Injury worries grow

Lloyd Jones had to be taken off at half time yesterday as a precaution as he rolled his ankle at the weekend.   He is unlikely to be available for Saturday's derby at Millwall.

Shell shocked supremo Nathan Jones says that the Josh Edwards injury is far worse than feared, news he described as 'catastrophic'.

Harvey Knibbs has not broken anything, but he has damaged his ankle ligaments and will be out for some time.

The latest line by Jones critics is that he does not know his best team, but it is no easy task to pick a best team from a thin squad.

As for those who call for the owners to show 'ambition', I am not spending any of my money on new players and I doubt whether other supporters are.

One piece of good news is that the new football regulator is going to focus on parachute payments as his first target.   They have such a distorting effect on the Championship.

Time added on heartbreak

After Charlton equalised on 96 minutes at Portsmouth tonight, the home side scored a winning goal on 98 minutes, The Addicks are now 20th in the table.

Pompey took the lead after 69 minutes through Conor Shaughnessy but Charlton equalised in the sixth minute of time added on through Harvey Knibbs.

However, as the stoppage-time clock moved on to eight, Yang shot right footed from the centre of the box into the bottom left corner to win the game.

The victory was Portsmouth's sixth league win of the season, and extended their unbeaten run to four matches.

The home side failed to register a single shot on target in a poor quality first half from both teams.

Charlton did manage to test Pompey keeper Nicolas Schmid with a couple of shots from Charlie Kelman.

Schmid was then forced into a brilliant save in the top left hand corner from Charlton's Reece Burke as the Addicks started the second period strongly.

Portsmouth went close with a shot from Devlin saved by Thomas Kaminski, and full-back Zak Swanson shot just over the bar.

Then came the key triple change on 64 minutes from Pompey manager John Mousinho, including Shaughnessy for his first appearance since a hamstring injury in September. He headed home from close range from an Adrian Segecic cross.

Charlton had chances to equalise with Joe Rankin-Costello and Tyreece Campbell both shooting wide, before stoppage time when a Charlton corner was nodded on by Miles Leaburn, finding the head of sub Knibbs who finished into the top left corner.

Despite the clock ticking over into the 98th minute, referee Paul Tierney allowed the home side to take the kick-off. The ball was played into the Charlton box, and sub Yang netted the winner.

Charlton have now won only two of their 13 away games this season.

Supremo: naive and crazy

Shell shocked supremo Nathan Jones told Richard Cawley: “Having got back into the game, to concede in the manner we did - 90+8 - is just so naive and crazy. It shouldn't go in - he (Thomas Kaminski) has to save it."

“A point would've been the least we deserved. The level of performance was really good. We've come to a difficult place, we silenced the crowd - they didn't get up at any point. "We're really disappointed with both goals. A lack of concentration - a free header from six or seven yards - we're normally very good at that."

Social media commentary has been less hostile to Nathan Jones than I anticipated.

My step grandson, a Blue, has just popped in and his verdict is: 'That 's a nightmare, that's crazy.'

Defeat to league leaders

Charlton were defeated 3-1 by runaway league leaders at the CBS Arena this afternoon   Charlton took the michael by scoring an opening goal through Harvey Knibbs, but two home goals just before half time more or less sealed the result.

The Sky Blues have scored three goals in ten games this season

A sold out away end braved some wet Warwickshire weather to demonstrate their Addicktion.

After their opening goal the Addicks rose to 10th in the as it stands table, but ended up 17th.

Harvey Knibbs gave the visitors a surprise lead at the CBS Arena when he turned in Tyreece Campbell's deflected shot from six yards.

But the Sky Blues put themselves in front with two goals just before half-time as Josh Eccles scored from outside the box and Ellis Simms glanced in a header from a corner.

Charlton pushed for a leveller after the break before Simms poked in Coventry's 50th league goal of the season to seal victory.

Coventry have now won 11 of their past 12 matches and only lost once in the league all season.

Shell shocked supremo Nathan Jones told BBC Radio London: "I'm really disappointed with the manner of the goals (conceded) but the level of the performance I'm relatively happy.

"First half we had the majority of the chances - with a little bit more better decision making we'd have gone in further ahead.

"It's been tough week, Southampton, Stoke away and then the leaders away, especially when we're stretched as we are but I'm proud of the applicaiton.

"Now we have to go into December and stem the tide and come out of December in a significantly better position than we are now."

Three points, clean sheet

A time added on goal by Harvey Knibbs gave Charlton a 1-0 opening win in the Championship at The Valley this afternoon.

It was a frenetic final few minutes with Watford feeling they should have had a penalty when Thomas Kaminski crumpled Nestory Irankunda.

But on balance, Charlton carved out the better of the chances and could have won by a larger margin had the cards fallen more kindly.   Watford’s keeper made three excellent saves.

Both managers will no doubt have words to say about penalty shouts with Charlton's Josh Edwards having a big shout when coming together with Jeremy Ngakia earlier in the second half.

A corner on the left is slung to the back post by Conor Coventry and Lloyd Jones does enough to get the ball back into the mixer where substitute Harvey Knibbs hammered home from six yards out.

Towards the end of the second half, Robert Apter picked up the ball on the right front edge and dances across just outside the 18 yard area looking for an opening.   He has a go but his curling effort from 20 yards just fizzed over the upright.

Charlton looked defensively very solid, although crosses sometimes posed a challenge.