Midfielder Yoni Buyens believes the feel-good factor around the club has been the catalyst to Charlton’s recent success.

Buyens helped himself to two more goals during Saturday’s 3-2 win over Reading at The Valley, his seventh penalty of the season followed by a first of the campaign from open play.

Pavel Pogrebnyak gave the visitors the lead just before the break, although the home side responded well, Buyens’ brace putting them ahead before former Reading man Simon Church doubled their lead.

The home fans were made to endure a nervous final few minutes after more sloppy defending allowed Pogrebyak to grab his second in injury time, but the hosts held on for the three points.

Despite the late scare, Buyens admitted he was still pleased with the recent position the team has found itself in.

He said: “The results are really great, we’ve won a lot of games recently and we’re in a good mood.

“It is really important to have confidence and I think at this moment we do.

“In football it changes really quickly.

“One good result, even one good pass, can change everything for a player.

“A goal can change everything for a striker and a clean sheet can change everything for a defender.”

Buyens added: “It is a thin line between having confidence and playing without confidence and getting across that line at times isn’t the easier thing to do.

“I think we stepped across that line really quickly a few weeks ago and we are still there.

“We have to stay there.”

The Belgian also revealed the new-found confidence has given the side belief they can still take something from each game even when falling a goal behind, something which had been missing for several months.

He explained: “Even if we are 1-0 down we still believe we can change it, because we did it against Cardiff away for example.

“We take everything from the previous games with us and we try to do it better in the games that are coming up.

“Today we started well in the first 20 minutes, although we didn’t have any real chances.

“Then we stopped playing football and they scored a goal.”

Buyens added: “At half-time we said we had the same situation in Cardiff when we only had 25 minutes left, then we started to play football and we turned the game around.

“That’s what we had to do today as well and we had 45 minutes, so why couldn’t we do it today if we did it after 25 minutes?

“I think we did it almost perfectly, except the last five or seven minutes when we gave the goal away against 10 men, but the rest of the second half I think we did very well.

“We will keep doing our work and everyone is giving 100 percent.”

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