Centre-back Noah Eile\u2019s first goal since joining from New York Red Bulls at the start of February settled the Championship contest at the Valley.<\/p>\n
Former England boss Hodgson made his return to club football for the first time since stepping down as Crystal Palace manager in February 2024.<\/p>\n
And his City side made a strong start in south-east London with striker Emil Riis squandering a big chance inside the opening three minutes. The Dane was played clean through by Neto Borges but struck the outside of the right post.<\/p>\n
The visitors were good value for their opening goal after 11 minutes. Scott Twine had already had a shot blocked by Amari\u2019i Bell but made no mistake from inside the area after being picked out by Max Bird.<\/p>\n
Charlton goalkeeper Will Mannion made a diving save to his left to push away a Bird attempt.<\/p>\n
The Addicks\u2019 leveller on the half-hour mark came against the run of play. Lyndon Dykes combined with Charlie Kelman and tucked a low finish into the bottom left corner of the net for the Scotland international\u2019s third goal since joining from Birmingham in the winter transfer window.<\/p>\n
It was the first time Charlton had scored in the first half at home since November 22.<\/p>\n
Twine tried a speculative free-kick from near the touchline \u2013 trying to punish Mannion straying from his goal-line \u2013 but the ball just cleared the crossbar.<\/p>\n
Charlton\u2019s Harry Clarke drove over on his weaker left foot in the final action of the first period.<\/p>\n
City retook the lead in the 55th minutes. Swedish defender Eile scrambled the ball home after Twine\u2019s free-kick had squirmed out of Mannion\u2019s grasp.<\/p>\n
Sonny Carey sent a half-volley across the face of Radek Vitek\u2019s goal as the hosts tried to find an instant response but then Mannion was required to make a one-handed stop to deny the influential Twine.<\/p>\n
Charlton substitute Ibrahim Fullah produced a 74th-minute attempt from the edge of the box that required a smart save by Vitek.<\/p>\n
The on-loan Manchester United goalkeeper made an even better stop from close range to deny Matt Godden, keeping out the experienced forward\u2019s shot with his legs.<\/p>\n
Tyreece Campbell produced a poor finish after Jayden Fevrier produced an excellent cross a matter of seconds after replacing Charlton captain Greg Docherty.<\/p>\n
Kayne Ramsay produced a superb tackle to deny Sinclair Armstrong after the City substitute seized on a mistake by Bell.<\/p>\n
Vitek made another big save from Joe Rankin-Costello in a pulsating finale while Armstrong had another chance to kill off the match on the counter but Mannion denied him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Centre-back Noah Eile\u2019s first goal since joining from New York Red Bulls at the start of February settled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-156455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}