Maynard-Brewer
Burke - Mitchell - Gillesphey
Rylah - Costello - Anderson - Fullah
Knibbs
Kelman - Olaofe
Substitutes: Reid - Berry - Docherty - Apter - Enslin - Laqeretabua - Leaburn - Mwamba - Mbick
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MATCH PREVIEW: Cambridge United vs Charlton Athletic - Tuesday 26th August 2025 - 7:30pm Kick-Off
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Hoping for a win and some players to get form, fitness and in other cases, some goals.
League is clearly the main comp for us but an away day at a big prem club wouldnt go amiss.
Cambridge 0- Charlton 2 (Kelman and Fullah)
Also hoping Everton beat Mansfield and we are lucky enough to get the tie at the new ground!2 -
Your talking about the old Charlton mate ! this is the new Charlton lolShootersHillGuru said:Charlton don’t do cups. Cambridge 2 - Charlton 02 -
Looks like Cambridge went pretty full strength in their first round tie, so would expect a strong side from them here and a competitive game0
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So I’m in France - I think that’s going to make it difficult to watch this? Only on sky sports+ which won’t work in France and is immune to vpn workarounds
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Yeah Sky are very hard to break with VPNs. Spent years trying to crack them in Canada!TeeC said:So I’m in France - I think that’s going to make it difficult to watch this? Only on sky sports+ which won’t work in France and is immune to vpn workarounds0 -
Only thing Jones has changed so far is Leaburn and Kelman. It’s clear he Likes Apter Carey TC even if we all don’t necessarily agree, potentially he’s undecided on Carey and Knibbs but Carey has played so well he hasn’t deserved to lose his spot just yet. Jones definitely knows what he wants up top fans just don’t agreeSouthbank said:
We have been very consistent in the League starting 11. This is a different competition and an opportunity to create competition for places, get players match fit and give our youngsters an opportunity. The latter has already paid off by showing that Fullah may be able to make a step up this season . I doubt the starting 11 on Saturday will be much different from last week, except maybe up front because NJ has not quite worked out his best front 4.letthegoodtimesroll said:
Must admit that looks like a great line up but anything that doesn’t resemble our Championship starting eleven doesn’t help the primary objective and that is the Championship match on Saturday. Learn the lessons from last season, what fucked up our form and had us staring at the relegation spots was inconsistency in the lineup and what turned it around and got us to the play offs and promotion was consistency in the starting eleven.ForeverAddickted said:League Cup - Second Round
Cambridge United vs Charlton Athletic
Tuesday 26th August 2025 - 7:30pm Kick-Off
Referee: David Rock
Introduction
EFL Championship action grounds to a halt once more this coming Tuesday. The Addicks return to League Cup action this midweek having despatched League One: Stevenage with a convincing 3-1 victory, courtesy of goals from Miles Leaburn, Luke Berry and Ibrahim Fullah, with the latter not looking out of place in Senior Football...
The Opposition
Name: Cambridge United - Manager: Neil Harris
Division: League Two
Last Round: Bristol Rovers 0-2 Cambridge United
This Tuesday is an opportunity to right the wrongs from our Pre-Season clash with Cambridge United, which ended all square last month... Our opponents tomorrow, reached this round of the competition with a 2-0 win over fellow League Two side: Bristol Rovers, and is their fifth appearance at this stage of the League Cup, since returning from the National League in 2014-15... Cambridge have failed to reach the third round on each of those occasions.
In terms of 2025/26 and this is a season where Cambridge will be looking to bounce back from relegation last season, four years were spent in League One, so Neil Harris will be looking to engineer an instant return to the third tier of English Football. The season so far has yielded inconstant results, Cambridge sit 13th with seven points (Having played a game more than those sides in the Championship), and have two wins, one defeat and a draw. Their last outing in League action, came on Saturday, a 2-1 win at Colchester United.
