Millwall 0 Charlton Athletic 0

“Oh, we are saying, just give us a goal”

A point. From the Den. I’ll take it. A ground we last won at in 1995, and a venue that has given us endless afternoons and evenings of heartache, and the last place in the world we wanted to go after the week the club had just experienced.

So, a positive point and another Ben Hamer clean sheet with Diego Poyet a stand out, but where an earth is the next goal coming from?

Charlton are the lowest goalscorers in The Championship and the five divisions immediately below them. Powell struggled to find an answer and Jose Rija likewise. If Duchâtelet really doesn’t accept failure he has to give the option to Riga of adding to his squad before the loan window ends on March 24th.

So what does these last two games tell us about Jose Riga, if anything? If Dyer and Matthews picked the team on Tuesday, then Riga had to have picked it yesterday. No pressure to play a team full of Standard Liege and Újpest reserves, a re-emergence of Bradley Pritchard, who Powell was often criticised for favouring, but who in fact hadn’t started a game since the Oxford FA Cup home game and a more patient build up resulting in greater possession.

A little negative after half-time perhaps, but it was nice to see Cousins and Poyet in the centre and it was good to hear that we didn’t sit too deep in the final part of the game.

I was a little disturbed however that Riga cited that the players were struggling physically because of two games in a week. Er, check the fixtures Jose, my old son.

Finally, how not ready is Piotr Parzyszek? The only man in the whole squad that has a record of scoring goals this season, but so far Riga appears to feel the same about Polish Pete that Powell did.

Off the bottom, we go again on Tuesday.

Addick Bloggers at The Den: Charlton Casualty; Chris Powell’s Flat Cap