Huddersfield Town 2 Charlton Athletic 1

Huddersfield had our number again tonight up in West Yorkshire. It was a dull game as it approached half time but just seconds before the teams went in for their slice of orange James Vaughan headed home, which wouldn’t have pleased Chris Powell.

The first half I missed but the second half I listened to, and the commentating team seemed to be losing the will to live until the stadium burst into noise signalling a stunning goal from distance from Joe Lynch and a 2-0 lead for Terriers.

There were 25 minutes left and it took until the game being almost over for Powell to make some changes. Calum Harriott made a welcome return replacing Marvin Sordell and new signing Cameron Stewart came on for Richard Wood and we went 4-4-2.

Stewart was heavily involved and scored from 25-yards to half the deficit. Then with the clock ticking down we threw everything at them, with even Ben Hamer joining the fray, and Pigott also coming on. There was 5 minutes of added time but it was too little too late.

A disappointing result, despite the statistics telling a good story (ahead on shots, shots on target and corners) but we need to regroup before Saturday when hopefully Yann will be back. We missed him tonight.

Addick Bloggers at the John Smith’s Stadium: Ramblings of a Football Fan.
Powell-ometer: He chose Sordell over Pigott and would’ve been annoyed to concede right on half-time. He should have made his substitutions earlier though.
Elsewhere: This division was as unpredictable as ever with bottom Millwall beating top Blackpool 3-1. Leicester went top beating Blackburn 2-1, Burnley beat Birmingham well and Bournemouth won at home again, this time seeing off Barnsley. Watford got a late penalty winner to beat Doncaster and Bolton and Derby shared four goals. 2-2 was also the score at the City Ground as Forest came from 0-2 to draw with Middlesbrough and Ipswich beat Yeovil 2-1.