Charlton Team News
Once again you'd expect Nathan Jones to wring the changes between cup and league football, so we should expect to see Ibrahim Fullah in the starting eleven once more, especially as he was named in the twenty man squad for the visit of Leicester City on Saturday.
Elsewhere and you'd expect starts for Tanto Olaofe and Charlie Kelman, with both having to settle for cameos on Saturday, and both will be going into this match, hoping to get off the mark with their first goals for the club. One question mark in the side surrounds the gap left by Alex Mitchell... the Centre-Back faced Stevenage in the last round, yet has since departed on a season long loan to Plymouth Argyle, is this the ideal opportunity for Reece Burke to gain valuable minutes, in what has been an injury hit start to his Charlton career.0 -
I think he wants Knibbs over Carey but Knibbs isn't fit enough yet and as you say Carey hasn't done anything wrong to be displaced. If Harvey can play well tonight he might earn the shirtCrispywood said:
Only thing Jones has changed so far is Leaburn and Kelman. It’s clear he Likes Apter Carey TC even if we all don’t necessarily agree, potentially he’s undecided on Carey and Knibbs but Carey has played so well he hasn’t deserved to lose his spot just yet. Jones definitely knows what he wants up top fans just don’t agreeSouthbank said:
We have been very consistent in the League starting 11. This is a different competition and an opportunity to create competition for places, get players match fit and give our youngsters an opportunity. The latter has already paid off by showing that Fullah may be able to make a step up this season . I doubt the starting 11 on Saturday will be much different from last week, except maybe up front because NJ has not quite worked out his best front 4.letthegoodtimesroll said:
Must admit that looks like a great line up but anything that doesn’t resemble our Championship starting eleven doesn’t help the primary objective and that is the Championship match on Saturday. Learn the lessons from last season, what fucked up our form and had us staring at the relegation spots was inconsistency in the lineup and what turned it around and got us to the play offs and promotion was consistency in the starting eleven.ForeverAddickted said:League Cup - Second Round
Cambridge United vs Charlton Athletic
Tuesday 26th August 2025 - 7:30pm Kick-Off
Referee: David Rock
Introduction
EFL Championship action grounds to a halt once more this coming Tuesday. The Addicks return to League Cup action this midweek having despatched League One: Stevenage with a convincing 3-1 victory, courtesy of goals from Miles Leaburn, Luke Berry and Ibrahim Fullah, with the latter not looking out of place in Senior Football...
The Opposition
Name: Cambridge United - Manager: Neil Harris
Division: League Two
Last Round: Bristol Rovers 0-2 Cambridge United
This Tuesday is an opportunity to right the wrongs from our Pre-Season clash with Cambridge United, which ended all square last month... Our opponents tomorrow, reached this round of the competition with a 2-0 win over fellow League Two side: Bristol Rovers, and is their fifth appearance at this stage of the League Cup, since returning from the National League in 2014-15... Cambridge have failed to reach the third round on each of those occasions.
In terms of 2025/26 and this is a season where Cambridge will be looking to bounce back from relegation last season, four years were spent in League One, so Neil Harris will be looking to engineer an instant return to the third tier of English Football. The season so far has yielded inconstant results, Cambridge sit 13th with seven points (Having played a game more than those sides in the Championship), and have two wins, one defeat and a draw. Their last outing in League action, came on Saturday, a 2-1 win at Colchester United.
Charlton Team News
Once again you'd expect Nathan Jones to wring the changes between cup and league football, so we should expect to see Ibrahim Fullah in the starting eleven once more, especially as he was named in the twenty man squad for the visit of Leicester City on Saturday.
