For our international Chairboys,
I’ve done my best to compile a list of viewing services for the upcoming match. However, I wasn’t able to verify all of them this time, as I couldn’t find the usual PDF on the EFL website. Please double-check your local broadcaster before kick-off!
After losing the last match 0-4, Dodds natural instinct will be to go for a highly defensive set up. Can he overcome the fear and try to take the game away from Charlton in the early stages. Charlton will probably come looking for us early doors, so we need to turn them around and make them think again. The old saying ‘fortune favours the brave’ was never more true than today. Get an early goal and all things are possible for us. Concede ground and possession and it’s going to be a long match.
This is exactly my fear. Even against the division’s dross his instinct is to get to half time at 0-0 and build from there.
I can’t imagine the pasting we took last time doing anything other than cementing that belief in his mind.
But that just makes Charlton’s job so much easier as they already know they have a first half where we’ll intentionally pose no threat so they can throw everything at us with virtually zero risk.
Fingers crossed he surprises us but I can see him juwt trying to keep it tight for 180 mins and hope for a set piece or opposition mistake.
He has a real challenge in that over the last few weeks we no longer look capable of shutting out teams to give us that platform, arguably we never did with either manager against the top six, so do we dig in and improve defensively or do we try something else? and will it work? Not long now until we find out.
The great thing about football is anything can happen, if what was most likely was guaranteed you’d have nobody at all going today. We are capable of moments and three wins changes everything. The suns out, should be a lovely day and if we get walloped at least that’s the end of it.
Hopefully we’ve wiped the slate clean and put the last few months behind us. Dodds and Rice aren’t anyone’s flavour of the month, but every Chairboy and Chairgirl in the ground needs to get right behind the team when we need each other most.
Whisper it, but statistically we’re pretty much as creative under Dodds as we were under Bloomfield. There are issues, but I don’t think enough has been made of our poor finishing in recent months. Here’s hoping Kone is gunning to make up for lost time this evening!
