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POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic v Northampton Town: Good Friday 18th April 2025 KO 15:00
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The largest crowd at the Valley in 2025 for Northampton was treated to a great start when Luke Berry opened the scoring on about nine minutes. The ball was whipped on by Matty Godden on the right and muscles area by the Northampton defender who was facing towards his own goal and could only do enough to direct the ball into Luke Berry’s path. Berry stopped in his tracks and caught the ball on the bounce to fire past the visiting keeper.
Unfortunately, the lead was short lived. Northampton made things sticky for the Addicks who found it hard to beat the visitors’ press, let alone string together any passing play. The equaliser came from the penalty spot on about fifteen minutes, after Tom McIntyre inexplicably turned volleyball ace in his own box. Having lost his defender at the far post he rose his hand up out of no where to blatantly scoop the ball away from the incoming defender. Will Mannion was well positioned to defend his goal but wasn’t given the chance and had to then try to save the resulting penalty. Diving the wrong way meant Northampton had equalised. The two sides went into the break even.
Changes were made to Nathan Jones’ side early in the second half, with Chuks Aneke coming on to provide a little more strength up top. McIntyre was taken off and things were shuffled around a bit. Play got better as Northampton’s press correspondingly weakened under tiring legs. But it was still a scrappy, ugly affair, though there were moments. Godden hit the crossbar with a header that then came off the keeper and was cleared. But Godden wasn’t done. The winner came after seventy minutes. Chuks Aneke glanced a header forward from a Mannion goal kick for Godden to chase and then prod past the on-rushing keeper to put the Addicks ahead. Charlton were able to see out the match and take all three, hard-fought points.
Up to fourth in the table and playoffs confirmed. With us still to play the two above us, is second place still on the table?
Charlton 2 Northampton 1
Over to you.
Unfortunately, the lead was short lived. Northampton made things sticky for the Addicks who found it hard to beat the visitors’ press, let alone string together any passing play. The equaliser came from the penalty spot on about fifteen minutes, after Tom McIntyre inexplicably turned volleyball ace in his own box. Having lost his defender at the far post he rose his hand up out of no where to blatantly scoop the ball away from the incoming defender. Will Mannion was well positioned to defend his goal but wasn’t given the chance and had to then try to save the resulting penalty. Diving the wrong way meant Northampton had equalised. The two sides went into the break even.
Changes were made to Nathan Jones’ side early in the second half, with Chuks Aneke coming on to provide a little more strength up top. McIntyre was taken off and things were shuffled around a bit. Play got better as Northampton’s press correspondingly weakened under tiring legs. But it was still a scrappy, ugly affair, though there were moments. Godden hit the crossbar with a header that then came off the keeper and was cleared. But Godden wasn’t done. The winner came after seventy minutes. Chuks Aneke glanced a header forward from a Mannion goal kick for Godden to chase and then prod past the on-rushing keeper to put the Addicks ahead. Charlton were able to see out the match and take all three, hard-fought points.
Up to fourth in the table and playoffs confirmed. With us still to play the two above us, is second place still on the table?
Charlton 2 Northampton 1
Over to you.
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Everyone’s gash.
except when they’re not gash and do something good. Then they’re good.But mostly everyone’s gash34 -
Yet again, another ref I don't want to see again this season.46
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Tough watch, but the good teams find ways to win.
If we beat Wycombe on Monday we'll get top 2.13 -
The ref was absolutely awful.43
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Wait what is this... The long range guns are firing off the coast of Hastings? - There is to be no Easter resurrection for Northampton... and I may have missed this one, but still...
Northampton you've been SUNK!!
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Don’t think the crowd was as big as Wrexham.4
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Chuks looked like he pulled his groin ,probably out for the season3
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Delighted with the win.
Fuck knows what planet the referee was on.
Berry MOM.9 -
Yeah was the biggest of 2025 not the seasonguinnessaddick said:Don’t think the crowd was as big as Wrexham.4 -
Well, a win is a win is a win. But for 90% of that game we were shocking. Hoofball and second best to a team that are about to get relegated. Riding our luck but take it and move on. There is something about the way this is all evolving that makes me think it could be our year.5
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Good game, I thought. Not crammed with quality but very competitive.
Hopefully we won’t be seeing MacIntyre at Wycombe.
