A goal in either half from Albie Morgan and Omar Bogle saw Charlton to a comfortable 2-0 victory over Town at Portman Road. Morgan put his side ahead with a low shot on 21 in an evenly-balanced first half, while sub Bogle scored with his first touch in the 68th minute to seal the three points for the visitors with the Blues, who are down to sixth, never looking like staging a comeback.

Liam Gibbs and David Cornell were handed their league debuts as manager Paul Lambert made four changes from the team which lost 3-0 at home to Hull City on Tuesday.

Gibbs, 17, came into the midfield three with Andre Dozzell, who was back after his three-match ban and Brett McGavin.

Bury St Edmunds-based academy product Gibbs, who had previously made two starts and one sub appearance in the EFL Trophy, started in a role ahead of the deeper Dozzell with McGavin completing one of the youngest midfields the Blues have ever fielded in a league game.

Emyr Huws is missing from the squad, presumably having joined Jon Nolan, Teddy Bishop, Flynn Downes, Cole Skuse and Tristan Nydam on a long midfield injured list.

Cornell took over in goal from Tomas Holy, who dropped to the bench. The Welshman had previously made five starts in cup games for the Blues since his summer move from Northampton.

At the centre of the defence, Toto Nsiala returned to the right of Luke Woolfenden with Mark McGuinness among the subs. Skipper Luke Chambers and Stephen Ward continued as the full-backs.

Up front, Keanan Bennetts was on the left and Alan Judge the right with James Norwood again the central striker.

For Charlton, manager Lee Bowyer, a former Blues midfielder, brought Chuks Aneke, Albie Morgan and ex-Blues loanee Jonny Williams into his XI for Omar Bogle, Alex Gilbey and Marcus Maddison, who were among the subs.

The Addicks were again forced to field a makeshift centre-half pairing of right-back Chris Gunter and midfielder Darren Pratley.

Prior to kick-off there was a minute’s applause in memory of football legend Diego Maradona, who died earlier in the week.

The game started scruffily but in the fifth minute McGavin won the ball midway inside the Charlton half and fed Bennetts, who took it on and hit a shot from the edge of the box which struck and Addicks defender. On the arm, according to Bennetts, but referee Craig Hicks showed no interest.

On 13 Judge found Chambers in space on the right. The Blues captain cut in and hit a shot with the outside of his boot which caught a defender on its way wide. From the resultant corner on the left, Nsiala rose highest but nodded beyond the far post.

A minute later, with Town looking the more dangerous side, Bennetts appeared to try to catch Addicks keeper Ben Amos unawares with a shot from wide on the left when a cross looked the more obvious option.

As the game approached the quarter-hour mark, the Blues came close to going in front when Dozzell played a ball through for Norwood, who held off Gunter but a heavy touch took it away from him and the striker was unable to avoid hooking his effort at goal from eight yards over the bar as well as Amos.

Two minutes later, Charlton felt they should have been awarded a penalty when Aneke’s flick sent Williams in on goal but Nsiala somehow got back to outmuscle the Welsh international and stab away and Cornell saved down to his right. A spot-kick would have been harsh but as Town know to their cost that penalties can be awarded in such situations.

The Addicks were starting to look more threatening and on 20 Aneke shot well over from a tight angle on the right.

And the South Londoners only had to wait another minute to go in front. Aneke won the ball from Woolfenden as he sought to play out on the edge of the area to the left and fed Andrew Shinnie. The Scot took it into the area before his low ball deflected off a Town defender to Morgan and the 20-year-old fired his first league goal for the Addicks past Cornell from 12 yards. Once again, Town’s defending had contributed much to an opposition goal.

In the 28th minute the Blues wasted a free-kick in a promising position not far outside the box. Dozzell played it wide to Judge on the left but the Irishman’s cross looped beyond Nsiala at the far post and out for a goal-kick.

Town lost striker Norwood to what looked to be another hamstring injury in the 35th minute. Aaron Drinan replaced the former Tranmere man a minute later, while Ward was receiving treatment for a knock of his own. Norwood’s exit was the third time in three games the Blues had lost a player to injury in the first half.

