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  • Kick-off: 20:00
  • Venue: The Valley
  • Attendance: 21543
  • Referee: Singh, J

Live Commentary

90 mins

That's it, it's all over, the referee has blown the final whistle.

90 mins

It's red. He's off. Dion Dublin has been sent off.

90 mins

Lloyd Sam is being taken off, Darren Ambrose has come on in his place.

90 mins

Zhi Zheng is being taken off, Sam Sodje has come on in his place.

89 mins

Chris Brown is being taken off, Jason Shackell has come on in his place.

89 mins

Julien Brellier is being taken off, Jamie Cureton has come on in his place.

88 mins

Andy Reid takes a penalty for Charlton and scores!.

86 mins

Andy Reid takes a penalty for Charlton and scores!.

85 mins

Gary Doherty goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.

80 mins

Charlton are replacing Luke Varney with Izale McLeod.

73 mins

Jose Vitor Moreira Semedo is booked for unsporting behaviour.

72 mins

Luke Varney goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.

60 mins

Darren Huckerby is booked for unsporting behaviour.

46 mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 0 v 0.

46 mins

Luke Chadwick is being taken off, Lee Croft has come on in his place.

45 mins

The ref has blown his whistle for half time.

0 mins

It's 8pm on Tuesday, September 18th, the match has kicked off.

Match Report

In an explosive and controversial last five minutes, Charlton Athletic kept up their impressive early season form with a 2-0 victory over Norwich City at The Valley.

Both goals came from the penalty spot and the visitors had their veteran skipper Dion Dublin sent off in injury time.

Despite the nature of their victory, Charlton were well worth the three points as they outplayed their East Anglian opponents for long periods of the game.

And it looked as though all their possession would count for nothing as Norwich defended stubbornly with the home side twice hitting the woodwork before the late drama sent the Charlton supporters home happy.

The breakthrough came on 86 minutes when substitute Izale McLeod was brought down in the area by Gary Doherty and Charlton skipper Andy Reid stepped up to fire the ball into the net.

Two minutes later McLeod was again upended in the penalty area this time by Julien Brellier and Reid confidently slotted his second spot-kick wide of Norwich keeper David Marshall.

Then in injury time Dublin was shown a red card for a professional foul to spoil what for him had been an otherwise excellent performance at the heart of the defence.

Chris Iwelumo saw his tenth minute header rebound off the underside of the bar and somehow Charlton managed to put the rebound wide.

It took Norwich 39 minutes to get anywhere near the Charlton goal, but it needed an excellent save from goalkeeper Nicky Weaver to deny Darren Huckerby.

Their only other worthwhile effort was a Chris Brown header which went over the bar.

This was a satisfying performance for Charlton boss Alan Pardew against the team managed by Peter Grant, who was his assistant when the two were together at West Ham.

Charlton Athletic Team

Norwich City Team

Charlton Athletic

Norwich City

Corners

10 3

Fouls

8 19

Goal attempts

22 7

Shots off target

7 2

Offsides

3 5

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