Love Matty Godden. A thinking man’s footballer.27 -
Three points is three points. That is all that matters. End of.19
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A great 3 points ! Performance not great but who cares at this stage. Definitely the most biased ref I have seen, either biased or an idiot one or the other5
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Agree with this. At this point of the season it’s just about finding a way though.Sillybilly said:Well, a win is a win is a win. But for 90% of that game we were shocking. Hoofball and second best to a team that are about to get relegated. Riding our luck but take it and move on. There is something about the way this is all evolving that makes me think it could be our year.Pretty it wasn’t5 -
Northampton unlucky not to get a point. I thought their pressing was excellent and I'm surprised to see them so far down the table, albeit I know they are a bit resurgent as of late.
Massive win for us though, especially with Wrexham and the hatters dropping points. Two big games coming up - we win those and we can genuinely get 2nd.5 -
We got control when we matched their formation. Fair play to Nolan, he's got a side that looked doomed to do the simple things well and gain confidence from it, perhaps we should send Thierry Small up there for a week. Not a great performance but another win. The Wycombe game will be different, as will Wrexham, still a few twists yet.0
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Won ugly again. But we won.9
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Missed the entertainment as up to Suffolk and back today.
Sounds like the result/points eclipsies the performance, which let's face it, with NJ that's more the norm rather than the exception. Grind it out boys...
Well done the Addicks!2 -
Another hard fought win. Didn't play well & although play offs are now secured I'm not sure we will be going into them as an "in form" team. Yes, we might not have lost recently but we're not playing with any type of swagger & last 2 games have been holding on to a single goal lead going into injury time.
Yes, call me a negative Nancy (I'm really not - just a realist) but it would be nice to win by more than a single goal & look comfortable with 10 mins to go.
Looking at other teams recent results I think we'll lose on Monday & Wycombe are now in the box seats for 2nd. Wrexham are now starting to bottle it & can see us winning up there.
Cant see is getting 2nd, especially as our GD is much worse than the other 3 teams around us who can grab it. Only way that will change is if we beat Wycombe & Wrexham by 3 or 4 clear goals, which ain't going to happen.
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Many years ago I dreamt that one day we will have a play off final at Wembley against a team who are filming a documentary. We score the winner in the very last minute. Wrexham are filming a documentary, so this must be an omen.19
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Poor quality match, but edge of the seat.
How on earth does that ref earn a living from refereeing? I hear that our beloved government want want to prevent football fans from asking referees if they're blind! I think they need to watch the decisions made by this ref.
Brilliant atmosphere from all those there, came across very loud and clear.
The dream is still just about there.4 -
Yes but already done with the Sunderland doc in 19.masicat said:Many years ago I dreamt that one day we will have a play off final at Wembley against a team who are filming a documentary. We score the winner in the very last minute. Wrexham are filming a documentary, so this must be an omen.4 -
Ruined Sunderland’s doc, would love to ruin Wrexham’s toomasicat said:Many years ago I dreamt that one day we will have a play off final at Wembley against a team who are filming a documentary. We score the winner in the very last minute. Wrexham are filming a documentary, so this must be an omen.8 -
Was a tough watch but even when we’re not playing well I don’t have too much of a concern we will concede (Peterborough excepted). I also think our fitness will levels mean we will finish strong, plus the ability Jones has to change formation and personnel.
Godden did well after his miss to show composure to score and aside from some hopeful balls onto the box we looked fairly comfortable.
One win in nine will ultimately cost us the autos but we will go into the playoffs confident and believing we can beat any of those with us.I usually try to not comment on referees. But…I thought today’s was horrendous. One of those who knows rules and laws but has no understanding of the game. The bookings showed that. They were time wasting from the point they equalised. Twenty to forty seconds for each throw in and goal kick. I know their right back got a caution but to book Ramsay for time wasting was ridiculous given what had happened earlier. Made the easy decisions but not the brave ones and showed a complete lack of nous.15 -
Well done reaching playoffs, don’t think we will beat Wycombe, orient look like the form team,
not as confident as I was in 2019.Hope I’m proved wrong.COYR4 -
His legs may have gone, but I love Chuks Aneke.38
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Far from pretty but results are everything. Up The Addicks!
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Berry was head and shoulders above the rest today. Quality performance18
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Small seems to veer between moments of high energy brilliance to moments of great stupidity…never seen such inconsistency!7
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What a struggle that was. Worries me how we went from all happy and sweetness v Huddersfield to this ugly, put up with it style. Teams have worked out TC but we need to find ways to cope. He was trying to stretch out a knock before he went off and probably can't expect him to play on Monday.
Felt Anderson was unlucky not to get more minutes. He was calm and effective last week at Cambridge in a similar sea of dross but didn't get the chance to follow that up today.
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