Charlton will face Wycombe at home in the second leg of the play offs on May 15th after the Chairboys lost 1-3 at home to Stockport today. The first leg will be in beechy Bucks next Sunday evening. (The EFL has changed the date more than once). The out of form Chairboys have lost six of their last eight games. Stockport will face in form Leyton Orient.
Charlton beat Burton 3-1 as I forecast at the start of the season. A Brewers penalty gave an early scare and their fans literally went bananas as they did the conga in the Jimmy Seed.
Matt Godden scored two first half goals and Alex Mitchell made it three on 51 minutes in front of a crowd of 20,971.
The Addicks fell behind in the 13th minute, Mason Bennett
converting from the penalty spot after Fabio Tavares was brought down by
goalkeeper Ashley Maynard-Brewer.
Godden restored parity in the 24th minute, Charlton’s top
scorer finished from the right of the penalty box with Burton keeper Max
Crocombe making a bad call to stray from his line to try and reach Tennai
Watson’s through ball.
Godden doubled his tally in the 34th minute, producing a
sharp turn from Josh Edwards’ pass to beat Crocombe, who managed to get a hand
to his low left-footed shot.
Alex Mitchell, whose poor back pass had led to the early
penalty, made amends when he headed in Conor Coventry’s inswinging corner in
the 51st minute to put Charlton 3-1 ahead.
Addicks debutant Ibrahim Fullah hit the right post from Karoy Anderson’s cutback.
Just as well the play off is now on Sunday evening, as I am getting married on Friday and my eldest is having her 25th wedding anniversary party on Saturday evening.
Analysis of the game by Louis Mendez emphasises the contribution of Matt Godden who was, of course, written off as useless by moaners earlier in the season: https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/sport/the-lowdown-on-charlton-3-burton-albion-1
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