S25/26 | The Official Match Thread | Charlton 1 Swansea 1 | Att: 20,405 (2,227Jacks) | 01/11/25 | The EFL Championship | The Valley

[Bob]

I agree, particularly away, it keeps us pretty tight at the back, and allows Tymon and Key to cause lots of problems going forward. I thought Key had a really good game today, apart from his horror miss at the end, which probably cost us two points. Get your feckin knee over the ball, sunshine!

We’ve tried a back 5 many time since relegation and it has never worked. It sounds a great system but it inevitably becomes defensive, negative and has always stultified attacking intent. After a few miserable games of trying it out again, we’ll turn back to 4 at the back as has always happened.

 

[cadleigh]

I have to disagree, 80% of our game was hopeless long balls that came straight back at us from a similar side who were ill equipped to play any kind of passing game. I haven't seen the ball spend so much time in the air than old style Stoke vs Cardiff City

That’s not exactly how I recall it. Yes, we did do a lot of long balls to the wingers, but many of them were bang on target. When we were beaten to the ball by Charlton they usually headed it away and that invariably began a round of aerial ping pong. Any thoughts on why Sheehan adopted that long passing strategy? It’s not like Franco and Galbraith were overwhelmed in midfield.

 

[jackharris]

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