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He needs a flag! Quick, who can rustle one up for Saturday?

Not the best right-back in the division but some of his getting beaten was to send Lua Lua in a place that allowed the covering defender to be favourite to block the cross or make it hard to cross well.

Lua Lua has a limited box of tricks: Collect ball and slow-down, then skin full-back on the outside. Cut in and shoot with his right. Pretend to cut in with his right, then use the outside of right-foot to turn and go on the outside. The Charlton defenders sussed him out very early on and...

Buckley is usually anonymous in games when Vicente starts. This was another to add to the pile.

Sometimes as a defender you allow yourself to be beaten as it takes the attacker into a blind alley. I got the sense a bit of that was going on leading to the second defender blocking the eventual cross or Kaz sending over a poor one from an unpromising position.

He didn't beat his man very often. Charlton defended well against him. It was that rather than him being off form, I felt.

He didn't play badly. Just that Charlton did their homework on him and didn't allow him to escape. That's all. Sometimes it happens.