{"id":393691,"date":"2026-04-11T19:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393691\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:35:09","slug":"charlton-athletic-1-2-preston-north-end-brad-potts-hits-preston-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393691\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlton Athletic 1-2 Preston North End: Brad Potts hits Preston winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wins for lowly Portsmouth and Oxford United mean the threat of relegation still remains for the Addicks, who have lost three in a four-game winless run &#8211; and six consecutive league games against North End.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A bright start had raised hopes of a win that would have gone a long way to easing those relegation fears, with Rankin-Costello heading a Tyreece Campbell&#8217;s cross against the post just before he did find the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The lead was short-lived, Dobbin&#8217;s controlled header ensuring the teams went in level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Preston&#8217;s increasing pressure and threat led to them going ahead with 25 minutes left when Dobbin burst forward on the counter-attack and found Potts, who scored his second goal in six days &#8211; following up on his goal against QPR on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charlton almost snatched a point late on but keeper Daniel Iversen pulled off an excellent stop to deny Lloyd Jones and earn his side just their third win in 16 Championship matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wins for lowly Portsmouth and Oxford United mean the threat of relegation still remains for the Addicks, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-393691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}