Elsewhere and you'd expect starts for Tanto Olaofe and Charlie Kelman, with both having to settle for cameos on Saturday, and both will be going into this match, hoping to get off the mark with their first goals for the club. One question mark in the side surrounds the gap left by Alex Mitchell... the Centre-Back faced Stevenage in the last round, yet has since departed on a season long loan to Plymouth Argyle, is this the ideal opportunity for Reece Burke to gain valuable minutes, in what has been an injury hit start to his Charlton career.Maynard-Brewer
Burke - Mitchell - Gillesphey
Rylah - Costello - Anderson - Fullah
Knibbs
Kelman - Olaofe
Substitutes: Reid - Berry - Docherty - Apter - Enslin - Laqeretabua - Leaburn - Mwamba - Mbick1 -
There were two phases last season, the one where we constantly rotated the team and were looking at the relegation spots, and the one where we basically picked the same starting eleven or near enough the same starting eleven, won lots of games, moved up the table and finished in a play off place and then won promotion via the playoffs. Funny how we ‘risked’ the ‘first teamers’ and they were nearly always available for each successive game.wmcf123 said:
We have to work too hard to risk first teamers in games like that . We went up last year so it didn’t go too badlyletthegoodtimesroll said:
Must admit that looks like a great line up but anything that doesn’t resemble our Championship starting eleven doesn’t help the primary objective and that is the Championship match on Saturday. Learn the lessons from last season, what fucked up our form and had us staring at the relegation spots was inconsistency in the lineup and what turned it around and got us to the play offs and promotion was consistency in the starting eleven.ForeverAddickted said:League Cup - Second Round
Cambridge United vs Charlton Athletic
Tuesday 26th August 2025 - 7:30pm Kick-Off
Referee: David Rock
Introduction
EFL Championship action grounds to a halt once more this coming Tuesday. The Addicks return to League Cup action this midweek having despatched League One: Stevenage with a convincing 3-1 victory, courtesy of goals from Miles Leaburn, Luke Berry and Ibrahim Fullah, with the latter not looking out of place in Senior Football...
The Opposition
Name: Cambridge United - Manager: Neil Harris
Division: League Two
Last Round: Bristol Rovers 0-2 Cambridge United
This Tuesday is an opportunity to right the wrongs from our Pre-Season clash with Cambridge United, which ended all square last month... Our opponents tomorrow, reached this round of the competition with a 2-0 win over fellow League Two side: Bristol Rovers, and is their fifth appearance at this stage of the League Cup, since returning from the National League in 2014-15... Cambridge have failed to reach the third round on each of those occasions.
In terms of 2025/26 and this is a season where Cambridge will be looking to bounce back from relegation last season, four years were spent in League One, so Neil Harris will be looking to engineer an instant return to the third tier of English Football. The season so far has yielded inconstant results, Cambridge sit 13th with seven points (Having played a game more than those sides in the Championship), and have two wins, one defeat and a draw. Their last outing in League action, came on Saturday, a 2-1 win at Colchester United.
Charlton Team News
Once again you'd expect Nathan Jones to wring the changes between cup and league football, so we should expect to see Ibrahim Fullah in the starting eleven once more, especially as he was named in the twenty man squad for the visit of Leicester City on Saturday.