Drinan was making his first appearance since the opening day of the league season when he suffered a thigh injury in the 2-0 victory over Wigan.

The visitors had keeper Amos to thank for maintaining their 1-0 lead in the 38th minute, the keeper flying away to his right to palm Judge’s flicked header from Dozzell’s free-kick on the right past his post.

A minute later, Drinan won the ball on the byline from the hesitant Pratley and cut it back to Judge, whose shot was somehow deflected over by Ian Maatsen. As has been the case too often of late, Town’s corner came to nothing.

In the 43rd minute Judge was shown the game’s first yellow card for a foul on Shinnie as Charlton broke.

In the final scheduled minute of the half, Paul Smyth got away behind Nsiala but threw himself to the ground just outside the area as the defender looked to get back in front of him. Referee Hicks was unimpressed with his dive but showed no card.

As half-time approached, most of the game was being played in the visitors’ half of the field but with Blues passes going astray at vital moments.

Again Town were left rueing having not taken chances at one end while being the architects of their own downfall at the other with there having been little between the sides during what had been a scruffy half overall.

Norwood will feel he should have taken his chance, while Judge’s header was kept out by an excellent Amos save, although the Irishman may believe he should have scored his other opportunity after Drinan had done well to win the ball back on the byline.

Keeper Cornell had had a relatively quiet half but the Blues still found themselves behind at the break from another very preventable goal.

Charlton were first the threaten after the restart. Morgan broke down the right and sent over a deep cross which Smyth looked to volley but the ball scuffed off his foot and out of play.

On 51 Aneke broke away from Woolfenden and hit a shot across Cornell which the keeper saved down to his right. Three minutes later, the Addicks swapped Williams for Gilbey.

As the hour mark approached, the Addicks were presenting the greatest threat, counter-attacking after Blues moves forward broke down. But fortunately up to now without seriously testing Cornell.

Town swapped Gibbs, who will have learned a lot from his first senior game and had shown one or two moments of his promise, for Jackson in the 64th minute as Charlton’s Smyth underwent treatment on the pitch having injured himself trying to bring down the Town youngster moments before his substitution.

Smyth was eventually helped to the stretcher cart, taken straight down the tunnel and replaced by Bogle, while Jackson joined Drinan in a front two.

Less than two minutes after being introduced, Bogle doubled his side’s lead with his first touch. Woolfenden failed to clear a long throw from the right, Pratley crossed and the former Wigan and Grimsby man slammed into the net at the far post having escaped Chambers’s attention. Yet another very soft goal from a Town perspective.

In the 71st minute Town were forced into another change with Nsiala suffering a knock and McGuinness taking over. The Blues also switched McGavin for Jack Lankester. Charlton replaced Aneke, a thorn in the Town backline’s side all afternoon, with Ben Purrington.

The Blues had a mountain to climb having gone two goals down, particularly as they had only scored more than once in one of their last six league games.

Their performance became more disjointed as the visitors grew in confidence having established their two-goal lead.

On 81 Judge hit a powerful shot against a defender, then took the rebound into the box before hitting another effort which was easy for Amos, whose only serious save all afternoon had been the Irish international’s header in the first half.

After seven minutes of injury time, referee Hicks’s whistle confirmed another Blues defeat to a side in the upper reaches of the division with Town still to win against anyone in the top eight and having taken only three points from their three back-to-back home games, and those via a very fortunate victory over Shrewsbury.

The Blues never really looked like getting back on terms in the early stages of the second period and once Charlton had gone two in front the destination of the three points never looked in any doubt.

Another defeat will see manager Lambert’s position come under further scrutiny with fans having made their frustrations known after Tuesday’s 3-0 loss to leaders Hull City.

The Blues have now lost three of their last four in the league and seven of their last 10 in all competitions.

Whether owner Marcus Evans heeds fans’ calls for a change of manager remains to be seen but something certainly needs to change to prevent the season going in the same direction as the last campaign in which the Blues started brightly before drifting to a dismal mid-table finish.

