Charlton Athletic v Plymouth Argyle
Man in the Middle
JOHN BUSBY
Games:37 Yellows 92 Reds 4
(Peterborough 2 - 1 Plymouth, MK Dons 0 - 1 Plymouth, CUP Plymouth 1 - 0 Grimsby)
Assisted by Anthony Da Costa and Garry Maskell
Fourth Official: Thomas Ramsey
Argyle will be feature on Soccer AM and Soccer Saturday this Saturday
Charlton NewsThe big news for Charlton was the manager was he going, now we know he has gone to Oxford. Former Leeds and Newcastle midfielder Lee Bowyer has been named the caretaker manager.
Yesterday at Charlton.
First came the club statement at 9.15am that Karl Robinson had left the club 'by mutual consent'. Mutual consent tends to indicate that money is not involved. Robinson will not get a pay-off, and the club will not seek recompense for him terminating his contract early.
Lee Bowyer will takeover as caretaker manager, with Johnnie Jackson as his assistant. The duo took training for the first time on Thursday.
Rumours intensified during the day that the long running takeover saga was close to completion, with an Australian consortium finally buying the club, possibly as soon as the early part of next week.
There was speculation that the group will install current Crawley boss, Harry Kewell, as manager and that former Addick, Paul Elliott, will become chairman.
Finally, it was announced that Robinson had been appointed as the new head coach at Oxford.
Bowyer and Jackson's first job is to prepare the team for Saturday's clash with Plymouth at The Valley.
Argyle will be backed by a large travelling support and are bang in form.
Robinson has been criticised for his reliance on a 4-2-3-1 formation, but he assembled a squad to play that system.
It is probably too late for Bowyer to change shape on Saturday, and given that the team have been set up to play this way all season, he may continue with it going forward.
Robinson expressed doubts that Ben Amos would be fit for this game. But as the club have not dipped into the emergency loan window - still available for keepers - it has to be assumed that either Amos or Dillon Phillips will be fit enough to play.
InjuriesChris Solly, Jay Dasilva, Ahmed Kashi, Lewis Page, Billy Clarke, Leon Best and Stephy Mavididi
Argyle NewsWill the change in management at Charlton fire up their team and bring Argyle down?
Plymouth manager Derek Adams insists his team won’t be affected by Karl Robinson’s Charlton departure.
The Addicks host Argyle on Saturday hoping to revive their play-off hopes under new caretaker boss Lee Bowyer.
Adams told the local media, I think that from our point of view, we’re in a rich vein of form and we want to continue that.
One player looking forward to this game is Ruben Lameiras. The attacker has lots of connections with London after spending much of his career at the Tottenham Hotspur youth academy, he is keen to show everybody back home what his current team are all about.
InjuriesSonny has come back to training after his illness. Adams as said twice this week that Sonny will not be in the squad, but The Herald was wondering if it was a smoke screen.
Jordan Bentley, Ryan Edwards, Jamie Ness, Antoni Sarcevic, Gary Miller and Simon Church.
Do not forget gentleman Charlton’s home game against Plymouth Argyle at the Valley is Prostate Cancer and Men’s Health Awareness Day.
As part of this activity, PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) testing, undertaken by the Graham Fulford Charitable Trust, will be available from 12pm-2.45pm for fans of both clubs.
Prediction I am going for 2-nil win to Argyle
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