Kevin Nolan’s Match Report: Oldham Athletic v Charlton Athletic (7/04/2012)

Oldham Athletic 0 Charlton 1 (Kermorgant 49).

Kevin Nolan reports from Boundary Park.

The first of three gruelling cross-Pennines treks which complete Charlton’s peregrinations up and down the green sward that is England, brought them to unlovely but loveable Oldham on Easter Saturday. The old town looked the same as they stepped down from the train, a battered relic of the palmy days when cotton was king, the mills were satanic and the exploited natives occasionally mutinous. They fought for their rights around these parts – Luddites, suffragettes and trade unionists among other turbulent protesters. Their legacy is everywhere.

On the face of it, Charlton’s assignment at dogeared Boundary Park didn’t seem too daunting. Out of touch with the play-offs but safe from relegation, the Latics suggested precisely the kind of obliging mid-table opposition promotion candidates dream about. The Addicks simply needed to slip into town, pick up the points and prepare for a much tougher Easter Monday task at home to relegation-haunted Walsall.

So much for expectations. The reality pitched Charlton into a riotous, titanic battle which featured three red cards and eleven yellow cards, besides raging fiercely until the last seconds of five added minutes ran out. And when this exercise in suffocating intensity finally ended, the nine-man visitors had clung to an uphill victory of inestimable value. Midway through a deceptively routine first half, to understate the case, that seemed unlikely.

The opening exchanges had been innocuous enough, with only an early chance missed by Scott Wagstaff and a caution issued to Jean Yves M’Voto for hacking down Yann Kermorgant, worthy of mention. Both Wagstaff and M’Voto were to feature heavily in later events.

A spirited but far from vicious encounter was beginning to settle down when deputy skipper Danny Hollands needlessly piled into Kieran Lee on the left touchline. Intent was irrelevant and a red card possibly justified. Deserved or not, the loss of their dynamic midfielder took the wind out of Charlton’s gathering sails in a game they simply had to win, with the hot breath of their relentless Sheffield pursuers singeing their neck. As they briefly wilted, M’Voto made it his business to generously even the odds no more than ten minutes later.

Apparently oblivious to his earlier yellow card, M’Voto again clattered into Kermorgant’s back, for the second time in the no-man’s land of the centre circle. His exagerrated disbelief when given his marching orders was comical – but hollow. The pendulum duly shifted in the league leaders’ favour.

Four minutes into the second half, M’Voto’s self-imposed absence in central defence returned to haunt the Lancastrians as Charlton grabbed the game’s only goal – and what a goal it was. Never reluctant to steam down the touchline, freewheeling left back Rhoys Wiggins was sent on his way by Dany N’Guessan’s astute pass and before running out of space at the corner flag, whipped over a juicy cross to the far post. Free from M’Voto’s attentions, Kermorgant stooped to guide a precise header beyond Dean Bouzanis’ left hand and give Oldham a lesson in devastating counter attacking.

Stung into reprisal, the Latics almost equalised immediately. A sweet exchange of passes between Robbie Simpson and Tom Adeyemi created room for the latter to shoot from 15 yards before the outstanding Leon Cort hurled himself into a key block. The big, commanding centre back repeated the feat in the closing stages to foil Adeyemi again.

A rousing game was rocketing along at breakneck speed when Wagstaff, already booked for tripping Harry Bunn, received a draconian yellow card from disciplinarian Trevor Kettle for a patently accidental foul on Dean Furman. Charlton’s hardworking wide man clearly slipped in challenging Furman, with a free kick no more than the Latics had coming. Once again, the pressure was on the visitors.

With the protection of Kermorgant’s priceless goal now the pressing priority, Matt Taylor was rushed in to complete a defiant back five as blocks, tackles and interceptions defied the desperate Latics. The thin red line wavered but held. They were magnificent.

Suspensions for Hollands (three games) and Wagstaff (one game) will hopefully be offset by the timely recovery from injury of captain Johnnie Jackson and the welcome return to fine form of Dale Stephens. Jackson’s leadership has been missed, while Stephens added genuine non-stop effort to his subtle skills. Chris Solly and Wiggins were again impeccable full backs, Cort overshadowed even the formidable Michael Morrison, whose last minute booking for a foul on substitute Oumare Tounkara was the act of a bone-weary player. Behind the best defence in League One, Ben Hamer put neither foot nor hand wrong. And no doubt, Bradley Wright-Phillips, an unused substitute at Boundary Park, will return refreshed to torment Walsall at The Valley on Monday. A little sleight-of-hand might be required but the gaps will be shored up by a squad whose watchword is never-say-die resilience. Depleted as they were, they had no right to win at Oldham. But win they did for a record-setting 14th time away from home. They’re quite a side.

