MATT PICKENS THEM OUT OF THE NET
Tuesday 25th March 2008
by Ron Norris

An extremely young reserve team side was easily beaten 3-0 at league leaders Charlton this afternoon in a fixture played behind closed doors.

Matt Pickens played his second successive game at this level but lined up behind a very inexperienced outfield ten which was made up entirely of under 18's players.

Michael Wright, Josh Ford, Ed Harris and Lee Brown were in defence, Billy Coyne, Matt O'Brien and Terry Smith made up the midfield three whilst Aaron Morgan-Cummings, Antonio German and Chris Arthur were the three pronged strike force.

Charlton however boasted the likes of Luke Varney, Dean Sinclair, Jonathan Fortune and Rashid Yussuff in their line up.

Yussuff opened the scoring after only five minutes with a left footed drive, Varney doubled the lead within the first twenty minutes, slamming home the rebound after Pickens had saved his initial effort then two minutes later it was game over as Ben Godfrey tapped home the third.

Romone Rose and Danny Maguire were both deployed from the bench but there was no way back into this one and the reserves now sink to bottom of the combination league having not won a league game this year.

Next up for the reserves is another tough away fixture this time at fifth placed Watford. That one takes place on Monday and kicks off at 7pm.

QPR: Pickens, Wright (Rose), Ford, Harris, Brown, Coyne, O'Brien, Smith (Maguire), Morgan-Cummings, German (Smart), Arthur Subs: Crowther, Lawrence.