NATHAN JONES hailed the character of his players after Karoy Anderson scored four minutes from time in a comeback 2-1 victory against Bolton Wanderers at the Toughsheet Community Stadium on Tuesday night.
Anderson bagged the visitors’ winner after Lloyd Jones, on 71 minutes, had cancelled out Joel Randall’s 55th-minute opener.
Jones was angry after the Addicks’ 4-2 defeat at Rotherham United on Saturday but Charlton have won four and drawn one of their last six League One games and have moved to within four points of the top six with a game in hand.
It was Charlton’s first league double over Bolton since 2000.
“I’m really proud after the weekend. I can’t defend the performance from the weekend because it was sub-standard, that was below what we expect from our players,” Jones said. “But today they gave me everything.
“We worked hard, we pressed them, denied them, they had one counter-attack and they got fortunate with that. That’s the only time they really breached our defence.
“I’m really, really pleased, really proud of the performance because they’ve shown their character.
“Thanks to the club as well for backing us, giving us a little bit of time away so we could regroup and go again.
“I’m really proud of the team.
“I’m buzzing for Lloyd as well, at the weekend he was nowhere near the levels. Tonight he was right back.
“The club have been brilliant in backing us, allowing us to stay up here, that’s really, really helped.
“Special mention for the fans as well, up here again. After the weekend it would have been so easy for them to go, ‘we’re not going to watch that again’. I think we’ve repaid that and they’ll be going down the M6, the M1, the M25, the A2 in far better spirits.”