Oldham: Bouzanis, Lee, Brown, M’Voto, Diallo (Tounkara 78), Morais (Hughes 84), Adeyemi, Furman, Simpson, Bunn (Tarkowski 42), Kuqi. Not used: Gerrard, M’Changama.

Charlton: Hamer, Solly, Cort, Morrison, Wiggins, Wagstaff, Hollands, Stephens, Cook (Taylor 76), N’Guessan (Pritchard 70), Kermorgant. Not used: Sullivan, Jackson, Wright-Phillips.

Referee: Trevor Kettle.
Attendance: 3,641 (601 Charlton fans).

Kevin Nolan’s Match Report: Charlton Athletic v Leyton Orient (31/03/2012)

Charlton 2 (Wagstaff 7, N’Guessan 82) Leyton Orient 0

Kevin Nolan reports from The Valley.

Strong, committed and defiant, Leyton Orient ticked most of the boxes on the list of demands made of them by Charlton’s promotion rivals. Harbouring ambitions of becoming the first- and only – team to pull off a league double over the league leaders, they played some neat stuff, gave their hosts a few nervous moments and weren’t above putting it about, as five cautions for physical fouls testified.

The most important box, though, was ticked by Charlton, who bookended a solid, if sometimes nervy, performance, with goals seven minutes from the start and eight minutes from the end of a massively important game. Their victory held off their frustrated Sheffield pursuers by six (United) and eight points (Wednesday) respectively. If they can keep it together now, they will be crowned League One champions. But ifs, like ands, are about as much use as pots and pans as my Mum used to say.

Springing from the starting blocks, the Addicks clearly meant business and visiting goalkeeper Paul Rachubka’s heart was probably in his mouth when he clipped Bradley Wright-Philips as the fleetfooted striker rounded him in pursuit of Yann Kermorgant’s clever flick. Well up with the play, referee Mark Brown decided against a spotkick but was again ideally positioned to spot Ben Chorley’s crude foul on Kermorgant four minutes later.

This time the O’s were appropriately punished for their wrongdoing. Kermorgant regained his feet instantly to send left back Rhoys Wiggins careering down the left wing with a quickly taken free kick. Accelerating away from defender Scott Cuthbert, Wiggins fired over a low cross which Scott Wagstaff met crisply at the near post to celebrate his 22nd birthday with his fifth league goal of a start-stop-start again season. A more perfect launch pad was hard to imagine and Charlton appeared to have promptly punched home their advantage but Leon Cort was correctly adjudged to have handled Dale Stephens’ corner into the net, with Orient reasonably but vainly suggesting that a booking, not merely a lecture, should have been his reward.

With stylish ex-Addick Matt Spring pulling the constructive strings in midfield, the East Londoners gradually found their feet and it was from Spring’s free kick that Kermorgant conceded a left wing corner, swung in dangerously by Adam Reed to cause havoc in Charlton’s penalty area. Chorley’s ferocious shot was blocked on the line by a human wall formed by Wiggins and goalkeeper Ben Hamer and somehow the rebound was smuggled clear. Spring’s blistering 30-yard drive, saved magnificently at the second attempt, by Hamer, confirmed that Orient had recovered from their nightmare start and were firmly in contention.

A roistering first half continued with Cort glancing another of Stephens’ inswinging corner narrowly wide of the right post and concluded with David Mooney, one of four former Addicks starting for Orient, somehow escaping a booking for poleaxing Wagstaff with a hopelessly timed challenge on the right touchline. Eccentric Mr. Brown had seen enough by now, with substitute Syam Ben Youssef and Jimmy Smith earning bookings for reckless fouls on Lee Cook and the embattled Kermorgant respectively before the break.

An amazing point-blank double save by Rachubka from Wright-Phillips and Cook, following Danny Hollands’ long throw, kept Charlton at bay early in the second period, while their failure to add a second goal transmitted their on-field nerves to the ever-twitchy stands, where a molten mass of tension was already beginning to form. Their peace of mind was hardly helped by the sight of Kevin Lisbie popping up to nod Reed’s 68th minute corner narrowly wide or by the desperation with which Hollands hurled himself at Terrell Forbes’ cross to clear from Spring at the expense of a corner. Orient were hardly potent but an equaliser was still far from unlikely.

