POST-MATCH THREAD: Ipswich Town v Charlton Athletic: Tuesday 21st October 2025: KO 19:45

Southbank said:

MickeyBennett said:

Incredible performance - weird that the team did not seem leggy at all. Was surprised given mediocre performance against sheff Wednesday.

Thought Kelman/Tanto looked like more balanced partnership so would go with that again for Hull.

Want to see Leaburn/Campbell start together at some point as they look to have good understanding. Though appreciate this would impact the way we press teams.

Now that we are promotion contenders maybe teams will get wuse to our tactics and start sitting back against us. Leaburn/Campbell would be ideal in this scenario.

The absence of TC first half led to increased pressure on us, as Tanto cannot press like TC. Had Akpom's shot gone instead of hitting the bar, the game would have gone differently. Apart from missing a good chance Tanto did not offer much attacking either.
The fact that we took great advantage second half should not blind us to the problem of only having two pressing forwards.

Ahh so TC came on at 0-0 did he when we were under the cosh? 

Been plenty of games where for 60 minutes we've withstood similar pressure with TC being on the pitch, only for the subs to turn the game around to steal a 1-0. 

ShootersHillGuru said:

I’m done with trying to second guess this Charlton team. I thought Ipswich at home would have too much for us last night and after the first 35 minutes I was expecting a 3 - 0 but not a 0 - 3. Yes we rode our luck but we grafted and never dropped our heads when we could have actually been 3 - 0 down. Perhaps the real difference between us and them was that although we’re not all conquering we’re not fragile and I think Ipswich showed last night second half that they are brittle. They collapsed. Jones has built a group that are a proper team. No egos, no slackers and battlers to a man. Will that be enough to get us into playoff contention ? I still don’t think so but I said the same last season. What I do know is that any team we play will have to be on their game to beat us. First season back and that’s all we can ask for. Away support magnificent .

We all see things differently,but I dont think we rode our luck.We defended superbly,and really restricted their opportunities.We had as many chances as them,Tanto,Gillespie should have scored,plus TC had one miss by a whisker,and then the half volley by I think Bree,which he had time to take a touch.Playing like this we will frustrate many supposedly superior sides.

AddicksAddict said:

Hartleypete said:

Probably the best Charlton performance I have seen live on Tv.

Well done Nathan and the boys, wonderful stuff.

I take it you didn’t see the 4-2 at Highbury?

Watched live not on tv.

Southbank said:

MickeyBennett said:

Incredible performance - weird that the team did not seem leggy at all. Was surprised given mediocre performance against sheff Wednesday.

Thought Kelman/Tanto looked like more balanced partnership so would go with that again for Hull.

Want to see Leaburn/Campbell start together at some point as they look to have good understanding. Though appreciate this would impact the way we press teams.

Now that we are promotion contenders maybe teams will get wuse to our tactics and start sitting back against us. Leaburn/Campbell would be ideal in this scenario.

The absence of TC first half led to increased pressure on us, as Tanto cannot press like TC. Had Akpom's shot gone instead of hitting the bar, the game would have gone differently. Apart from missing a good chance Tanto did not offer much attacking either.
The fact that we took great advantage second half should not blind us to the problem of only having two pressing forwards.

I think our first half problems were more about what we were doing with the ball than what we were doing without it. 

Southbank said:

SELR_addicks said:

Southbank said:

MickeyBennett said:

Incredible performance - weird that the team did not seem leggy at all. Was surprised given mediocre performance against sheff Wednesday.

Thought Kelman/Tanto looked like more balanced partnership so would go with that again for Hull.

Want to see Leaburn/Campbell start together at some point as they look to have good understanding. Though appreciate this would impact the way we press teams.

Now that we are promotion contenders maybe teams will get wuse to our tactics and start sitting back against us. Leaburn/Campbell would be ideal in this scenario.

The absence of TC first half led to increased pressure on us, as Tanto cannot press like TC. Had Akpom's shot gone instead of hitting the bar, the game would have gone differently. Apart from missing a good chance Tanto did not offer much attacking either.
The fact that we took great advantage second half should not blind us to the problem of only having two pressing forwards.

Ahh so TC came on at 0-0 did he when we were under the cosh? 

