Not a classic at all this afternoon, nor anything much worth remembering. It was a tough, scrappy affair but three points all the same. Tyreece Campbell returned to action and scored what proved to be the difference on 14 minutes. He’s very much in form and showing confidence in his scoring ability, particularly when cutting in on his right and shooting from the edge of the box. Just keep doing it! You get the sense he’d score one every game that way.
Cambridge huffed and puffed but ultimately didn’t ever mount much of an attack.
Lastly, a cameo for Micah Mbick, who came on in the final minutes and put himself about to good effect.
Cambridge 0 Charlton 1
Over to you.
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Godden / Ramsey MOM
play offs now nailed
Whats going on... Someone prod the Gunners awake!!!.
Wait... I heard something... a boom... the sound of one solitary gun firing off the starboard side, it seems no more salvoes are coming, because CAMBRIDGE YOU'VE BEEN SU-zzzzzzzzzz
Horrible bobbly pitch, swirling wind and bunch of cheating jobbers who tried to bully us.
Terrible, terrible, terrible game. But a great 3 points. Play offs looking all but certain. A win on Friday and then it’ll be about getting the balance right between going for 3rd/4th and managing the players so we go into the playoffs with our strongest team.
Not going to talk about all the players but just to note that Tom McIntyre redeemed himself after last week’s mistakes with a good solid game. Josh Edwards also very good throughout and Tennai Watson did very well when he came on, whereas Thierry was right off his game - unusual that he doesn’t give the opposing full/wing back a torrid afternoon.
Lord, the word scrappy was invented for that game!
Made hard work of it really and could easily have conceded an equaliser right at the end. But the win makes the play-offs all but certain now.
Shout out to the back 3. Ramsay was just class – he’s far too good for this league; McIntyre had a very solid game, much more like his Mansfield one than the Lincoln one; and Gillesphey was very sound.
One final thought. As Ahadme sits on the coach going home, he must think his time here at Charlton is coming to an end. Being overlooked to come on as sub for a young kid who has been out injured for months and only just returned to the team isn’t a good look.
The other games we then want to watch Friday are:
Bolton v Wycombe
Wrexham v Bristol Rovers
Peterborough v Stockport
Reading v Lincoln
That’s why they’ll be going down. And good riddance to any Neil Harris led side.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - Neil Harris is a top manager and a top bloke - will be surprised if he isn’t managing in the PL in the not too distant future.
Onto next week, hopefully Jones can keep the lads grounded and focused after the excitement of those 90 minutes.
No real exciting wing play from small or ramsey, TC tries but often ends up coming inside (fair play he scored via that method) or just running onto balls in the channels. Midfield are very lost at the moment too - nothing solid or defining, really think berry should be dropped and bring some fresh ideas to the side in Gilbert (T Taylor would have been a good fit too).
Defence seems solid enough, albeit some leggy and below average performances from small and ramsey recently - macintyre did well enough but Jones cant come back quick enough!!
Bench wasnt very inspiring either but got the job done. Aneke huffed and pufffed, Mbick did very well coming on - i'd prefer him to be the 'Aneke'esque lump' that gets brought on. watson good enough, as was anderson. hardly sparked any life into the game, but gave the midfield a bit more steel.
Have to celebrate the clean sheet win!
We've surpassed our clean sheets from 2018/19 taking our number to NINETEEN now
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Points are all that matters now but we've not been as fluid as in the previous months.
Horrible teams like Cambridge don't help but the ability to grind out this sort of win shouldn't be underrated, the lack of it has cost us for a few years.
TC MOTM for the one real moment of quality and for the kicking he took.
Poor game, Small had an off day, but I'm not putting it all on him for sure.
Mbick showed enough skill, confidence, power and maturity to suggest that he may replace Chucks next season.