With a quarter hour left, Chris Powell’s introduction of loanee Dany N’Guessan for Wright-Phillips caused raised eyebrows, two of them not a million miles north of your reporter’s nose. Not for the first time in a hugely impressive first full season, however, the rookie manager trusted his instincts and routed his would-be critics. N’ Guessan had hardly touched the ball during some seven fruitless minutes when Cook, who had contributed some neat touches but nothing earth-shattering, picked up a throw from Wiggins, took two steps into space and delivered the kind of cross, for which the description “sumptuous” was intended. Rising above the stricken Forbes, N’Guessan did it complete justice with an emphatic header into the roof of Rachubka’s net.

That sudden whoosh of air was easily explained as the collective expulsion of breath being held by another excellent Valley crowd. Like their team, they’re standing their ground, paying their dues and praying unaplogetically that May 5th sees them bidding a less than fond farewell to this unforgiving division. We’re all in this together, you, me, the chaps from the Bullingdon Club.

Charlton: Hamer, Solly, Cort, Morrison, Wiggins, Wagstaff, Hollands, Stephens, Cook (Green 87), Kermorgant, Wright-Phillips (N’Guessan 75). Not used: Sullivan, Taylor, Pritchard.

Orient: Rachubka, Cuthbert (Ben Youssef 31), Chorley, Leacock, Forbes, Porter (Andrew 82), Spring, Smith, Reed, Lisbie, Mooney (Cox 70). Not used: Laird, Taiwo.

Referee: Mark Brown. Attendance: 17,425.

N.B. No supporters of Leyton Orient were injured in the making of this report. Their feelings were scrupulously protected. Greenwich.co.uk accepts that the same claim cannot be made, in respect of the supporters of Huddersfield Town, Charlton Athletic’s opponents last week. Feathers were ruffled, angry words exchanged. We feel an apology is in order and proffer this one in a spirit of North-South rapprochement.

We are sorry you lost your temper and suggest you look for it in the same place as you last saw your sense of humour. We also share your embarrassment at Geoffrey Boycott’s claim to be Yorkshire-born and that most of the characters in Emmerdale appear to be Cockneys. We also stand ready to relay to Lancashire your remorse that the unpleasantness between you in the 15th century was all your fault. There was certainly no need for it. We need to get along together so don’t be strangers. Call us.

Kevin Nolan’s Match Report: Huddersfield Town v Charlton Athletic (24/03/2012)

Huddersfield Town 1 (Rhodes 13,pen) Charlton 0.

Kevin Nolan reports from the Galpharm Stadium.

An incendiary game of numerous flashpoints, most of which involved embattled midfielder Darrel Russell, sent Charlton crashing to a first away league defeat of 2012. They departed West Yorkshire embittered about the part played by an East Yorkshireman in their downfall. And they had a point.

By any system of judgement, Carl Boyeson’s control of this vital promotion clash was appalling. It defies belief that the Hull born Tyke was even considered to referee a Yorkshire team with so much at stake. Unless, of course, we’re meant to assume that antipathy between East and West Yorkshire rules out any possibility of bias. Only joking, m’lud, but it shouldn’t be an issue, should it?

Mr. Boyeson’s first key decision effectively sealed the issue and it must be conceded unreservedly that this time his decision was correct.

Chasing back to challenge Gary Roberts as Town attacked their visitors on the break, Russell hunted down the winger, fell for his trickery as he twisted into the penalty area and left enough leg carelessly dangling to make Roberts’ fall dramatic. Prolific netbuster Jordan Rhodes calmly made it 32 league goal this season from the penalty spot.

As Charlton were beginning to recover from their nightmare start, Boyeson’ second pivotal decision before the interval was much less impressive. His inexplicable reluctance to punish a dreadful, studs-up challenge by Antony Kay on Scott Wagstaff in the centre circle poisoned this tense game’s atmosphere beyond recall. Backpedalling self-importantly from the scene of Kay’s crime, the official’s initial body language suggested that Kay was for the high jump. Surrounded by the perpetrator’s colleagues, however, Boyeson softened his stance, showed Kay neither yellow nor red but instead re-started the game with a bounce-ball, though not before booking Ben Hamer for dissent, an insignificant offence alongside the violence that prompted his outburst.

