Nathan Jones felt his side fell just short in a 1-0 loss to table-toppers Birmingham City.
The Addicks’ six-game unbeaten run was ended via a first-half goal for Jay Stansfield.
Speaking after the game the Charlton Manager said: “I’m a bit disappointed but they gave me everything, they really did. We just needed a bit more guile, a bit more cleverness.
“They’re the best team in the league – they’ve spent more than anyone, they’ve got a huge budget. They’re well coached, a difficult side but we want after them and it took an error really to give them the game, otherwise there was nothing in the game.
“I thought at the end we were pushing. I thought it was a little bit of nativity from us at the end because we kept giving free kicks away – they saw the game. We’d nullified them to very little, we’ve got to be a little bit better in possession. I thought we didn’t the energy that we normally have today. It’s a three-game week, it’s a big effort and we’ve just fallen short today.”
His side were well supported by nearly 2,000 travelling Charlton fans.
“I’m really proud, really proud of the club,” he said. “The fans were absolutely outstanding. They outsang theirs. They had more than 20,000 supporters but our fans out-sang them and that showed where we were second half and that they weren’t any kind of dominant in any way.”
Jones had to substitute goalkeeper Ashley Maynard-Brewer at half-time of today’s game and confirmed in his post-match interview that the goalkeeper had suffered a groin injury during the game.
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