Why Mark Hudson is not playing in the Premiership is a bit of a mystery to me as his performance at the heart of Charlton Defence today was near perfect. Swansea came to play football and I think they achieved that but there neat approach play was ruined by some woeful shooting.
Charlton started brightly and after only five minutes Hudson headed a great goal majestically from a good corner by 26 old Shelvey . Ok according to the Programme he was born in 1982 but on the pitch he could pass for 26. Its a match I find hard to report on , we were neither good nor bad but the one big plus is we now look solid in defence and we can now build on that. After Swansea had their Captain dismissed for a second bookable offense Charlton had a lot more space and the result was never in doubt after Gray headed a second from a great Basey free kick. All in all we cant complain and as the title suggests a good result but a lot of hard work required.
Defence 9
Midfield 6
Attack 6
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I've always thought we could do well against teams that play football - the real test is up against those big tough buggers that steamroll over you, grind out the win by constantly humping the ball into the box and don't let anything creative happen. WBA managed to play around such teams but I'm not sure our lads are up to it - yet. Guess we'll see before too long.
Swansea played some neat football but strangely I thought the result was never in doubt. We must build the team around Hudson. My concerns are if he plays like he did on Saturday a premiership club will come in for him and with the clubs finances as they are he may well be sold. I must stop being so pessimistic.
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