I can't stay away, I'm an Addick...

[Deisler26]

GAME 3

Good to get back to winning ways. We opened the scoring on 32 minutes when Joel Grant got himself in front of the ball and headed the ball out to Isi who thumped a 20 yard shot past Timmy Chocolate Wrists in goal. That was it for the first half, but with just 10 minutes gone of the second half, we doubled the lead when Harvey Elliott intercepted a wayward crossfield ball and hared off towards goal. As he entered the area, he looked up and knocked the ball wide of the keeper into the goal. The third goal was a thing of beauty. Joao Victor picked the ball in the middle of the Barnsley half and played a slide rule pass into the path of Harvey Elliott. Elliott then played a beautifully weighted first-time pass to Thierry Ambrose who coolly and calmly passed the ball into the net. We gilded the lily just two minutes from time, when Matty Foulds' cross was headed home by Connor McCarthy on his return from injury.

[Deisler26]

CARABAO CUP SECOND ROUND

This was far far far closer than it needed to be. We ended up giving a few injury returnees a run out and the backups, but we weren't at our best and it went to penalties.

[Deisler26]

GAME 4

Out the blocks quick and managing to make it stick! At the start of the game, a long ball down the left flank found a marauding Matty Foulds who slung a hanging cross into the box for Harvey Elliott to head home. Elliott turned provider on 14 minutes, sending over a free-kick from the right hand side towards the far post, which was met by a Sotirios Papagiannopoulos header for his first goal for Charlton.

[Deisler26]

GAME 5

What a result against one of my IRL most hated teams!!! We opened the scoring just a few minutes into the game. A turn and cross by Callum Webber was met by a thundering header from Joao Victor, which crashed down off the crossbar and in for his first goal in English football. Just before 10 minutes had passed, we'd doubled the lead. Kasim Aidoo got to the byline and chipped across the goal, only to find Stephy Mavididi free to head the ball into a gaping net. We were cutting through them at will and just past the half hour mark, we scored again. Pilkington's ball out to the left found Callum Webber and he turned into Cristiano Ronaldo, cutting inside the defender and thrashing a dipping shot past the keeper for our third. Webber turned provider five minutes later, crossing for Stephy Mavididi in a carbon-copy of his first goal. Amazingly enough, we STILL weren't finished and Mavididi turned provider this time, slaloming through the defence to set up Connor McCarthy to roll the ball wide of the keeper into the net to put us up 5-0 at half time! Barely ten minutes into the second half, Stephy Mavididi had his hat-trick. Rolling the defender after Joao Victor's great pass, he powered into the area and finished strongly past the keeper. We still had time to score one final goal on 72 minutes. A deep free kick from Pilkington saw the goalie come for and fail to get the ball. All that was left was for Joao Victor to volley the fumbled ball into the net. 

Standings

Edited August 15, 2020 by Deisler26

[Deisler26]

GAME 6

A good, if unconvincing win. Good interplay and pressure around the Boro box led to Harvey Elliott driving a low ball across the face of the goal for Thierry Ambrose to tap home for the only goal of the game. However, we should have doubled our lead in added time at the end of the game as Ambrose seized on a suicidaly short backpass, rounded the keeper and put it wide. Jesus wept.

Standings

 

I gave myself a mark on my head from facepalming so hard...

Edited August 16, 2020 by Deisler26

[Stuniverse]

Just caught up on this save, @Deisler26, and I’m loving it. I thought you were going to win promotion last season with the start you made to the season... but it wasn’t to be. Like someone else said, the Addicks were very unfortunate to miss out on automatics with that points tally.

Good to see you top again after six games, but I won’t say any more in case I jinx it.

Only a suggestion, hope you don’t mind, but instead of screenshotting only Charlton’s league placings, would it be possible to screenshot including the teams around you? I’d like to see how close you are to the other teams in the promotion race and who your main competition is.

Many thanks. Good luck 🍀 for the rest of the season.

Edited August 16, 2020 by Stuniverse

[Deisler26]

7 hours ago, Stuniverse said:

Just caught up on this save, @Deisler26, and I’m loving it. I thought you were going to win promotion last season with the start you made to the season... but it wasn’t to be. Like someone else said, the Addicks were very unfortunate to miss out on automatics with that points tally.

