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POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic v Lincoln City : Saturday 5th April 2025 : KO 15:00

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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,040
    RonnieMoore said:
    Covered End said:
    oohaahmortimer said:
    Henry Irving said:


    Illustrates how important L Jones, TC and Coventry are.

    The first two were out and the third had his worse game for a while.

    Coventry somehow got man of the match in the lounges 🤷‍♂️ I’m guessing the match sponsor were his parents .

    Coventry was poor and came 9th on the CL stats.
    Coventry was excellent again but MOM was Gilly by a long way 
    Only in your head, like most things.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,693
    Scoham said:
    https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/sport/lincoln-city-coach-charlton-athletic-are-a-monster-club-at-league-one-level/

    We’re a “monster club”.
    “The ball turns over more than 200 times in League One – it is a transitional division. We have changed shape and we are working on how we can calm the game a little bit more". 

    Funny I was thinking exactly the same on Charlton's behalf during the game. 

    There is often a period of head tennis in League One which used to frustrate me, but which I now accept as part and parcel of League One.  I now find myself willing Charlton players to get their nut on the ball.  We'll have to wait for the Championship for a more fancy style of football I s'pose.
  • charente addick
    charente addick Posts: 3,812
    I don't think we should over react to this disappointing result. For the last 25 games we've been comfortably the second best team in the league and, whilst he obviously got the initial line up wrong on Saturday, I trust NJ to get it right for the remaining games. If he chooses to protect one or two for the play offs then that's fine by me. Let's face it, no-one thought we would be in this position after the Crawley home game but I think we will be the team to fear going into the play offs.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,929
    One thing I didn't like was that when we defended from corners, we had virtually everyone in the gk box, leaving players unmarked on the edge of the box, including McGrandles.

    With the law of the ex, that was asking for the ball to fall to McGrandles and him to drive it in from 20 yards...
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,817
    killerandflash said:
    One thing I didn't like was that when we defended from corners, we had virtually everyone in the gk box, leaving players unmarked on the edge of the box, including McGrandles.

    With the law of the ex, that was asking for the ball to fall to McGrandles and him to drive it in from 20 yards...
    Even without The Law of Ex, you leave one up front, they need to leave two back so you increase your relative coverage in your own area. 
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,819
    Yeah and given that we have TC, Berry and Dixon none of whom are likely to be beating a 6 footer for a header in the box it makes sense to leave one of these more advanced 
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    AddicksAddict said:
    killerandflash said:
    One thing I didn't like was that when we defended from corners, we had virtually everyone in the gk box, leaving players unmarked on the edge of the box, including McGrandles.

    With the law of the ex, that was asking for the ball to fall to McGrandles and him to drive it in from 20 yards...
    Even without The Law of Ex, you leave one up front, they need to leave two back so you increase your relative coverage in your own area. 
    I wonder if they think its beneficial to have a really packed penalty box so that no one has space or time to shoot. 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,354
    Hal1x said:
    AddicksAddict said:
    killerandflash said:
    One thing I didn't like was that when we defended from corners, we had virtually everyone in the gk box, leaving players unmarked on the edge of the box, including McGrandles.

    With the law of the ex, that was asking for the ball to fall to McGrandles and him to drive it in from 20 yards...
    Even without The Law of Ex, you leave one up front, they need to leave two back so you increase your relative coverage in your own area. 
    I wonder if they think its beneficial to have a really packed penalty box so that no one has space or time to shoot. 
    This is the theory. That and you use your smaller players to block their big ones. They have two ways of stopping them, literally blocking their path or being knocked to the floor and winning a free kick. The flip side is what happened in the League Cup final where Dan Burn was effectively unmarked
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,742
    Alwaysneil said:
    Yeah and given that we have TC, Berry and Dixon none of whom are likely to be beating a 6 footer for a header in the box it makes sense to leave one of these more advanced 
    If you leave someone up near the halfway line then there's always a chance that if we clear the ball it may fall to our player so we can start a counter-attack or, maybe, into a position where our advanced player can press and attempt to hold up the oppo until the cavalry arrives.

    If you have everyone back in the box defending if you do manage to clear the ball then the chances are it's coming straight back because there isn't any pressure being applied.

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