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POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic v Stevenage: Saturday 8th February 2025 KO 12:30

LoOkOuT
LoOkOuT Posts: 10,890
edited February 8 in General Charlton
A tricky one for the Addicks at home, with Stevenage enjoying the best of results over the past five head-to-head encounters and the home side a little deflated after conceding two coming into this one having been up two and coasting.

Ashley Maynard-Brewer with probably the highlight of the first half when he charged out into a one-on-one and dived at the attackers feet to knock the ball away. Charlton scored right before halftime when Conor Coventry put through Godden in the six yard box to poke the ball past the keeper and open scoring.

Then, only minutes into the second half, Tyreece Campbell blasted a rocket off the crossbar that fell kindly to Luke Berry who nonchalantly stabbed the ball home on the volley and with his left foot, making an incredibly difficult shot look easy. From that point on, Charlton never looked back.

Three points and a clean sheet send Charlton into the promotion play-off spots, in sixth place!

Charlton 2 Stevenage 0

Over to you.
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  • TheHerminator
    TheHerminator Posts: 775
    Someone else said it but 2-0 flattered Stevenage 

    Coventry outstanding. Godden superb. Berry linked play well and was involved in most good things today. 

    Superb addicks 
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,770
    Scrappy 1st half.

    2nd half the most I've seen us dominate a side this season. Absolutely superb. 

    Oh and how I wish Godden was 5 years younger,  he's absolutely class.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,587
    A rare 7+ performance from every player. Do that on a more consistent basis, and reckon this squad is good enough to piss this league
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,696
    3 points just what the doctor ordered.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,214
    Literally just checked the quickest route to Wembley from here. 

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  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,019
    edited February 8
    We look totally transformed. Hard to beat with quality all over the pitch. The difference is so stark it’s almost like a different season. 
    Keep it going. Second isn’t out of the question imo. 
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,294
    Wish we'd killed them off after our second goal as we created enough but I'm not complaining. Total calm control. Limiting a team to 0 shots on target is a fantastic achievement and we played that out so professionally. Keep doing that for the rest of the season and things could be very interesting.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,410
    ValleyGary said:
    Once Coventry got the game by the neck we cruised it. Seriously one of the best individual performances I’ve seen at the valley in a long time. He was faultless.


    He put one straight through to their keeper near the end, which was notable, because it was the first and only time he did something other than perfectly. Someone still remarked on the 'woeful pass' in the match thread ffs 
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,267
    We are going up. Second half was the most dominant I've seen us in ages
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,691
    edited February 8
    We were shaky at times in the first half but the fortuitously timed Maynard-Brewer injury stoppage let Nathan Jones reorganise the side and we never looked back. 
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,441
    We had a decent first 15, then got really sloppy. AMB got some cramp, and suddenly we got better as a team again, culminating in a brilliantly worked goal.

    Second half we started red hot and that killed it off, Stevenage couldn't niggle and time-waste their way through the game and therefore they fell apart, and if it wasn't for some greedy play and a bit of misfortune, we could have won by 3 or 4
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,880
    Comprehensive victory. 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,277
    13-Clean Sheets in the League now... Five less than 2018/19, seven less than 2011/12
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 12,089
    Pretty much the perfect performance. Goals from 2 of the front 3 with TC very dangerous. Coventry immense in the middle of the park and Docherty very busy. Defence largely unchallenged, one good bit of goalkeeping AMB and no shots on target conceded. NJ really good tactically, made the necessary tweaks after the AMB "injury" and Stevenage had no reply
  • LTKapal
    LTKapal Posts: 1,313
    Is it worth questioning whether berrys improved performance now down to pressure to perform re competition for his spot?

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  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,918
    Impressive game management at the end as well.
  • hermann
    hermann Posts: 489
    Wtf did Nathan say when AMB went down injured around 30 mins? We were quite poor until then but absolutely excellent for the rest of the game. Fair play NJ
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,587
    edited February 8
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  • Bostonaddick
    Bostonaddick Posts: 841
    sam3110 said:
    We had a decent first 15, then got really sloppy. AMB got some cramp, and suddenly we got better as a team again, culminating in a brilliantly worked goal.

    Second half we started red hot and that killed it off, Stevenage couldn't niggle and time-waste their way through the game and therefore they fell apart, and if it wasn't for some greedy play and a bit of misfortune, we could have won by 3 or 4
    It would be curious to see if Jones or one of the assistants made some sort of hand symbol right before his “cramp”
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,294
    hermann said:
    Wtf did Nathan say when AMB went down injured around 30 mins? We were quite poor until then but absolutely excellent for the rest of the game. Fair play NJ
    Apart from a bollocking I suspect he told us to switch it. We started playing through Small for the first time straight after instead of just being camped on the left hand side and suddenly Stevenage had to spread themselves thinner to cover the additional threat on the other side. It was no surprise TC suddenly started finding himself able to isolate his man when they realised they had to fear Small's pace as well
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,277
    I thought as a whole it was a very drab match, but fully expected that from Stevenage, as thought the clash with Blackpool last weekend (especially in the second half of that one) was a lot more "exciting"

    Stevenage though have worked out how to play that suits them, the fact they score and concede so little must be extremely taxing for their fans - But if it gets them results them fair play to them

    The timing of our two goals, probably couldn't have been worse for them though... The first right before HT, and was a bit of a shell shock moment, but Alex Revell was still able to get them quickly down the tunnel to re-group for the second half... Only when that restarted, we scored again within three minutes, which must have just completely killed off their believe, and they clearly went through the motions second half.

    Fair play to Nathan Jones for recognising that the early plan didnt work, and getting Maynard-Brewer to go down injured, its not something I like to see... But it was equally brave from Jones to either change things early or just remind his players what was expected from them, as the early knee jerk reaction could have resulted in even worse.

    Onwards and Upwards
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,402
    Wtf is going on here. Can’t quite believe what I’m seeing. 

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