Been plenty of games where for 60 minutes we've withstood similar pressure with TC being on the pitch, only for the subs to turn the game around to steal a 1-0. 

I would be very surprised if TC does not start on Saturday.

I'd keep it as is, I mean it worked pretty well didn't it?

Braziliance, best vlog yet, good luck up at Hull on Saturday.
When you asked what happened to Ipswich in 1978, they beat Arsenal at Wembley 1-0 in the Cup Final. I know because I was there!

Braziliance said:

Vlog is up, has been since 8am, sorry

https://youtu.be/y0Ge9_kCSpk?si=_-BlkiLNWtx6Fjnm

You sat 3 seats to the right of us second half, was too busy to really say hello!

Captured the night tho, we just sat and watched the vlog, smiled the whole way through (helps we’re going mad in the background)

Southbank said:

MickeyBennett said:

Incredible performance - weird that the team did not seem leggy at all. Was surprised given mediocre performance against sheff Wednesday.

Thought Kelman/Tanto looked like more balanced partnership so would go with that again for Hull.

Want to see Leaburn/Campbell start together at some point as they look to have good understanding. Though appreciate this would impact the way we press teams.

Now that we are promotion contenders maybe teams will get wuse to our tactics and start sitting back against us. Leaburn/Campbell would be ideal in this scenario.

The absence of TC first half led to increased pressure on us, as Tanto cannot press like TC. Had Akpom's shot gone instead of hitting the bar, the game would have gone differently. Apart from missing a good chance Tanto did not offer much attacking either.
The fact that we took great advantage second half should not blind us to the problem of only having two pressing forwards.

If you think Tanto can't press (when even his ex manager Dave Challinor has singled out how could his pressing is) and the absence of TC is the reason we were under increased pressure (what about the game where we were under pressure with TC on the pitch), then I don't think you have a good grip on what football is, anyone who watched the game yesterday could see in the first half, Ipswich, who do have some notable technican were bypassing any press, which happens they are a recent Prem team, and in turn we were quite sloppy when we did have the ball, and that wasnt down to the absence of TC

I thought the issue up front, first half, wasn't our inability to press (because we were pressing and Ipswich were just quite good at playing around it, as you would expect of a recently relegated side with plenty of ex Premier League players). More our issue was our passing wasn't sharp or accurate enough and we lacked a hold up man to get on the ball and allow us to get up the pitch a bit. In that regard, Leaburn might have made more of a difference, than TC, as he showed second half how good he is at that when he gets balls into his feet.

Neither Tanto or Kelman had bad games, per say, first half but we didn't give them much to work with in terms of accurate forward passes. Once the midfield started to get to grips with the game that changed and the forward players (all 4 of them) looked better and more involved.

Also worth remembering that by the time TC and Leaburn were on yesterday we were already 2-0 up. Ipswich were both chasing the game and in general disarray at that point which left huge gaping spaces for the two of them to exploit. A luxury our forwards are not often afforded when so many of our games are tight affairs won or lost by the odd goal. They were both bound to look better in those circumstances, although still deserve praise for causing quite as much chaos for the Ipswich defence as they did.

Exiled_Addick said:

I thought the issue up front, first half, wasn't our inability to press (because we were pressing and Ipswich were just quite good at playing around it, as you would expect of a recently relegated side with plenty of ex Premier League players). More our issue was our passing wasn't sharp or accurate enough and we lacked a hold up man to get on the ball and allow us to get up the pitch a bit. In that regard, Leaburn might have made more of a difference, than TC, as he showed second half how good he is at that when he gets balls into his feet.

Neither Tanto or Kelman had bad games, per say, first half but we didn't give them much to work with in terms of accurate forward passes. Once the midfield started to get to grips with the game that changed and the forward players (all 4 of them) looked better and more involved.

Also worth remembering that by the time TC and Leaburn were on yesterday we were already 2-0 up. Ipswich were both chasing the game and in general disarray at that point which left huge gaping spaces for the two of them to exploit. A luxury our forwards are not often afforded when so many of our games are tight affairs won or lost by the odd goal. They were both bound to look better in those circumstances, although still deserve praise for causing quite as much chaos for the Ipswich defence as they did.

You make an excellent point about the timing of TC and Leaburn’s introduction and their performances need to be analysed in that context. Both did very well but against a tiring defence which as you say was in disarray.