When Mark Marshall and Billy Clarke swapped West Yorkshire for South London this summer, the former was tipped to be more important to Charlton Athletic’s promotion hopes. In fact, Marshall has only played 37 minutes of football due to injury, while Clarke has only missed 67. Karl Robinson’s decision to drop the latter to the… Read more →
Fleetwood are one of just two League One teams yet to draw a blank this term. When we look at their performance at Plymouth last time out, it is hardly surprising. That’s not because they created lots of chances in that 2-1 win, but because they created three clear cut chances and finished two of… Read more →
Portsmouth deserved their 1-0 win at Gillingham on Sunday, which came thanks to Matty Kennedy’s second half goal. However, they were helped hugely by the clear shortcomings of their opponents. Here’s five things from the game. Gills lack of intensity There were too many times when Portsmouth had possession in the final third and Gillingham… Read more →
In a cagey afternoon of good team defending, Walsall held league leaders Shrewsbury Town to a 1-1 draw, as Stefan Payne’s first half penalty cancelled out Daniel Agyei’s opener. Here’s our player ratings from the game. Walsall Mark Gillespie – didn’t have to make a single save apart from the penalty from which Shrewsbury scored.… Read more →
In a cagey afternoon of good team defending, Walsall held league leaders Shrewsbury Town to a 1-1 draw, as Stefan Payne’s first half penalty cancelled out Daniel Agyei’s opener. Here’s seven talking points from the match. Agyei’s brawn Walsall were the more prominent side early on, often attempting early balls down the left channel for… Read more →
Jack Payne was a little unlucky not to get more game-time in the Championship with Huddersfield, but he has once again shown his class at this level with Oxford United. The ex-Southend number 10 excels at finding pockets of space in front of the defence to create openings. Although he didn’t score at Peterborough last week,… Read more →
Put simply, this match pitted one team that always wanted to attack and another that rarely did. The former was Bristol Rovers, who won 2-1 thanks to goals from Rory Gaffney and Billy Bodin. The second half though against Plymouth Argyle, who got their goal through Nathan Blissett, was nervier than it perhaps should have… Read more →
Put simply, this match pitted one team that always wanted to attack and another that rarely did. The former was Bristol Rovers, who won 2-1 thanks to goals from Rory Gaffney and Billy Bodin. The second half though against Plymouth Argyle, who got their goal through Nathan Blissett, was nervier than it perhaps should have… Read more →
The award for Tuesday’s shock result in the EFL goes to Bury’s 3-0 win over Oxford. It felt similar to their 5-1 victory over Peterborough in January last year, in that they had been on such a bad run of form – no wins since the opening day – that no-one expected it. Until that… Read more →
Blackburn have a good squad on paper but it has taken away games against the better sides, Scunthorpe and Bradford, to drag the more dogged performances out of them. When they have played games they ‘should’ win, they have not quite matched the work rate of the opposition, as we saw on Saturday. Rovers lost… Read more →