Saturday 13 August 2011

Notts County 1 v Charlton Athletic 2

I am on the train back from Nottingham and posting fom a phone, so persevere. A thoroughly solid performance today keeps us top and sets us up for Tuesday's trip to Colchester. Come what may, next Saturday's home game against Scunthorpe is already a more attractive fixture than we might have expected.


The same starting eleven as last week went for it from the whistle and it was only really a question of when, not if. The breakthrough was simple enough. A ball through on the right flank beat the offside and Waggy skated in. He steered the ball wide of Burch before clipping home as BWP closed in on goal. The second came before the break and was similar. Wright-Phllips beat the trap on the right and crossed for Paul Hayes to notch his first Addicks goal.


There really was no County threat and I was surprised that Lee Hughes hadn't started. I was told after the game by County fans that he suffered from the Benz on a diving holiday and is making a gradual recovery. He did start the second-half and they looked better for it. Irrespective, we should have wrapped it within the hour but were a touch too casual and then County pulled one back from a poorly defended corner. Set pieces look to be a problem.


After that we steadied the ship and should have had the third when BWP was sent clear but he chose to shoot when Johnnie Jackson was on acres of space to his right. Not to worry because we saw the game out after that.


There was a post-whistle altercation involving about s dozen players apparently because Jason Euell took exception to the final ball being lashed into the Charlton fans at at death.


Top of the league after two games. Time we put Colchester in their place.

4 comments:

  1. Glad to see that we continued from where we left of last week.

    Great tweet from Euell saying that him and Hollands took umbrage to ball being kicked at our fans - "me and Dsnny H not having it"

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  2. CA - Hollands got booked though!

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  3. Dave, hope you weren't driving as you posted this- though of course I'd applaud your ability to multi- task.
    M.

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  4. Marco - ooh no, I have had my fill of driving convictions. First Class on the train :)

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