.
Shame he wasn't up to speed at the start of the season, as we ended up starting many games with TC and Ahadme. I think if he was starting from the very first game he'd have notched a couple more times at least
Who says he wasn't up to speed ? Might have just been NJ's thinking of who he wanted to start upfront.
Shame he wasn't up to speed at the start of the season, as we ended up starting many games with TC and Ahadme. I think if he was starting from the very first game he'd have notched a couple more times at least
Who says he wasn't up to speed ? Might have just been NJ's thinking of who he wanted to start upfront.
he had an injury at the beginning of the season
Aha, very unusual for a Charlton player.
Yeah, our injuries normally last nearly a whole or multiple seasons
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Interestingly, WhoScored puts Myles as 1st in the league for aerial duels won (strikers).
Godden 64th percentile for aerial duels won (36) and 73rd percentile for aerial duels won percentage (42.9%). Impressive for a shorter striker who you’d think would have little to no aerial presence.
To keep this thread on topic, Alfie May is in the 1st percentile for aerial duels won (1) and 1st percentile for aerial duels won percentage (4.8%).
I thought in the big games when we were desperate for points last season he ran defences ragged.
Got a contract to see out the end of his career and living back locally, hopefully he's made enough dough and been sensible with it and can cruise along and enjoy his time with us.
Poor wording, sorry.
How could he not be in Jones' plans after all the goals he scored last season?
If this is true, and if he was right is still being debated and probably will carry on being talked about until the heat death of the Universe.
1. Jones is appointed manager in January 2024
2. Despite his undoubted scoring prowess May didn’t fit the way that Jones wanted us to play.
6. Forever after - I moan on Internet forums about Charlton selling Alfie May.
It looks even more to be the case as we have not spent a penny in this transfer window
We sell Leaburn in the summer and it’s rinse and repeat
Alfie May 24/25: 157 mins per goal
Alfie May 23/24: 151 mins per goal
Matt Godden 24/25: 149 mins per goal
Godden and to a lesser extent Berry are looking the fittest they have been.