Good to see you top again after six games, but I won’t say any more in case I jinx it.

Only a suggestion, hope you don’t mind, but instead of screenshotting only Charlton’s league placings, would it be possible to screenshot including the teams around you? I’d like to see how close you are to the other teams in the promotion race and who your main competition is.

Many thanks. Good luck 🍀 for the rest of the season.

Thanks man! If the placings thing is what the public desires, I shall do it! I'll go above and below.

[Deisler26]

TRANSFER NEWS - AUG 2022

I forgot to mention our outgoings this season!

 Erhun only scored bangers, but his game time was limited for his wages so he was sold to Valenciennes FC for £250k

 Alfie was a mainstay of my first season, but he became superceded by better left backs and was allowed to leave for Portsmouth in a £400k deal

 Lyle was my top scorer, but after his penalty miss denied us promotion, I wanted him and his £17k contract out. Nottingham Forest took him on a free transfer as I couldn't sell him.

 Mohamed was talented, but never showed it in more than flashes here. After lighting up Cyprus on loan, I couldn't say no to SV Werder Bremen and a club-record £20m deal.

[Deisler26]

CARABAO CUP THIRD ROUND

After being drawn against Arsenal in the Carabao Cup for the third time in four years, we did what we always do and played the kids. Joao Victor was sent off for a second bookable offence on 38 minutes.

 

[Deisler26]

GAME 7

An easy win against the bottom club, even at this early stage. An early red for a bad tackle put them under the cosh and coming up to half hour gone in the match saw us take the lead. Morgan's ball to the right hand side of the box found Elliott in acres of space. He then rolled a first time pass into the path of Thierry Ambrose who finished well under the keeper. Ambrose turned provider just a few minutes later, his run into the left hand channel was unchecked and his pass inside found Isi who fired into the far corner, helped one the way by the goalie having chocolate wrists. Finishing the first half strongly at 2-0, we only managed to get one more in the second half. A Harvey Elliott cross found the head of Thierry Ambrose and he powered a header home to seal the win.

Standings

Edited August 17, 2020 by Deisler26

[Deisler26]

GAME 7

Whisper it slowly, but I think we're finally treating lower teams like they need to be treated. A cutback cross from the right landed at the feet of Callum Webber. As he moved back towards the right, the whole defence shifted with him, allowing him to turn and play in Kasim Aidoo who had time and space to place his shot into the far corner. We doubled our lead just after the half hour mark as Joao Victor curled a 20 yard free kick into the top corner, beating the keeper all ends up. We conceded at the death in the first half, but rode the game out as needed.

Standings

[Deisler26]

TRANSFER NEWS

I've been tracking this kid since he came into the league, but I didn't really want to buy him this early, not with Isi and Callum Webber in such sterling form. However, Borussia Monchengladbach forced my hand. They came in with a £2.3m bid, but I had to beat that to top Bundesliga interest. A £3m bid and he was ours.

Edited August 16, 2020 by Deisler26

[Deisler26]

GAME 9

Another bottom-feeder thrown to the lions. I'm liking this team. Sotirios Papagiannopoulos volleyed home almost on the line from an Ambrose header back across goal to open the scoring on 7 minutes. On 25 minutes, Harvey Elliott raced towards the Wigan goal. He played a 1-2 with Thierry Ambrose and then finished low into the far corner under the keeper, who seemed to go down in stages. Isi sealed the deal five minutes after the break, heading home over the defender from a deep Elliott cross.

Standings

Edited August 17, 2020 by Deisler26

[Deisler26]

GAME 10

Wednesday defended well, we had no cutting edge.

Standings

Best start of them all so far!

