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
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.
Key events
- 7'Goal · J. Shelvey
- 17'Goal · David McGoldrick
- 27'Missed penalty · Tresor Kandol
- 30'Yellow card · P. Wotton
- 50'Yellow card · M. Hudson
- 60'Goal · N. Racon
- 67'Yellow card · Tresor Kandol
- 69'Goal · Nicky Bailey
- 73'Yellow card · J. Shelvey
- 84'Goal · Bradley Wright-Phillips
- 90'Yellow card · R. Elliot
Head-to-head
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