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POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic v Leicester City: Saturday 23rd August 2025: KO 12:30pm
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Think Jonesy nailed it in his Sky interview, apart from the disallowed goal. We'll hopefully get more of those decisions go our way this season for a change, though3
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Our style of football is ok if we're getting results, and seeing as we're battling with a team better than the sum of its parts, I'm not complaining.
However, it's very boring football and often with the same tactic of lumping it into the air in the box, with Jones to head it at the far post. It's very predictable. We're never going to see Kelman be effective with this style of football. I can only see him shine away from home on the break when defending a lead.
Before others think I'm being negative, I'll be happy just to stay up for the next two seasons. If this football is what it takes then so be it.
Well fought by the team and on other days we'll get a result.4 -
We win that 3 - 0 on another day. I feel frustrated with the result but not the team because everyone played well. Leaburn was imperious and won everything in the air, Doch and Cov responded to criticism with two outstanding performances, Jones was excellent and would make a decent striker at a lower level... everyone was good.
(I will say, having defended Kelman recently, he annoyed me today. He came on with fresh legs and walked around the pitch).
And while we do have a lot of athleticism in the final third, we're lacking class and quality. We have a tendency to panic and snatch at things.
But I can't be displeased because if we keep playing like that, we'll do well.6 -
Every single one of them were quality today, and Leicester left The Valley with three points they know the didn't deserve, we really do need to sharpen up our goal scoring and finishing, we created enough chances to win two games today, but somehow lost to bloody crappy Leicester shitty.
Sooner we get Godden back the better...4 -
Been a bit disappointed with Doc so far this season but today he showed what he's all about! That last ditch challenge to stop the breakaway was amazing! The team as a whole we're great today. So unlucky but a performance to be proud of all round!6
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Agree Doc had his best game for us in quite a while. On and off the ball some moments of class. Fair play to him.9
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Frustrating. Proud of the performance. Lots of positives to take from the game apart from points. Their keeper was a clear mom, and we couldn’t find that edge when needed in front of goal. I know Doc gets a bit of criticism from time to time on here, but thought he was excellent today. Hopefully they can still take confidence from the level they produced. On to the next one.2
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Fantastic effort across the park and we didn't look out of place at all. So unfortunate the ball didn't land for us today.
It's an unpopular opinion as they're we'll liked players, but TC and Leaburn as a front 2 isn't good enough at this level.8 -
ShootersHillGuru said:Have been concerned that if we go behind in games we’ll struggle to get back into it and so it transpired
We didn't get back in the game because we were already in it.0 - Sponsored links:
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Vile! Leicester Orientfollett said:11 -
Doc was outstanding today. Real captain's performanceValleyGary said:I thought Coventry and Doc were superb. Proper smash and grab from Leicester but a wake up call at this level if you don’t take your chances, the best player on the pitch will punish you. We lost but I’m still very positive.7 -
Would disagree with it being boring football. Best football we’ve played in years and we’ve got players in this team that are great with the ball at there feet and it’s a lot more than just lumping it fwd…jimmymelrose said:Our style of football is ok if we're getting results, and seeing as we're battling with a team better than the sum of its parts, I'm not complaining.
However, it's very boring football and often with the same tactic of lumping it into the air in the box, with Jones to head it at the far post. It's very predictable. We're never going to see Kelman be effective with this style of football. I can only see him shine away from home on the break when defending a lead.
Before others think I'm being negative, I'll be happy just to stay up for the next two seasons. If this football is what it takes then so be it.
Well fought by the team and on other days we'll get a result.
I think our strike force, Kelman included will start clicking. Tanto just offside squared a ball to Kelman and that would have been his first goal.10 -
That sounds like our old Orient mate, has he now got a Leicester one too...🤦♂️follett said:3 -
As frustrated as I am that we didn’t win this game made me excited for the rest of the season we really do look good. Am I getting ahead of myself to say I think we could surprise people and finish 6th-8th? They just need to work on the final ball.2
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Not sure Fred West would have buried anything deep in the net!LoOkOuT said:
Could have had Fred West up front, their keeper just wasn’t being beaten today.AberystwythAddick said:Lack of killers in front of goal are going to hurt us this season5 -
Shit result but proud, looking forward to Nathan's view and what the next league game brings.... 5 defeats on the spin and maybe then I become a bed wetter0
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Doc man of the match for me. I know many have doubts about him but I thought he was superb today, in fact him along with Edwards and Coventry were fantastic, completely justified their places in the starting 11
its a strange one though, I’ve never watched a game that felt so one sided yet we’re walking away with nothing! There’s so many positives I can take from it and don’t feel there’s anything that let me down. It just was one of those days where that little bit of luck would put a ball in the net.One thing I’m really happy about is the atmosphere was fantastic throughout. Even more so after they scored in fact! We gave it all and should have our heads high after that14 -
My head is fully gone after that, fuming we didn’t take our chances, fuming they shithoused their way to three points.4
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Your comment re Kaminski is absolutely ridiculous.🫤valleynick66 said:We played well but nothing to show for it. Just no luck today.Nothing to be worried about however.Kaminski (for me) remains the least impressive of our new signings.
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Crowd were amazing as well.top draw supportSmithy said:Overwhelming feeling coming out of that one is pride at the performance. We were comfortably the better side against an extremely expensive team.
Coventry was sublime but just couldn’t find the finish. Docherty much improved. Carey is so good in terms of how he’s just always available for the pass and it makes a big difference to our attacking play.I really think TC needs swapping out for Olaofe next game. His passing is a big problem and that chance really should have found the net at the end.2 -
Thoughts after the match are that if we play as well as that through the season we will probably do alright. Not going to storm the league but we’ll stay up. We will definitely have worse to play against than Leicester.Given that the value of their squad is about ten times ours, we gave a good account of ourselves, and we took it to them in the first half.Referee was shocking. I think the main benefit of their Prem experience was knowing how to play the ref and get away with it. Felt like they spent more time on the floor than on their feet.7
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Insane take. Matawu is the best player he will come up against this season and he did reasonably well when you consider he was 1 on 1 with him the majority of the time. Most teams would have 2 men on him instantly, everytime he gets the ball!Southbank said:I have a growing worry that Josh Edwards may not be able to step up enough to justify his place. Maybe a LWB is what we are still looking for.8 -
Tyreece Campbell is not a Championship striker - he won’t score all season. Get Olaofe up top with Leaburn!8
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How the fuck did we not get anything from that? Bossed the game, almost from start to finish.
think this is the difference between league one and the championship, Leicester had a player to pull off a moment of magic in a moment of weakness. We never had that.2 -
Can’t believe some don’t rate Edwards. Been utterly brilliant defensively so far this season. The goal today was a moment of brilliance, 9 times out of 10 that doesn’t go in.50
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Bar maaaaybe Jack Clarke , there won't be a better winger in the League we face than Fatuwu , in fact I would be surprised if he's still there next week.5
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Couldn't agree more.king addick said:Imagine I'll get backlash but TC needs to be dropped. No end product and lightweight. Tanto come on and showed more.0 -
I thought we played well and deserved a point at the very least. The only grumble I have is that TC should've come off, he's a bright young player who has something to offer, but it wasn't happening for him today.3
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Play like that every week we will be fine
2 divisions apart a few months ago and one worldie settled itDeserved a point but the unbeaten home record has gone before the spanners we move on3
