Lincoln City 2-1 Charlton Athletic: Match Stats & Views From The Forum

Views from Luke Imp following the 2-1 win at home against Charlton Athletic in League One: “Well worthy of the three points today, only one team were intent on attacking and winning the game and it wasn’t Charlton. Made a difference having Walsh and McGrandles back in. Didn’t quite knit up front in the first half but we didn’t play with a striker so perhaps it took a while to get used to it.

Maguire was excellent. He started up front but got deeper and wider as the game went on, Robson had a very good game at LB, probably aided by Walsh being back in there. McGrandles was everywhere, Walsh balances the CB pairing off being left-footed. Montsma had his eye in with the switches of play (how often did Gunter get caught out with those?!), no one seemed to spot Sorenson’s runs until he was offside. Fiorini lost the ball more than he’d have liked, Scully worked hard and had a few half sniffs without being able to get shots away and Bishop was tidy enough.

Arter was lucky to stay on the pitch as well for what looked like a stonewall second yellow card. I don’t think their number 20 touched the ball until 15 minutes to go and he passed it straight to our player! Left-sided CB was decent, though.

Charlton weren’t particularly unorganised, but had no idea what to do with the ball. Very slow tempo, no obvious patterns of play and were definitely happy with a point. Don’t think Griffiths even had a save to make? Their only two attempts today was the header that lead to the goal?

You can see what we’re trying to do, the patterns of play and movements are there to see and without going over old ground, we’re obviously in need of a little more in attacking areas, especially a bit of pace to be able to play those balls in between the CB and full backs as we like to do but up to that point, it was nice and tidy. If we can keep doing that, and improving, we’ll keep picking up points and fingers crossed we can do some early business in January to solve those issues.”

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More views from our Match Thread:

hulloutpost: “1) We decidedly challenged the midfield area, higher up the pitch more aggressively.

2) Possibly because of 1, we noticeably had more players in forward positions when we were in possession including (consistently) two to four in the opposition box during open play. I can’t remember the last time we had numbers like that getting into the box.

3) We started the game like the home side trying to make something happen, rather than waiting or hoping it would.

4) Whether it was the break, the return of experienced players, combination of, or something else entirely; we looked a far more balanced and comfortable side.

Finally 5) Charlton were complete gash. Having (only) watched then for 90 minutes I have absolutely no idea what their game plan was, what they were trying to achieve or how they intended to go about it. Were they trying to play football, go direct, counter attack – I have no idea. They were the epitome of bland pointlessness.”

imps_joe: “A well deserved win in the end and some much better performances. Oh I do love a last minute winner to get the bank roaring.

Would have been disappointing not to win that because Charlton were dreadful. Easily the worst team I’ve seen us play this year. They created nothing from open play and some of thier passing at times was very poor. No idea what their game plan was beyond smashing it long which Montsma and Walsh defended with ease. We still look shaky with balls into the box and the dending for thier goal was shambolic, but it did feel more solid.

We played some neat football and played the diagonal ball very well and regularly (can’t believe that Charlton didn’t pick up on it). Though the crossing/ final third wasn’t at its best it was still a slight improvement on recent showings. Had we nailed that, we could have scored a few more because Charlton really were there for the taking.

Great to have Walsh back in the team, there was one tackle in the first half which was just sublime. Not only can he defend well but he brings the ball out well from the back. Maguire was the player I hoped he was going to be when we signed him. Hungry for the ball, picking up pockets of space, and a mesmerising first touch at times. Mcgrandles was also superb, much more like the player he was last season. He plays the holding midfielder role well and was looking to give options to the defenders. Delighted for Poole to finally get his goal.”

Sincilbanks: “Thought we looked a much more progressive team today rather than recent weeks, although it was obvious at times they hadn’t played much together with forward runs being passed to too late and sometimes missed completely. Sorenson unlucky a couple of times with such runs.

Charlton looked completely toothless all game, only gifted a goal by virtue of some poor set piece defending and otherwise they appeared to have no plan of how they might score.

Thought Robson and Walsh were excellent, Charlton went two up front second half it seemed to me and starting being much more direct but Walsh won everything that came his way regardless.

I guess if you insist on letting Monstma spray the ball out wide left all game then eventually something will happen, I didn’t quite understand why they kept letting it happen but Lewis put some beautiful balls out wide.

Sorenson had some good moments and Maguire reinforced my impression that his delivery is excellent. Bishop and Fiorini tended to disappear at times but once we had seized control of the midfield after 15 minutes or so we started to run the game.

We finally started getting the ball across the 6 yard box rather than hitting the first defender when it was out wide and duly benefitted.

Delighted for Poole when he scored, he’d struggled on again after copping a challenge but he played on the same as Plymouth and was justly rewarded for his toughness, his reaction at the end spoke volumes I thought.

Fans were fantastic, they really got behind the team and drove them forward when we were searching for a goal.

A few more performances like that and we’ll soon be cruising above any thoughts of relegation.”

Thank you to Graham Burrell and Lincoln City Football Club for the photograph!

Lincoln City 2-1 Charlton Athletic:

Match Stats & Views From The Forum:https://t.co/9134kGA48e#ImpsAsOne #CAFC

— Vital Lincoln City (@VitalLincoln) October 22, 2021

Lincoln City				Charlton Athletic
Stockley 58' (OG), Poole 90+1'				Lavelle 63'
Griffiths				MacGillivray
Poole				Gunter (c)
Robson				Souaré
Montsma				Lavelle
Walsh				Famewo
McGrandles (c)				Arter			80'
Sørensen				Leko
Fiorini				Gilbey
Maguire			90+5'	Kirk
Scully				Davison			56'
Bishop				Lee			20'
Substitutes
Long				Henderson (GK)
Bramall				Matthews
Eyoma				Pearce
Jackson				Taylor			20'
Adelakun			88'	Watson			80'
Sanders				Stockley			56'
N'Lundulu			90+5'	Washington

Game Statistics
12	Goal attempts	5
5	On Target	2
10	Corners	3
10	Fouls	8
1	Yellow Cards	4
0	Red Cards	0
59	%	41