Andy King made a losing start as Leicester City interim boss after Charlton capitalised on Caleb Okoli's red card to ease their Championship relegation fears. It was a difficult afternoon for the club’s many moaners,
Okoli was dismissed after just 15 minutes for pulling back
Miles Leaburn, and Charlton took full advantage through Sonny Carey and Lyndon
Dykes goals to climb further away from the drop zone.
The 2-0 defeat added to the sense of misery at Leicester
after Marti Cifuentes was sacked on Sunday following their shock home loss to
Oxford.
Jordan Ayew hit the post from a second-half penalty to
compound the Foxes' woes when they threatened a comeback.
Conor Coady, written off as useless by armchair managers, impressed on his Charlton
debut as a holding midfielder against his former side following his loan move
from Wrexham, and Nathan Jones will be delighted with his side's response after
he accused them of treating last weekend's defaat by Millwall "as a
day in the sun".
The game's decisive moment came when Okoli was rightly shown
a straight red card for pulling back Leaburn when the Foxes defender was the
last man.
And after Harry Clarke had a header controversially disallowed
for a foul by Leaburn, Charlton's top scorer Carey gave them the lead in the
36th minute with his seventh goal of the season.
Clarke swung in a cross from the right and Carey lifted the
ball over Ricardo Pereira with his first touch before volleying home
left-footed with his second.
Leicester were a mess, and in the fourth minute of
first-half stoppage time, 'last ditch' Dykes steered home Luke Chambers' cross right-footed
to register his first Addicks goal since joining from Birmingham just over two
weeks ago.
Leicester rallied in the second half, but spurned a glorious
chance to haul themselves back into the game on 56 minutes when Ayew hit the
post from a penalty after Abdul Fatawu was pulled back by Amari'i Bell.
Thomas Kaminski saved a 20-yard drive from Pereira, and many
unhappy Leicester fans left the King Power Stadium before full-time.
Avatar Desmond from Deal said: ‘I was looking forward to
Charlton getting thumped and Jones getting the sack. In my view he still hasn’t a clue, but he
always manages to get lucky results when he needs them.;
Relieved supremo Nathan Jones told BBC Radio London: '“That's a massive win, the result was everything today. Last week [losing 4-0 to Millwall] was damning, it was really hurtful to the football club. One, because of who we played, two, because of the manner of it, and three, because we care.
"I'm immersed in this football club, so it hurts me
because I live and breathe this club, so I wanted to have a reaction today.
"Miles [Leaburn] was clean in and got pulled back, a
definite red. That kind of changed the complexion of the game, but I'm really
pleased because we wanted to be aggressive against them and put it on
them."
“That's a massive win, the result was everything today. Last week [losing 4-0 to Millwall] was
damning, it was really hurtful to the football club. One, because of who we
played, two, because of the manner of it, and three, because we care.
"I'm immersed in this football club, so it hurts me
because I live and breathe this club, so I wanted to have a reaction today.
"Miles [Leaburn] was clean in and got pulled back, a
definite red. That kind of changed the complexion of the game, but I'm really
pleased because we wanted to be aggressive against them and put it on
them."
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