Town are now down to sixth, with their game the only fixture involving the teams at the top being played today, ahead of tricky away trips to Oxford on Tuesday and Plymouth next Saturday.

Town: Cornell, Chambers (c), Woolfenden, Nsiala (McGuinness 71), Ward, Dozzell, McGavin (Lankester 71), Gibbs (Jackson 64), Bennetts, Judge, Norwood (Drinan 36). Unused: Holy, Kenlock, Hawkins.

Charlton: Amos, Gunter, Williams (Gilbey 54), Aneke (Purrington 71), Shinnie, Pratley (c), Matthews, Morgan, Maatsen, Watson, Smyth (Bogle 66). Unused: Maynard-Brewer, Pearce, Maddison. Referee: Craig Hicks (Surrey).

Photo: Matchday Images

Bluearmy_81 added 13:27 - Nov 29 BeattiesBP has linked an EADT article where he states he's turned down 2 offers in the last few years. I was pleased with PL thus time last year as most fans were but success last season was black and white, go up equals success, remain equals failure. There was no need to give him 5 years when his contract ran out this summer. Hes a clueless clown but he'll always have subservient sycophants like you rabbit to back him it seems..

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BettyBlue added 13:37 - Nov 29 Playing the youngsters, giving them a chance, delivering youth the Ipswich way. NO Paul, this was a hospital pass to the youngsters to help gloss over the fact that you "don't know what you're doing"
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rabbit added 13:54 - Nov 29 Haha brilliant Bluearmy_81 there was never any doubt about what ME said in the article, once again because you lose the argument you are unable to respond with anything but deflection and insults, strange that for someone who has told us all previously that he is a "Psychologist". Come on Bluearmy_81 tell us what we all want to hear; when are you going to actually do anything as you've previously promised, and just for a laugh tell us again why you didn't turn up when a demo was organised.

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rabbit added 13:57 - Nov 29 By the way Bluearmy_81 show me anywhere on this or any other forum where I have backed ME.
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BeattiesBackPocket added 14:06 - Nov 29 Rabbit at no point have I ever found you offensive maybe read back on my posts. My posts have facts attached to them not just opinions including the five pint plan of youngsters into the first team that cannot be implemented as o said to blues1 due to not being a cat 1 club and we never will be part of that elitist club unless we go into the premier league. All I've asked the likes of yourself or dolphin is to tell me which would you prefer you say there was no offers we had two offers as well as evans' offer on that table and sheepshanks albeit responsible for the initial downfall and debt building two new stands chose him. You and others have asked me who would buy the club and to name people well the interview shows proof of that so that's been answered also, and YOU do not know that they wouldn't have been better owners and we wouldn't be better off. We also do not know if anyone would buy the club and do a better job until it's up for sale. Please just tell me what evans has done for the club positive?? How is being an average league one side positive? Tell me how limping towards league two is positive in your eyes? Why do you believe his spout every single time he announces a new five point plan that doesn't and so far hasn't worked which shows the guy lies? Would you like me to dig out the Pre season ticket letters when McCarthy was here talking about challenging for play offs when we had the 5th lowest wage budget in the championship surely being a season ticket holder you will have had these? Again that was a lie. Unlike some on here I never expected him to spend millions on players but a wage budget to compete yes how can we possibly have the low a wage budget with our gates compared to a team like Brentford who do compete and can afford to bring in players because they survive on selling those players on a huge profit and hold out for what they want that's where our huge debt comes from. The scouting network costs money Brentford have an excellent one we have a poor one. Tell me who do you blame if not the person running the club? Your only answer is ever we could be bury?? Well we could be a wolves or a Norwich as well with some investment and they don't make the losses we do either. As an extremely successful businessman he's had to speculate to build his empire and make money football clubs are no different but he hasn't wanted to do that hence why we are where we are. I've not even asked for him to leave just for fans to grow some balls make him aware of what he's done to us as a club isn't good enough and see some action because at the moment he isn't hearing it! I don't wanna be in league two because that's where we're heading on current form and you or anyone can blame the manager but who else will come here accept these type of managers!? no one decent that's for sure. If you are happy for where Marcus evans has teamed us then good for you but I am not. And he should be accountable for HIS actions. Look at Blackburn after their owners got ousted were so passive as a group of fans it's ridiculous arsenal and West Ham fans were protesting about their owners last year so we're Notts forest and look where those team are compared to ours!? Blackburn protested after dropping down to league one but you're ok with what he's doing 👍