Elsewhere and you'd expect starts for Tanto Olaofe and Charlie Kelman, with both having to settle for cameos on Saturday, and both will be going into this match, hoping to get off the mark with their first goals for the club. One question mark in the side surrounds the gap left by Alex Mitchell... the Centre-Back faced Stevenage in the last round, yet has since departed on a season long loan to Plymouth Argyle, is this the ideal opportunity for Reece Burke to gain valuable minutes, in what has been an injury hit start to his Charlton career.Maynard-Brewer
Burke - Mitchell - Gillesphey
Rylah - Costello - Anderson - Fullah
Knibbs
Kelman - Olaofe
Substitutes: Reid - Berry - Docherty - Apter - Enslin - Laqeretabua - Leaburn - Mwamba - Mbick
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We were out of the cups and then picked our best team for all the league games . I don’t advocate playing the squad players in the league.letthegoodtimesroll said:
There were two phases last season, the one where we constantly rotated the team and were looking at the relegation spots, and the one where we basically picked the same starting eleven or near enough the same starting eleven, won lots of games, moved up the table and finished in a play off place and then won promotion via the playoffs. Funny how we ‘risked’ the ‘first teamers’ and they were nearly always available for each successive game.wmcf123 said:
We have to work too hard to risk first teamers in games like that . We went up last year so it didn’t go too badlyletthegoodtimesroll said:
Must admit that looks like a great line up but anything that doesn’t resemble our Championship starting eleven doesn’t help the primary objective and that is the Championship match on Saturday. Learn the lessons from last season, what fucked up our form and had us staring at the relegation spots was inconsistency in the lineup and what turned it around and got us to the play offs and promotion was consistency in the starting eleven.ForeverAddickted said:League Cup - Second Round
Cambridge United vs Charlton Athletic
Tuesday 26th August 2025 - 7:30pm Kick-Off
Referee: David Rock
Introduction
EFL Championship action grounds to a halt once more this coming Tuesday. The Addicks return to League Cup action this midweek having despatched League One: Stevenage with a convincing 3-1 victory, courtesy of goals from Miles Leaburn, Luke Berry and Ibrahim Fullah, with the latter not looking out of place in Senior Football...
The Opposition
Name: Cambridge United - Manager: Neil Harris
Division: League Two
Last Round: Bristol Rovers 0-2 Cambridge United
This Tuesday is an opportunity to right the wrongs from our Pre-Season clash with Cambridge United, which ended all square last month... Our opponents tomorrow, reached this round of the competition with a 2-0 win over fellow League Two side: Bristol Rovers, and is their fifth appearance at this stage of the League Cup, since returning from the National League in 2014-15... Cambridge have failed to reach the third round on each of those occasions.
In terms of 2025/26 and this is a season where Cambridge will be looking to bounce back from relegation last season, four years were spent in League One, so Neil Harris will be looking to engineer an instant return to the third tier of English Football. The season so far has yielded inconstant results, Cambridge sit 13th with seven points (Having played a game more than those sides in the Championship), and have two wins, one defeat and a draw. Their last outing in League action, came on Saturday, a 2-1 win at Colchester United.
Charlton Team News
Once again you'd expect Nathan Jones to wring the changes between cup and league football, so we should expect to see Ibrahim Fullah in the starting eleven once more, especially as he was named in the twenty man squad for the visit of Leicester City on Saturday.
Elsewhere and you'd expect starts for Tanto Olaofe and Charlie Kelman, with both having to settle for cameos on Saturday, and both will be going into this match, hoping to get off the mark with their first goals for the club. One question mark in the side surrounds the gap left by Alex Mitchell... the Centre-Back faced Stevenage in the last round, yet has since departed on a season long loan to Plymouth Argyle, is this the ideal opportunity for Reece Burke to gain valuable minutes, in what has been an injury hit start to his Charlton career.Maynard-Brewer
Burke - Mitchell - Gillesphey
Rylah - Costello - Anderson - Fullah
Knibbs
Kelman - Olaofe
Substitutes: Reid - Berry - Docherty - Apter - Enslin - Laqeretabua - Leaburn - Mwamba - Mbick0 -
I have saved this post. It maybe refered to at 9.15!AndyG said:
Your talking about the old Charlton mate ! this is the new Charlton lolShootersHillGuru said:Charlton don’t do cups. Cambridge 2 - Charlton 01 - Sponsored links:
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Had more luck when my phone and computer were both on the same location.cafcnick1992 said:
Yeah Sky are very hard to break with VPNs. Spent years trying to crack them in Canada!TeeC said:So I’m in France - I think that’s going to make it difficult to watch this? Only on sky sports+ which won’t work in France and is immune to vpn workarounds0 -
Massive conflation here though. Second half of the season when we were already out of all the cups so only had league games and therefore had no reason to rotate. Also didn't have all that many midweek games.letthegoodtimesroll said:
There were two phases last season, the one where we constantly rotated the team and were looking at the relegation spots, and the one where we basically picked the same starting eleven or near enough the same starting eleven, won lots of games, moved up the table and finished in a play off place and then won promotion via the playoffs. Funny how we ‘risked’ the ‘first teamers’ and they were nearly always available for each successive game.wmcf123 said:
We have to work too hard to risk first teamers in games like that . We went up last year so it didn’t go too badlyletthegoodtimesroll said:
Must admit that looks like a great line up but anything that doesn’t resemble our Championship starting eleven doesn’t help the primary objective and that is the Championship match on Saturday. Learn the lessons from last season, what fucked up our form and had us staring at the relegation spots was inconsistency in the lineup and what turned it around and got us to the play offs and promotion was consistency in the starting eleven.ForeverAddickted said:League Cup - Second Round
Cambridge United vs Charlton Athletic
Tuesday 26th August 2025 - 7:30pm Kick-Off
Referee: David Rock
Introduction
EFL Championship action grounds to a halt once more this coming Tuesday. The Addicks return to League Cup action this midweek having despatched League One: Stevenage with a convincing 3-1 victory, courtesy of goals from Miles Leaburn, Luke Berry and Ibrahim Fullah, with the latter not looking out of place in Senior Football...
The Opposition
Name: Cambridge United - Manager: Neil Harris
Division: League Two
Last Round: Bristol Rovers 0-2 Cambridge United
This Tuesday is an opportunity to right the wrongs from our Pre-Season clash with Cambridge United, which ended all square last month... Our opponents tomorrow, reached this round of the competition with a 2-0 win over fellow League Two side: Bristol Rovers, and is their fifth appearance at this stage of the League Cup, since returning from the National League in 2014-15... Cambridge have failed to reach the third round on each of those occasions.
In terms of 2025/26 and this is a season where Cambridge will be looking to bounce back from relegation last season, four years were spent in League One, so Neil Harris will be looking to engineer an instant return to the third tier of English Football. The season so far has yielded inconstant results, Cambridge sit 13th with seven points (Having played a game more than those sides in the Championship), and have two wins, one defeat and a draw. Their last outing in League action, came on Saturday, a 2-1 win at Colchester United.
Charlton Team News
Once again you'd expect Nathan Jones to wring the changes between cup and league football, so we should expect to see Ibrahim Fullah in the starting eleven once more, especially as he was named in the twenty man squad for the visit of Leicester City on Saturday.
Elsewhere and you'd expect starts for Tanto Olaofe and Charlie Kelman, with both having to settle for cameos on Saturday, and both will be going into this match, hoping to get off the mark with their first goals for the club. One question mark in the side surrounds the gap left by Alex Mitchell... the Centre-Back faced Stevenage in the last round, yet has since departed on a season long loan to Plymouth Argyle, is this the ideal opportunity for Reece Burke to gain valuable minutes, in what has been an injury hit start to his Charlton career.Maynard-Brewer
Burke - Mitchell - Gillesphey
Rylah - Costello - Anderson - Fullah
Knibbs
Kelman - Olaofe
Substitutes: Reid - Berry - Docherty - Apter - Enslin - Laqeretabua - Leaburn - Mwamba - Mbick
We are now in the championship. Still have both cups to play. Large parts of the season have saturday-tuesday league games. We absolutely have to rotate. Especially for cups. If we don't we will end up risking injuries which then compound into an injury crisis and will likely risk relegation. The teams that do well in this league rotate well. The fact that we have a bigger squad than we did second half of last season shows the management recognise this.2 -
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Oh no he isn’t! 😏RonnieMoore said:And Mannion will be in goal3 -
Looks like NJ has written this one off. No game changers on the bench if things don't work out.2
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You'd know all about those.RonnieMoore said:
Ridiculous comment ….wolfgang said:Hope to see Charlie "Kirk" Kelman get a couple.0
