Charlton 1 West Bromwich Albion 0 

Sonny Carey scored the winning goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time as Charlton beat West Bromwich Albion 1-0 at The Valley to go fifth in the Sky Bet Championship.

The goal was the midfielder’s fifth of the season and capped off a strong defensive display as Nathan Jones’ side kept a sixth clean sheet of the campaign.

The result highlighted the depth of the Addicks’ squad,  missing a few players due to injury, and featured an excellent appearance from the bench by 18-year-old Ibrahim Fullah.

It had been a tight first half, with Samuel Iling-Junior hitting the stanchion for the visitors early on.

The Addicks had a 36th-minute penalty saved by Josh Griffiths, who dived low to his right to keep out Greg Docherty’s effort after Ousmane Diakité had handled Miles Leaburn’s knock-down from a Conor Coventry ball into the box.

Thomas Kaminsky made a big save at the start of the second half to deny Isaac Price. The in-form attacker advanced into the box, but Kaminsky made himself big to deny the Northern Ireland international.

Griffiths made his second important save of the game 10 minutes into the half, getting down low to his right to keep out Carey’s vicious shot from range.

The Ginger Genius was not to be denied deep into stoppage time. A cleared ball fell to the midfielder, who took it past a charging defender and powered a shot from 25 yards. The effort took a slight deflection and, combined with the pace, was enough to beat the excellent Griffiths and send the Covered End into jubilation.

The win means the Addicks are now unbeaten in five games ahead of Saturday’s trip to Wrexham.

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Charlton: Kaminski; Ramsay, Jones, Gillesphey; Bree (Rankin-Costello 90+7), Carey, Coventry, Docherty (c) (Knibbs 74), Hernández (Fullah 74); Leaburn (Olaofe 81), Campbell

Subs (not used): Mannion, Gough, Anderson, Berry, Apter

Goal: Carey 90+5

West Bromwich Albion: Griffiths, Phillips, Styles, Bielik (Mepham 90+3), Grant, Diakité, Heggebo (Maja 81), Price (Johnston 73), Iling-Junior (Gilchrist 81), Mowatt (c), Taylor

Subs (not used): Wildsmith, Dike, Bany, Deeming, Bostock

Referee: Lewis Smith

Attendance: 17,147 (1,453 from West Brom)