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BeattiesBackPocket added 14:11 - Nov 29 Rabbit you back ME in your actions by never criticising him, by saying we could have worse we could be a bury that kind of talk or down marking anyone who even mentions evans being the issue after a game. You've said in the past when a player has come on after a defeat and apologised for what's happened ‘what's he supposed to say' well a lot of fans have a lot to say after games as well and what are they supposed to say seeing their club sink to the lowest placing in over 60 years? Where is the link for insolvency?? You spoke about on a previous post from 2007? Also why do you think we have lost 120 million in 13 years as it's not on the team so where!? No other club is losing that kind of money?

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BettyBlue added 14:38 - Nov 29 Leave Rabbit alone he is a true Blue supporter. Madonna that is.
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Bluearmy_81 added 14:41 - Nov 29 BBP I think the cuckhold like attitude of some on here is down to the fact he is a multi millionaire, I think it makes them go all dewey eyed. Even if he is completely fcukin my club over he has millions so I'll keep faith in him and call him Mr Evans... Its pitiful.
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BettyBlue added 14:43 - Nov 29 "Are you having a hard time, Paul?" "Me, the manger? are you kidding I'm taking home £20,000 a week no matter what the team does. if I get sacked I still get the £20,000 as long as I don't get another job. And I think I've taken care of that."
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Carberry added 15:08 - Nov 29 Rabbit, I think you'll find the club went into voluntary administration to avoid bankruptcy and where on earth did you get the information that two bidders went on to unsuccessfully steward other clubs. Where did that come from? The problem with you and others is you you don't hold back from picking a fight on here, for all the bemoaning you do. And you don't hold back on marking people down, you regularly do that to me when I'm making points that you obviously just disagree with - but you cant leave it can you? Just back off, let people have their views and if you dont agree take a deep breath and write something that's factually correct, without being aggressive, then move on.

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Barty added 16:37 - Nov 29 Lambert out now
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bricor2011 added 16:46 - Nov 29 I can here Mick McCarthy laughing from here, it was rubbish football but we would still be in the Championship.
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Bluespeed added 17:20 - Nov 29 Sunderland have balls ! Evans weak as Pi55 ! Proves it !!
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martin587 added 17:34 - Nov 29 LEN spot on with your posts once again.It is very annoying when your views are taken the wrong way.Everybody should be able to air there views on the club without getting abuse.Should this happen then it is up to the mediators to intervene and hopefully have them removed.This is a very good forum and long May it stay that way. I'm still scratching my head to ascertain just what PL has achieved since he was employed.If my memory serves me well he took us out of the championship to Div 1.We finished 11th last season and are now struggling this season and I think it's unjust to blame it ALL on the injuries.The buck lies with PL and his team.Poor tactics lack of cohesion senior players well below par and know plan B.I could go on and on but then again we all know where the problem lies.If major changes are not dealt immediately we will be stuck in this league till kingdom come.

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dirtydingusmagee added 19:05 - Nov 29 when the owner backs a failing manager with an extension to his contract you just know he hasnt any ambition or idea . We will reap the rewards of that stupid episode, and the writing is already on the wall . Evans must be able to see it, BUT can he read it ?
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shakytown added 06:37 - Nov 30 Sadly all we have to choose from are old past it cart horses and weak little boys. 10 years of mis-management coming home to roost. This pack of weaklings will never amount to anything.
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rabbit added 17:12 - Nov 30 BeattiesBackPocket, if you say that you have not been offended by our interactions then I am pleased it just seems that you often ask me to respond to points when I have made no comment which I don't really understand. I appreciate your long response it seems that you have raised all the same points you put to me before, sorry but I am not going to regurgitate the same information time after time, but if you care to look back it was 17th May. Carberry, you are quite right the business did go into administration the first time in 2002/03 ( I think, not checked ) however in 2007 the business was again in dire straits and could not even pay the Norwich Union loan interest, bankruptcy was literally days away. About other bidders the information I got was from the link that BBP gave, give it a go it's a decent read. I am sorry that you don't like the marking up and down system on this site but it is part of the process of posting an opinion, if you don't like being disagreed with then it is down to you not to post. As far as making factual points I suggest you check back with what I have written it is all factual, let me know what you think is not.

