Charlton Athletic 2 Cambridge United 0

 This was my first ever trip to the Valley and I have to say I thought that it was quite a nice stadium. The day was slightly spoiled by having to get the coach down rather than going down to London and enjoying making a day and evening of it.

Charlton and Cambridge are roughly in the same position in the league, but whereas despite a drubbing of Cheltenham in midweek Cambridge's results have been sliding whereas after a change at the top Charlton have improved.

Charlton started off the brighter of the two teams and Cambridge were made to pay for a sluggish start when ex-Posh player Connor Washington (who also featured prominently throughout the programme fired home for the Addicks on the half hour mark. It should come as no surprise for any Cambridge fan that the Us then started to really press to get in the game. The number times they fall behind before really firing on all cylinders is developing into one of the stories of the season.

For the rest of the game Cambridge seemed to be on the attack, but the Charlton defence of Clare, Pearce and Famewo were capable of dealing with anything thrown at them. They were able to keep Joe Ironside quiet throughout. Sam Smith posed them a few extra problems, but he fired wide on two occasions when on another day the back of the net would have been bulging.

In the last minute though, Charlton inevitably scored on the break and Washington had his and Charlton's second. Most Cambridge fans left leaving thinking that a draw would have been a fair result and although a lot of Charlton fans would have probably thought they were good for the win a single goal would have been a more accurate realisation of what happened in the game.








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