Southampton 2-3 Charlton Athletic: result and report

Championship · Saturday 4 April 2009

Result

Southampton 2-3 Charlton Athletic

Championship · Saturday 4 April 2009, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Southampton 2-3 Charlton Athletic: match report

Southampton were beaten by Charlton Athletic 2-3 in the Championship on Saturday 4 April 2009. It was 1-1 at half-time.

J. Shelvey opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Southampton's goals came from David McGoldrick (17') and Bradley Wright-Phillips (84'). Charlton Athletic scored through J. Shelvey (7'), N. Racon (60') and Nicky Bailey (69').

Discipline: Southampton received 1 yellow card; Charlton Athletic received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Southampton were 23rd on 40 points from 39 and Charlton Athletic 24th on 29 points from 39. Southampton went on to finish that season 23rd with 45 points, and Charlton Athletic 24th with 39.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Southampton win, 6 draws and 3 for Charlton Athletic.

Going into the match Southampton's last five read D-D-D-L-W and Charlton Athletic's D-L-D-L-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · J. ShelveyCharlton Athletic · 0-1
  • 17'Goal · David McGoldrickSouthampton · 1-1
  • 27'Missed penalty · Tresor KandolCharlton Athletic
  • 30'Yellow card · P. WottonSouthampton
  • 50'Yellow card · M. HudsonCharlton Athletic
  • 60'Goal · N. RaconCharlton Athletic · 1-2
  • 67'Yellow card · Tresor KandolCharlton Athletic
  • 69'Goal · Nicky BaileyCharlton Athletic · 1-3
  • 73'Yellow card · J. ShelveyCharlton Athletic
  • 84'Goal · Bradley Wright-PhillipsSouthampton · 2-3
  • 90'Yellow card · R. ElliotCharlton Athletic

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Southampton 1, draws 6, Charlton Athletic 3.

Team news

Southampton expected line-up

Antti Niemi, Claus Lundekvam, Danny Higginbotham, Paul Telfer, Anders Svensson, Fabrice Fernandes, David Prutton, Kevin Phillips, Rory Delap

Charlton Athletic expected line-up

Scott Carson, Luke Young, Souleymane Diawara, Alex Song, Zhi Zheng, Darren Ambrose, Matt Holland, Darren Bent, Hermann Hreidarsson, Talal El Karkouri