Charlton suffered a 2-1 defeat at The Valley to Bristol City. This has meant Charlton remain in 18th and still lurking around the relegation zone.
Charlton manager Nathan Jones was not pleased with his team's performance on Saturday afternoon.
“Started both halves we were really poor and that cost us the game today.”
Jones expanded on that.
“I don’t know because we work on starting fast, really being front-footed. First 50 seconds we mess about, give a corner away and that sets the tone for the first 10 minutes.
“The we give it, albeit easy, free kicks, whether they are free kicks or not, we give them the opportunity to give five free kicks away in the attacking half and then eventually they got a goal but that’s because we started really poorly.
“The second half we started poorly, the first half gave the ball away, got done in transitions and they had opportunities.
“If you look at all of their chances, they came from us giving the ball away, we do something rash and then they get an opportunity.
“We didn’t show enough quality in the final third and some of the defending today was un-Charlton like.
Bristol City’s winner came from a goal keeping error from Will Mannion. As Scott Twine’s free kick was spilled out by the Charlton man which gifted Noah Eile a goal from close to a yard out.
“Will made four or five good saves to be fair (during the game) but he has to save it. We did a lot of work, Twine is one of the best technicians.
“First one (free kick) was blocked so we said have another go, " he said sarcastically.
Charlton have scored 37 goals this season, the third lowest in the EFL Championship this season. They have an expected goals of 40.7, second lowest in the league and 21st in the league for shots on target per game with 3.4.
When it comes to conceding, Charlton have kept the fifth most clean sheets this season with 13. So a clear indication to lack of goal scoring ability is apparent in South East London which Jones was fully aware of himself.
“The ironic thing is we have a really good defensive record, or we had a really good defensive record.
70% of our work is attacking like we work religiously on the final third, giving people freedom, structure, where we move the ball, where we hurt people.
“My teams have always scored goals.
“I was in the championship with Luton and we scored lots and lots of goals, outscored teams, kept clean sheets, were aggressive, front-footed and we’ve just come off that a little bit.”
Charlton are currently sat 18th in the Championship table on 48 points, eight points from the drop with six games to go. So there is still a chance The Addicks go down but another win should seal safety Jones’ red army.
“We want to finish as strongly as possible, but we need to get a win now. We need to get a win just to silence everything and just to be able to move forward because we’ve had enough opportunities in the last three games.
“We did enough to have got considerably more points than we have, but we keep saying the same thing.
“So somehow, someone has to be brave, someone has to take a chance, someone has to show an ounce of quality and then we need to put in a performance, one more big performance, which will do.”
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