Ipswich must think that Charlton are their bogey team after the Addicks secured a 1-1 draw at Portman Road tonight somewhat against the run of play. Ipswich had 29 goal attempts against nine for the Addicks and only three of those for Charlton were deemed to be on target. The result was described by Sky Sports News as a lifeline for embatlled Charlton manager Alan Pardew.
Youga was back in Charlton's side with Basey not even on the bench. The favoured Varney and Todorov started up front. It was 30 minutes before Charlton got a shot in on goal, a Matt Holland effort that whistled into the stand. Then on 37 minutes Garvan predictably put the Tractors ahead. Jon Stead was booked for Ipswich on 45 minutes.
Half time: Tractors 1, Addicks 0
Weaver showed his quality early in the second half with two good saves, one from the lively Garvan. Then Ipswich keeper Richard Wright send a long clearance down field and Lisbie burst through only to put his shot wide. It was ever thus.
The turning point in the game came when Youga hand balled in the box on 56 minutes, receiving a yellow card and Ipswich were awarded a penalty, but Nicky Weaver made the save.
Semedo replaced Moutaoukil on 69 minutes whilst Bouazza replaced Sam and the tiring Todorov was replaced by Dixon on 78 minutes.
Then Charlton scored with what was their first threatening shot on target. Bouazza who had just come on put in a cross, enabling Nicky Bailey to score on 82 minutes. Cranie received a late yellow card.
Charlton remain in the 20th place they have made their own, just as they occupied 5th
place for a long spell last season, but Saturday's opponents Barnsley are on the same number of points. One worrying observation was that by the Sky Sports News commentator that Charlton's body language was all wrong.
2 comments:
We were pretty terrible last night, I think Ipswich should have been out of sight by the time we scored. There seemed to be a lot of discord from the fans as well, although most of this was forgotten in the last ten minutes when it looked as though we might take an unlikely and undeserved win. To be honest, Ipswich didn't look all that bright in the first half, and I thought that we contained them until they scored. Don't know about the body language issue, the team just looked like it had absolutely no confidence at all.
Actually, reading my comment there it doesn't make a lot of sense, but to clarify, in the second half Ipswich had so many chances to score they should have got several more goals, in the first half they didn't really create much trouble for our 'keeper as most of their efforts were long range and our defence was just about coping.
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