What a fantastic result tonight and a well deserved victory, It would be easy for me to say that Palace are probably the worst team to visit the Valley this season, but that would be a great injustice to a great all round Charlton performance. We simply did not let Palace play and the possession stats surely will read at least 70% to 30% in Charlton's favour. This is the third home game now that Charlton have simply overwhelmed the opposition and Weaver has hardly had a save to make. I'm not going to harp on about the Scunthorpe result but how the hell did we lose to them. Trouble is I am going to be so disappointed if we dont achieve automatic promotion now . We have the squad, we certainly have youth and skill and hindsight is a wonderful gift but losing Reid however much a great player could be a blessing in disguise because Holland has suddenly become Captain Fantastic and is a revelation since his return from injury. There are simply not a enough superlatives to describe McCarthy's contribution tonight, let me just say his performance was magnificent.
Charlton should have been at least 2 goals to the good at half-time but the great thing is we were so much in control that my confidence of the final score grew and grew, so that any thing but a comprehensive victory would have been a travesty. We hit the post and at one time I thought we would never score but Varney sealed a great victory with two well taken goals. Come on you Reds
Weaver 8 Little to do but always looked comfortable
Youga 9 Great game and unfortunately with the consistent performances I fear a Premiership club may well come a knocking
McCarthy 9.5 Almost a perfect performance with distribution at top notch
Bougherra 9 Is this the same nervous player we saw at the beginning of the season
Halford 9 One of the best debuts I have witnessed at the Valley
Zhi 9 Simply awesome
Holland 9.75 What a game and led the team superbly
Lloyd Sam 8.5 Best game for ages
Ambrose 7.5 Lost position a couple times in dangerous postions but he will come good Im convinced
Gray 8 Still finding his feet but as a holding player its starting to pay dividends
Varney 9.5 Brilliant run for the second after a great Holland free-kick -run himself ragged
Pardew 9.9 What more is there to say -Got it right
The Crowd 8 Call me old fashioned but bating the Palarce just doesn't appeal to me but we got behind the team
Referee 8 Did well considering the cauldron of fire.
Footnote If we dont get promotion now- next season is going to be unbearable.
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