 - 2021\22

 - 2020/21

 - 2019/20

[Deisler26]

GAME 11

Another brilliant performance saw us put Brum to the sword with help from their keeper. It took just 3 minutes to open the scoring as Connor McCarthy headed home from a Labyad cross, but that was the only action for the first half. We doubled our lead around quarter of an hour into the second half when Stephy Mavididi jockeyed the opposing centre-back and then fired inside the near post, with the keeper barely reacting to it. Unusual, but I figured he was blocked from seeing the shot by the defender. Just 12 minutes later, however, a cross from the left was flicked on by the defender, taking it off the head of Mavididi. The ball came out to substitute Jeremy Pilkington, on in place of the right back, who steadied himself and fired just inside the near post for his first goal for the club with the keeper's positioning suspect again! Just past the 80 minute mark, we increased our lead even more! A corner from the right hand side was headed home for his first goal for the club by Vicente Rafael Blanco. That looked enough, but we weren't finished. A burst down the right, whipping past the full back and Connor McCarthy then cut in on the byline and then rolled the ball past the keeper inside the near post AGAIN.

Standings

[Deisler26]

GAME 12

This game went to pieces in the second half. We'd opened the scoring on 6 minutes. A lightning-quick counter saw Callum Webber beat the defender for sheer pace, reach the byline and then cut the ball back for the late-arriving Joao Victor to sidefoot home. We were playing well and Callum Webber doubled the lead on 42 minutes, controlling the ball and firing home into the far corner after a Mavididi flick on from a cross. Half time came and we were comfortable. However, we had a third goal struck off by the linesman for a dubious offside a few minutes into the second half. Callum Webber then saw red for a second bookable offence. We then had ANOTHER goal ruled out on 75 minutes due to a badly applied offside. A 25 yard howitzer beat the keeper, but was called off because someone was offside, yet not interfearing with play..???... We then conceded two identical goals to the same player. A corner would come in, we'd panic, clear the ball into one of our own players and the ball would fall to the Reading player with an empty net. FFS.

Standings

[Deisler26]

I had to let off steam after that shocker of a result.

[Deisler26]

INTERESTING STAT!

Same appareances, one goal less.

[Deisler26]

GAME 13

Second place is the first loser. And that's still WBA in this one. Identical goals, 7 minutes apart, gave us the win. A cross from the right hand side was flicked on by Thierry Ambrose for Isi to side foot into the net. 

Standings

[Stuniverse]

Great start to the season this time, @Deisler26. That win over WBA was a big one and knocked them out of the top two.

[Deisler26]

GAME 14

Another good win. We took the lead just before half-time as Stephy Mavididi intercepted a hospital ball to a defender on the half way line, skipped past the last defender and headed for goal. He slowed up long enough to lure the goalkeeper out and then slid it past him into the net. We finished the game off on 60 minutes when good passing in the middle led to a ball out wide to Kasim Aidoo. He had the freedom of Bristol to line up a cross which Stephy Mavididi headed home to double his tally.

Standings

[Deisler26]

21 hours ago, Stuniverse said:

Great start to the season this time, @Deisler26. That win over WBA was a big one and knocked them out of the top two.

Thanks man! Let's hope we can avoid a wobble.

[Deisler26]

CONTRACT NEWS

[Deisler26]

GAME 15

The hype train rolls on. We opened the scoring on 19 minutes when Harvey Elliott jinked his way into the area and sent a hanging cross for Isi to nod past the flailing keeper. Isi turned provider for the second goal, ghosting past two defenders before firing in a low shot. The keeper gave up the rebound to Ambrose who squared it for Albie Morgan to tap into an empty net. Deep into first half added time, Elliott was sent tumbling in the box and Thierry Ambrose calmly sent the keeper the wrong way to score the third and final goal for us.

Standings

 

[Deisler26]

GAME 16

Absolutely battered Derby, but couldn't score. 

Standings

 

[Deisler26]

GAME 17

Awful. We've only let the opposition had 5 shots in total in two games, but we've not been able to capitalise. I saw the signs for this game in the first 6 minutes as we hit the woodwork twice with our first two shots.

Standings

 

[Deisler26]

GAME 18

This is winding me up now. We scored our first goal in over 200 minutes of football when on 25 minutes, Harvey Elliott danced past two defenders to the byline and cut the ball back for Jake Forster-Caskey to place the ball into the far corner. But we conceded a point blank header on 95 minutes to leave us with 3 points from 9.