Early in the second half, Russell, who had been performing adequately enough in central midfield was fouled by Kay but re-acted senselessly in kicking out at his opponent as they tangled on the ground. A red card was another of Boyeson’s correct calls but Russell should have been accompanied off the field by Lee Novak, who used both hands to push him over again. “If you raise your hands you leave the referee with no option but to dismiss you”, that’s the mantra we’re regularly fed. Well, Mr. Boyeson succeeded in finding an option, which entailed turning a judicial blind eye to Novak’s offence. Be fair, though, he did book Kay for the original foul and, remarkably, awarded Charlton a free kick. So the Addicks emerged from the incident with at least a diluted dollop of justice.

Sandwiched between the sporadic mayhem, Charlton, even with ten men, were marginally the better team. Missing the ailing Yann Kermorgant’s creativity and aerial threat, they coped comfortably with the Terriers’ long ball tactics, while making few chances of their own.

In the early going, Hamer’s magnificent save from Rhodes stood out in the general mediocrity. From point-blank range, League One’s Player-of-the-Season was set up by Roberts, headed firmly but Hamer’s instinctive block foiled him. Rhodes also stabbed wide at the near post after Ward’s cross dropped amid flailing feet.

At the other end, Charlton were all too toothless. Michael Morrison glanced Danny Hollands’ centre wide, then Holland himself shot over the bar. During a late rally, Hollands crossed, Morrison nodded back from the far post but Leon Cort, despite an heroic effort, could do no better than head down into the turf and harmlessly over the bar.

Defeat increases the pressure on the stuttering Addicks. It’s essential that they climb out of the clutches of League One, which, for all the fancy spin, boils down to Division Three, before they become institutionalised in it. That’s precisely what happened to the freewheeling side of 1957-58, which mounted a brave effort to climb directly back to Division One (think Premiership) the season after they were relegated in 1956-57. A tempestuous, wildly entertaining effort ended in crushing anti-climax in the season’s last game on April 26th 1958, with 4-3 defeat by Blackburn Rovers, who leapfrogged the Addicks to join champions West Ham in the top flight. Over 56,000 hearts were broken on that fateful afternoon.

It’s fair to say that Charlton Athletic were shattered by their heroic failure. They subsequently endured seemingly endless seasons of yo-yoing between Divisions Two and Three until Lennie Lawrence hauled them back into Division One in 1986.
If we don’t learn from history, we’re doomed to repeat its mistakes. And 1957-58 hands us down a warning from history.
Failure this season is unthinkable. There might not be another chance half as golden as this one and it musn’t slip through Charlton’s fingers. The repercussions would dwarf those of 54 years ago. And some of us don’t have the time to wait it out again.

Huddersfield: Smithies, Hunt, Peter Clarke, Morrison, Tom Clarke, Roberts (Lee 69), Arismendi (Arfield 90), Kay (Gudjonsson 69), Ward, Rhodes, Novak. Not used: Bennett, Woods.

Charlton: Hamer, Solly, Morrison, Cort, Wiggins, Wagstaff, Russell (sent off), Hollands, N’Guessan (Stephens 60), Hayes (Pritchard 81), Wright-Phillips. Not used: Sullivan, Taylor, Cook.

Referee: Carl Boyeson. Attendance: 15,735.

Edit: This post was amended at 20.04 on Sunday 25th March.

Kevin Nolan’s Match Report: Charlton Athletic v Yeovil (20/03/2012)

Charlton 3 (N’Guessan 7, Wright-Phillips 60, Russell 90) Yeovil 0

Kevin Nolan reports from The Valley.

At the fourth time of asking, Charlton resumed winning ways and stopped their recent blip becoming an expanding blot on their excellent record. They were never particularly convincing in beating in-form Yeovil but, as relieved boss Chris Powell was happy to remind pernickety critics, results are the be-all and end-all at this critical stage of the season.

Having rung the changes in a battleweary team, Powell was entitled to be pleased with the contributions made by the new blood. Even the happy gaffer, however, could hardly have predicted the immediate impact of loan signing Dany N’Guessan, who continued a penchant for debut goals for new clubs by
putting the Addicks ahead after just seven minutes.

