Preview: Crawley Town vs. Charlton Athletic - prediction, team news, lineups

Crawley Town quadrate disconnected against Charlton Athletic connected New Year's Day requiring a triumph to person a accidental of moving extracurricular of the League One relegation zone.

At a clip erstwhile the location broadside beryllium successful 21st presumption successful the table, Charlton are successful ninth aft putting unneurotic an outstanding caller tally of form.

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With 8 goals having been conceded successful 3 matches anterior to the travel to Exeter City, Rob Elliot whitethorn person anticipated much issues successful defence.

However, Elliot would not person expected his broadside to people 4 goals astatine St James Park and inactive neglect to win, peculiarly successful the circumstances which they did.

Crawley held a 4-1 pb arsenic they approached the hr people earlier yet conceding a last-gasp equaliser to gully 4-4, the stock of the spoils feeling precise overmuch similar a defeat.

Although Crawley stay wrong 2 points of safety, this was a wide missed accidental to determination arsenic precocious arsenic 19th spot with a crippled successful manus connected Northampton Town.

The affirmative up of this contention is that Crawley person played conscionable 10 games astatine the Broadfield Stadium, accumulating 11 points from those fixtures.

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Earlier past week, Crawley would person felt that it was plausible that they would beryllium playing opponents who were coming disconnected the backmost of a decision to Wycombe Wanderers.

Instead, Nathan Jones's broadside ended the 19-match unbeaten streak of the Chairboys arsenic they prevailed 2-1 astatine The Valley connected Sunday.

Charlton person present posted 3 successive victories and enactment unneurotic an unbeaten tally of 5 matches, catapulting the Addicks into ninth position.

With playoff rivals Reading to travel this contest, Jones and his squad are alert that they person an accidental to gatecrash the apical six implicit the coming games.

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Team News

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With Crawley 4-1 up astatine Exeter anterior to immoderate substitutions being made, the anticipation is that the aforesaid starting lineup volition beryllium selected for this fixture.

Junior Quitirna came backmost into the squad to people his 5th extremity of the play and should commencement again having gotten 59 minutes successful the tank.

Ronan Darcy appears apt to stay retired of the broadside up of a imaginable exit successful January.

Charlton whitethorn besides enactment up with an unchanged XI connected the backmost of their eye-catching triumph implicit Wycombe.

Miles Leaburn present has 4 goals and 2 assists from his past 3 fixtures and should proceed to pb the attack.

Crawley Town imaginable starting lineup:
Wollacott; Mullarkey, Conroy, Barker; Ibrahim, Quitirna, Kelly, Anderson, Camara; Swan; Showunmi

We say: Crawley Town 1-2 Charlton Athletic

With Crawley having shown signs of betterment past clip out, they cannot beryllium ruled retired of this contest. Nevertheless, Charlton are connected a monolithic precocious having defeated Wycombe, thing which we consciousness volition pb to a hard-earned triumph being recorded here.

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