Standings

 

Edited August 19, 2020 by Deisler26

[Deisler26]

GAME 19

AAAAARRRGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! We were 5 first team players down, but we took the lead on 14 minutes, when some intricate play down the left down Joao Victor on the edge of the area. He took a touch and slammed the ball high into the far corner of the net. But we conceded to a desperate toe poke, then lost Joao Victor to injury after we'd made all three subs. Utd then punished us in the 94th minute with a really good individual goal. No win in 4. F**k.

Standings

 

[Deisler26]

GAME 20

First super keeper I've seen this season. He was brilliant, saving a Thierry Ambrose penalty on 73 minutes (which saw Ambrose subbed straight after) and pretty much being a wall. We opened the scoring early on with Sotirios Papagiannopoulos heading home from a deep free-kick, but once again, we couldn't hold onto a lead. That dominant early season form looks like a distant memory.

Standings

Still our best ever performance over 20 games and *should* see us top at the halfway point. 

[Wavelberry]

Win a game will ya?

Charlton fans have seen this before though. The fanbase are already resigning themselves to the play-offs.

[Fudal]

4 hours ago, Wavelberry said:

Win a game will ya?

Charlton fans have seen this before though. The fanbase are already resigning themselves to the play-offs.

So are we 

[Deisler26]

18 hours ago, Wavelberry said:

Win a game will ya?

Charlton fans have seen this before though. The fanbase are already resigning themselves to the play-offs.

It's just annoying me to be honest. We've got the talent, but we just cant put teams away!

[Deisler26]

13 hours ago, Fudal said:

So are we 

You're currently fifth this season

[Deisler26]

GAME 21

Finally back to winning ways! We took the lead on 6 minutes, Connor McCarthy's seeing eye ball across the box found Isi getting there a second before the defender to toe-poke a trickling ball past the keeper. We doubled our lead a minute before half time as Jeremy Pilkington curled a 25 yard free-kick past the keeper. The second half was simple, and we put the tin hat on it deep into added-on time. Connor McCarthy on the touchline, cut in and laid the ball back to Casey Willis who absolutely thumped the ball past the keeper to score his first ever goal for the club.

Standings

[Deisler26]

2023 Youth Intake Preview

Ooh. Some nice strikers and a keeper. Love it!

[DaneBramage]

Looking good at the half way stage. Just make sure you stay ahead of Huddersfield, any team with just 19 goals in 21 games doesn't deserve to be anywhere near the top.

[Deisler26]

GAME 22

Urrrrghhh. F**k's sake. We played like crap. Our lone goal was courtesy of a chipped pass by Jake Forster-Caskey finding Kieran Dowell in acres of space to smash the ball past the keeper.

Standings

[Deisler26]

THE EMIRATES FA CUP THIRD ROUND

FFS. We're losing ground now. The Forest keeper came for a corner on 17 minutes and made a pig's ear of it. The ball came out and Sotirios Papagiannopoulos volleyed home into an empty net. We then collapsed defensively to concede the equaliser. We couldn't force a way through and the game went to penalties. And it was Jeremy Pilkington who missed the vital penalty, smashing the ball against the post to put us out.

[Deisler26]

GAME 23

3-0 up in the first 25 mins. Threw it away. . We opened the scoring after only two minutes when debutant Markko Viljala twisted and turned a defender on the edge of the area who was attempting to shepherd him out of the penalty box. Creating space, he dinked a ball into the open space in front of the keeper for Stephy Mavididi to head home via the post. Ten minutes later, a cross into the box was headed home into the far corner by academy product Joel Grant, to score his first senior goal for the club. We went even further ahead on 25 minutes when a swirling free-kick from Jeremy Pilkington was met by the head of Stephy Mavididi who nodded home past the Brum keeper. But we then decided to collapse defensively and went from 3-0 to 3-3. A shocker.

Standings

[Deisler26]

GAME 24

We battered them. But couldn't find a way through. The City keeper got MOTM. Says it all.

Standings

[Deisler26]

CONTRACT NEWS

Good news! It's one of our weakest positions, but we need him to continue until we can supplant him.

[Deisler26]

GAME 25

We're up to one win in 10 now. A long raking ball from the full back Aidoo found Stephy Mavididi about 25 yards out. He controlled the ball, took a few steps and thundered the ball past the keeper to give us the lead just before half time. Getting tired of us dominating games and not being able to score and it's meant we've lost top spot.