The visitors seemed to have survived a fleeting scare when Bradley Wright-Phillips beat goalkeeper Sam Walker to Danny Hollands’ lofted pass but saw his improvised lob cleared over the left touchline. Accepting Rhoys Wiggins’ throw-in, N’Guessan cut in on his right foot before letting fly with a wickedly swerving delivery which started its journey as a cross but ended it by soaring through Walker’s hands into the top right corner. All obvious puns involving the scorer’s surname will, in this report, be resolutely resisted.

As a morale booster, N’Guessan’s early opener could scarcely have been bettered. Oddly enough, though, the over-anxious league leaders failed to build on their lucky break. Tension riddled every pass, every clearance was laboured. The Glovers were far from impressive themselves but were allowed back into a game that might otherwise have run away from them.They lived nervously when Yann Kermorgant began a lively shift by heading Chris Solly’s free kick wide and again when Scott Wagstaff charged down Dean Parrett’s botched free kick, broke clear but failed to pick out Wright-Phillips with a crucial pass. Town survived, then hit back.

Their first effort on target was a dangerous 25-yarder from midfielder Edward Upson which Ben Hamer saved at his right-hand post, at the expense of a corner. Hamer was called into action again by Parrett’s crisp daisycutter but coped at the second attempt. And when Jonathan Franks mugged Hollands into fouling him in perfect range for setpiece expert Gavin Williams, the free kick was sent wastefully over the bar.
An uncomfortable first half ended with Hollands heading Solly’s corner too high.

News that Sheffield United were annihilating recent Valley conquerors Notts County and that next Saturday’s opposition Huddersfield Town were in front at Chesterfield was balanced somewhat by the surprising problems Sheffield Wednesday were experiencing at home to lowly Walsall. They say you shouldn’t be worrying about other results but that’s a crock of horse manure. You wouldn’t be human if you didn’t.

Back at The Valley, meanwhile, half-time substitute Bondz N’Gala, owner of a superb moniker, was making another name for himself. First he cleared off the line after Hollands’ long throw bounced through a crowd, presumably collecting a touch on its way to the far post, then smashed what appeared to be a point-blank equaliser at the other end until Hamer bravely and brilliantly parried.

A pent-up Valley was fretting restlessly as the hour mark approached but any side with Wright-Phillips leading its forward line stands half a chance of scoring. Wright-Phillips had worked hard without great effect but patience is second nature to the born predator. His reward arrived when Franks fouled Wagstaff and Wiggins deliberately zeroed the free kick on to Kermorgant’s head beyond the far post. The big Breton nodded square, the defensively outstanding Leon Cort luckily missed contact and there was Wright-Phillips, hardly likely to miss a free header from six yards. That’s 21 goals for a season blighted by an eleven game scoring drought. Very impressive.

Essential daylight had appeared between the teams, though Lawson D’Ath, set up by right back Luke Ayling, almost closed the gap immediately but was unlucky that his first-time effort rebounded off the bar. The Glovers’ bolt was shot but their cockahoop hosts weren’t quite finished yet.
An elusive handful, capable of popping up anywhere, Kermorgant capped an important performance with a key contribution to a third goal. His skilful chest control and fine pass set Wiggins on his way down the left flank, to carefully pick out Darrel Russell’s late run into the six-yard box. The left back’s measured ball was stabbed home by Russell to seal a deceptively comprehensive victory. But still a victory.

And they are priceless as promotion push becomes promotion shove.

Charlton: Hamer, Solly, Morrison, Cort, Wiggins, Wagstaff, Hollands, Russell, N’Guessan (Green 74), Kermorgant, Wright-Phillips. Not used: Sullivan, Taylor, Stephens, Pritchard.

Yeovil: Walker, Ayling, Huntington, Hinds (N’Gala 46), Grounds, Gavin Williams (D’Ath 45), Franks, Blizzard, Upson, Parrett (Agard 69), Andrew Williams. Not used: Stewart, Woods.

Referee: D.Coote. Attendance: 13,715.

Kevin Nolan’s Match Report: Scunthorpe United v Charlton Athletic (17/03/2012)

Scunthorpe United 1 ( Parkin 21,pen) Charlton 1 (Wright-Phillips 6).

Kevin Nolan reports from Glanford Park.