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BeattiesBackPocket added 21:49 - Nov 30 Rabbit The only reason your name gets a mention Is because you back evans no matter what. As I say when and what will it take to become disgruntled with him? Phil from twtd getting banned from the press conferences and then being censored for his comments etc with the club? The supporters club now finally getting sick of the and I quote ‘stagnation' of the club under evans? League two or national league?? What would finally get you upset about what he's done to us? If he really wanted to sell the club like some have mentioned on here in support of him in the past then he's had the chance same as if he put it up for sale he may get some other offers? Bit strange he doesn't want to really as he bemoans how much he supposedly puts in (one of the seasons he said he put 6 million in it was in fact 500,000) so why keep something he has no real ties to or even supports? I've been asked like most on here to come up with an alternative that's all people ever say when evans gets stick well I have done that two buyers that we know of could be even more for all we know. I have no issue with down arrows it's the consistency and only ever when evans is being called out anyone would think you was evans himself! I'll always look for facts before posting and all mine have had facts and my own opinion which appears to be becoming a lot more supporters opinion now well except yourself and dolphin that is

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BeattiesBackPocket added 21:54 - Nov 30 I've also given facts about how evans cannot implement your five point plan you have been sucked into by the guy? He has regurgitated this same five point plan the last 6 seasons and that's a fact surely if it works we wouldn't be where we are since six years ago? He talked of promotion under McCarthy well he's poured boiling water on that by saying his remit was to stay up? And you trust this guy STILL I think you're slowly but very surely becoming a minority and now the supporters club are getting involved

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BeattiesBackPocket added 22:10 - Nov 30 Rabbit I'll also highlight this from that same interview ‘ Evans firmly refutes claims that his levels of investment — around £6m a year on average — have led to a gradual erosion of quality and the club sitting seven points adrift of safety at the foot of the Championship. He insists the club is ‘definitely not for sale' and that he ‘definitely still wants to be here and get us to where I planned right from the beginning'. What backs his claim up here? His lack of investment in wages alone has left us in league one and average side in what is quite a poor league as I say championship challengers to lowest pasition in league one would say he's not invested, 5th lowest wage budget in championship last two seasons would show that as well. And that last quote of his get us back where I planned how in your opinion has that worked out for us so far?? After 13 years?? Deteriorating team at best. I don't believe a word the man says he lies and cheated selling on Olympic tickets that's well documented and this is who you trust with our club. We had two other offers as well as evans' at the start as well as two since

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BeattiesBackPocket added 22:12 - Nov 30 I'd also say who's to say we wouldn't have been promoted if magilton hadn't been sacked and all our best players let go or sold off from that 2007 squad?
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rabbit added 08:00 - Dec 1 BeattiesBackPocket you say you deal in facts but go on to say I back ME no matter what; I have answered that question many times please go back and read what I have said about my opinions in that respect. What is the point of answering you in detail if you don't either read or accept my right to an opinion because it is quite clear that I have issues with the senior management within the business, but they are not quite as one dimensional as your own views. As far as your figures are concerned, bearing in mind you have claimed this as a fact please point me to that part of the balance sheet where it proves your point, I read the balance sheets in reasonable detail but have never seen what you claim. With regard to MM's purported remit, I'm sorry bearing in mind he had no success at ITFC in 7 years, when teams with less funding achieved more, I don't see why you would accept his word against that of the owner. Lets be quite honest if MM was the man he claims to be he would never, for his professional pride alone, accept a remit of stagnation, so I'm sorry I take that with a pinch of salt, but dealing in facts neither of us actually know the full truth. Talking of Magilton I'm sorry I haven't a clue, personally I thought he had started to do a reasonable job, but like 99.9% of supporters when RK was appointed I thought it was a step forward, of course we all know differently now and a lot of people now claim they didn't agree with the appointment at the time, but again look back to even the comments on this site from that period and it certainly does not show dissension to the appointment.

