Charlton Athletic 1 - 3 Burnley

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Saturday Dec 01 2007 03:00

Two dreadful pieces of defending in the first 12 minutes from identical free-kicks cost Charlton Athletic dearly as they lost 3-1 to a revitalised Burnley side.

It was the Addicks' fourth League defeat at The Valley this season and put a further dent into their play-off and promotion aspirations.

But it was another excellent day for Burnley's recently appointed manager Owen Coyle whom after a draw in his first match at homem had picked up victories at Watford on Tuesday and in today's match.

After their home defeat in midweek to Sheffield United, Charlton made four changes for the game and reverted to a 4-4-2 system, but they were stunned after eight minutes when striker Andy Gray headed home Robbie Blake's free-kick.

You would have thought the home side had learnt their lesson but, five minutes later, from an identical Blake free-kick, Chris McCann was left unmarked to head home the second.

With a mountain to climb, Charlton got back in the game on 36 minutes when skipper Andy Reid volleyed home from Danny Mills' cross, but not before Blake had had another free-kick saved.

Charlton threw everything at Burnley in the second half but could not find that vital equaliser. Reid had a shot well-saved by Gabor Kiraly who made an even better stop to deny Darren Ambrose.

Charlton's hopes of getting anything out of the game ended on 70 minutes when Mills needlessly handballed a Burnley cross to give away a penalty and Gray stepped up to fire home the spot-kick for his 13th goal of the season to make it another bad week for the home side.

  • 90
    That's it, it's all over, the referee has blown the final whistle.
  • 90
    Burnley are replacing Wade Elliott with Steve Jones.
  • 90
    Robbie Blake is replaced by Ade Akinbiyi.
  • 88
    Andy Reid is booked for unsporting behaviour.
  • 87
    The referee has booked Joey Gudjonsson.
  • 85
    Luke Varney is replaced by Izale McLeod.
  • 78
    Sam Sodje is replaced by Madjid Bougherra.
  • 78
    Zhi Zheng is being taken off, Lloyd Sam has come on in his place.
  • 70
    Andy Gray takes a penalty for Burnley and scores!.
  • 69
    Danny Mills is booked for unsporting behaviour.
  • 63
    Alan Mahon is replaced by Joey Gudjonsson.
  • 46
    The second half is under way with the score currently at 1 v 2.
  • 45
    The ref has blown his whistle for half time.
  • 36
    Goal!! Andy Reid scores for Charlton.
  • 21
    David Unsworth is booked for unsporting behaviour.
  • 18
    The referee has booked Luke Varney.
  • 13
    Goal!! Burnley have scored with Chris McCann putting it in the back of the net.
  • 8
    Goal!! Andy Gray scores for Burnley.
  • 0
    The ref has blown his whistle and the match has started.

Statistics

Charlton Athletic
Shots on target 13
Shots off target 4
Shots off bar/post 0
Fouls 19
Offsides 2
Corners 6

Burnley
Shots on target 4
Shots off target 6
Shots off bar/post 0
Fouls 15
Offsides 0
Corners 3

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