Standings

[Deisler26]

GAME 26

This goddamn team. We've struggled for so long, yet we just dismantled the league leaders. Early on, a swirling free-kick from the byline by Elliott was put on Stephy Mavididi's head and he beat the keeper at the far post. Just past the twenty minute mark, a cross-field ball from Sarpong-Wiredu found Kieran Dowell, who controlled the ball, looked up and stroked a lovely 20 yard curling shot past the keeper. Just three minutes after that, we put the tin hat on it as a long ball down the left-hand channel found Isi and his drifting pull-back was acrobatically volleyed home by Stephy Mavididi. Game. Set. And Match.

Standings

Edited August 26, 2020 by Deisler26

[Deisler26]

GAME 27

Two wins in a row! All guns blazing too! We took the lead with just 8 minutes gone, a central free-kick by Joao Victor, thrown into the mixer, was bulleted home by a Thierry Ambrose header. We then doubled the lead midway through the first half as good movement of the ball from the right wing to the middle found Joel Grant, who delivered an inch-perfect through ball for Callum Webber to drive home under the keeper. We then put the game out of sight in three second half minutes. First, on 64 minutes, Kasim Aidoo was given the freedom of Wales on the edge of the area to connect with a Joel Grant cross and thunder a 20 yard volley home. Then, just three minutes later, a cross from Webber found Joel Grant on the edge of the area. Playing a one-two with Mavididi, he created enough space to fire home to put us four goals to the good. The icing on the cake, the salt in the wound came just before 90 minutes when some crisp one-touch passing found a rampaging Kasim Aidoo free on the left hand side of the area. He made no mistake, lifting the ball over the advancing keeper to send the away fans into dreamland

Standings

[Stuniverse]

What an up and down season! Your Charlton team either score goals for fun or fire blanks. Great win against Huddersfield which seems to have given your Addicks momentum again.

Edited August 27, 2020 by Stuniverse

[Deisler26]

1 hour ago, Stuniverse said:

What an up and down season! Your Charlton team either score goals for fun or fire blanks. Great win against Huddersfield which seems to have given your Addicks momentum again.

Thanks man! It's incredible that we had one win in 10 and STILL stayed in the top two!!

[Constantine]

Honestly scared to post in this thread anymore because since i did last time, everything went to **** real quick

But this seems like your year, even i can't jinx it...

[Deisler26]

GAME 28

Out the traps quickly again! With just 4 minutes gone, a ball from Willis found Elliott on the halfway line. He ran at the heart of the defence, before rolling a beautifully weighted ball into the path of Stephy Mavididi, who lashed the ball high past the keeper. Just 4 minutes into the second half, we doubled our lead when an infield pass from the right found Dowell on the edge of the area. He laid the ball off to Joel Grant who looked up and curled the ball past the keeper and inside the post from 20 yards. A nice time to score our third was on 69 minutes. A deep free-kick from the halfway line found the head of Sotiris Papagiannopoulos. His header looked goalbound, but savable. However, a Fleetwood defender blocked the header and this stranded the keeper and allowed 'Papa' to toe-poke into an empty net.

Standings

[Deisler26]

7 hours ago, Constantine said:

Honestly scared to post in this thread anymore because since i did last time, everything went to **** real quick

But this seems like your year, even i can't jinx it...

I'm truly not sure. It's proper tight down to 6th. 

[Deisler26]

GAME 29

Seems like our scoring issues are well behind us. The game was over in 20 minutes. Stephy Mavididi headed home from an Elliott corner to open the scoring after just two minutes. After just five minutes, we doubled the lead, Kieran Dowell getting a second bite at the cherry after his first shot was blocked, but he made no mistake on the rebound.  Despite conceding an absolute thunderbastard from Wednesday, we restored the two-goal cushion just before the 20 minute mark. Sotirios Papagiannopoulos smashing home after the ball dropped to him from a bunfight in the area after a corner. Less than 10 minutes into the second half, we poured salt into the wound when lovely intricate play saw Mavididi played though and although the keeper was equal to his shot, it was spilled out to Isi who tapped home. We topped the result off with some really tenacious play on the byline by Elliott which was finished with aplomb by Joel Grant.

Standings