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BeattiesBackPocket added 11:32 - Dec 1 Rabbit as I said in a previous post if you look back as you ask others to do so I said you back him In the fact whenever anyone mentions his name you down mark without even giving a reason or argument to the fact of why. You constantly say we could be worse off well we could be a lot better off like we was before he came we are much much worse off in his 13 years surely you can see as a club we have slowly lost any quality and finished our lowest position in over 60 years and under HIS tenure? If you're saying we're better off then you're on a different planet to most we are worse off under this guy that's a fact! 5th lowest wage budget in the championship who had less and did better than mick then? I wasn't a great fan of McCarthys style of play or his occasional arrogance but why on earth would he say that if it wasn't true and Evans has never refuted that claim either? You believe evans at literally every turn even though he was found out over the Olympic ticketing, the fact he bangs out a five point plan past 6 which he mentions he's starting every other year when it doesn't work, talks of challenging for the playoffs alone when you have one of the lowest wage budgets and poorest scouting system in itself is a lie. You appear to be the only one who cannot see this. Balance sheets for what wages or that year he put in 500000 and not the 6 million as claimed? I'll gladly get the sheet from my friend who is a shareholder from many years ago when fans were able to buy shares. I've never seen you post links nothing to back up your reason for why you think he's done well for us other than Evans' say so a guy who's lied to all fans, Olympic committees, yet McCarthy who has no reason to say anything different you don't believe? And you argue about why mick would do that role if someone was paying you a decent wage you'd do it It's hardly as I said at the time clubs weren't banging on his door to offer him work so yeah if I was him and someone wanted me to keep them up I'd take it at the end of his career really as well. This is due to evans and another reason we will never ever get any decent manager on the up. The Howes, Pearson's who a few years back may have gone for the town job wouldn't touch it now and why? Because the owner is not ambitious, we have a very poor squad full of players who are constantly injured and finished league one 11th. Anyway you keep on backing him rabbit I really don't know how any fan can back an owner taking us down to the lower leagues which we are looking at doing more than going in the direction he stated he wanted to get us back to only last year in his interview. The guys an absolute liar

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BeattiesBackPocket added 11:51 - Dec 1 There's plenty of other things I'd question as well including some of the facilities at the club a young lad who was suing the club couple of years back due to the poor treatment he received when healing from an injury, our injury list this season yet again which isn't a coincidence our injury list has been horrendous for years now yet people leave us like mcgoldrick whos not had anywhere near the injuries at sheff Utd since going there he played over 45 games the season after he left us injury prone! Scouting network is terrible now yet under burley this was amazing all the quality we secured from lower leagues Johnson, Holland, Stewart, etc etc and abroad like Wilnis, Reuser etc like Brentford do now that's how the club should be run! Too much penny pinching yet we're in all this debt it makes no sense whatsoever! The five point plan won't and cannot happen either with this category business and that's not evans fault we will just never get into the elite area of one! Not unless we go to the premier league. What IS his fault is trying to convince people it can happen and that the plan can work as the best kids are taken and have been taken the past 3 years bu the likes of spurs and Man City. No owner should be promising things HE KNOWS he cannot achieve or when he's not giving whoever the finance or resources to achieve it like the wage budget!

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rabbit added 16:41 - Dec 1 BeattiesBackPocket, firstly I have never said we could be worse off you must be thinking of someone else, secondly why do you need me to post a link to Companies House its a Government public website. Thirdly I will be delighted to see the relevant balance sheet that shows only £500k going in because I can't find it. I look forward to hearing from.
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