Battleweary, disjointed and out of step with each other, Charlton are not so much charging into The Championship as sneaking up on its blind side. This scruffy, scrappy draw, in conjunction with favourable results elsewhere, could possibly be regarded as a lumbering step forward, not that there was much encouragement derived from their ponderous performance. Apart, that is, from a very useful point.

That modest return was assured by a 6th minute flash of pure quality that stood out among the depressing dross which followed it, like genuine wit from Jimmy Carr.
The well-documented woes endured by Bradley Wright-Phillips during an 11-game goal drought might have seriously undermined a weaker character but bolstered by the heartening support of management, teammates and supporters, the slim marksman soldiered through the growing pressure, kept his head and turned it around. Form, they say, is temporary, while class is permanent. His scoreless slump was ended when notching Charlton’s second goal in the 2-0 win over Stevenage on February 25th, since when five more goals, including a career-first hat-trick at Chesterfield, have rippled the net in as many games.

Wright-Phillips’ 20th goal of the season was the work of a confident, back-in-the-groove player, on whose finishing skills the Addicks will be heavily dependent down the promotion home stretch. The approach play wasn’t bad, either, a sharp give-and-go between Scott Wagstaff and Yann Kermorgant tearing holes in United’s left flank. Wagstaff emerged goalside of left back Jamie Reckord and provided a short pass which Wright-Phillips drove crisply inside the right post.

Off to the best of starts, the visitors looked likely to double their advantage with Rhoys Wiggins testing the reflexes of Sam Slocombe and Danny Hollands volleying narrowly over the bar after Slocombe punched out Wiggins’ cross. But their bright start was derailed by another of those errors which have recently plagued a previously impregnable defence. There was no immediate danger as Garry Thompson eluded Wiggins to drill in a low centre which was destined for Ben Hamer’s hands until Michael Morrison ignored his keeper’s loud call and intervened to needlessly return the ball to the winger’s feet. Caught on the back foot, Wiggins pursued Thompson along the byline before chopping him down at the near post. Mammoth journeyman Jon Parkin made short work of converting the penalty.

Pegged back after 21 promising minutes, the wind had effectively been taken from the Addicks’ sails. The initiative was seized by the Iron, who pushed the league leaders back and with wide men Thompson and Andy Barcham prominent, dominated possession. Thompson set up Parkin to shoot wide of the left post, before Wiggins heroically blocked Thompson’s vicious volley. In the throes of a busy afternoon, Wiggins somehow turned a miscued shot from Thompson into the hands of a startled Hamer.

With Scunthorpe in complete charge, Mark Duffy cut in from the right; his cross cleared Damien Mozika’s head but Parkin half-volleyed wastefully over the bar. Charlton were at sixes and sevens again when Barcham ran at the heart of their defence, left Morrison and Matt Taylor in a slipping, sliding mess and shot low for the left corner; at full length, Hamer saved brilliantly. Barcham tried again with a cleverly curled effort but Hamer stood firm again. Surprisingly nimble for his hulking size, Parkin then dribbled through but was hustled into prodding wide under concerted pressure.

The best chance of the second half, ironically, fell to the beleaguered Addicks. Kermorgant leapt prodigiously at the far post to nod down to Wagstaff, unmarked no more than six yards out, but the over-eager wide man clumsily scuffed the chance into Slocombe’s waiting hands.

As news filtered through that second-placed Sheffield United were having problems of their own with Tranmere Rovers, a dogged draw became a valuable result, one which left Charlton still clinging to their nine-point lead at the top. That cold statistic will comfort increasingly careworn manager Chris Powell – plus satisfaction at least that his decision to prefer Darrel Russell’s selfless industry over Dale Stephens’ more cerebral talents was vindicated by the replacement’s energetic contribution. Russell was undoubtedly favoured by this course and distance, a consideration shrewdly recognised by Charlton’s rookie gaffer. He’ll need to hold his nerve as the finishing line approaches. Somehow you feel he will.

Scunthorpe: Slocombe, Byrne, Mirfin, Reid, Reckord, Thompson (Robertson 69), Mozika, Walker, Barcham, Duffy, Parkin. Not used: Lillis, Nolan, O’Connor, Ryan.

Charlton: Hamer, Solly, Morrison, Taylor, Wiggins, Wagstaff, Hollands, Russell, Jackson (Green 84), Kermorgant, Wright-Phillips. Not used: Sullivan, Stephens, Pritchard, Cort.

Referee: Robert Lewis. Attendance: 4,544.

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