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Attendance: 14,991 (1,296 Charlton Athletic fans).

Referee: James Linington.

After 60 minutes of a game that had rarely sparked any excitement, a ball from the left from the excellent Vukcevic found Ali McCann in acres of space about 6 yards out, probablt should have scored but Kaminski made a good double save, the miss woke up the crowd and from then on in we were dominant.
The first 60 minutes were basically Lewis Dobbin shooting at goal and missing, up front for the Athletic Campbell caused us some issues had a chance at the back post from a cross from the right but didn't quite get to the ball.
The law of an ex player came back to have Charlton, Small had been given grief all afternoon fired home a deflected shot past Kaminski to give us the lead, think it pleased him.
The second goal again down the left hand side Gibson to Devine, ball into box and Jeebison slides the ball in holding off a defender and keeper.
Deserved three points takes us to fourth, be nice to be there at the end of the season or even higher, not bad for a side that most ipped to go down at the end of the season.

Paul Heckingbottom felt his Preston North End put in their most dominant display of the season in the 2-0 victory over Charlton Athletic.

Second-half goals from Thierry Small and Daniel Jebbison earned the victory which extended North End’s unbeaten start to the season on home turf.

The Addicks, who have started the campaign well since their promotion last term, didn’t manage to register a shot on target on the day, with PNE keeping their third clean sheet in four matches.

Hecky said: “I thought we were very, very good with and without the ball. It’s probably the most dominant we've been this season.

“I'm really pleased with that because I've just said to the players if they'd watched Charlton play as much as I have and the staff have this season, they'd see they've given no-one an easy game. No matter who they've played against, they've been a real handful and that's been reflected in their results and why they are where they are.

“They were level before midweek, us and them had the best defence in the league, but obviously we conceded. They give you absolutely nothing. From start to finish, I was delighted with how we went about the game.”

PNE made four changes from the midweek draw against Hull City, with goalscorer Jebbison one of those to come in. He and Hecky have a long history working together, with the manager giving the Canadian his debut during their time at Sheffield United, and he’s happy to see the striker get off the mark for the club.

Hecky said: “I’m delighted because we've only seen him in fits and starts, haven't we? He got an injury when he came and we used him from the bench. He’ll play a big part for us and how we use him, that's down to us.

“I love him to bits and I think he's got a really, really high ceiling. I just forgot how frustrated he gets me,” Hecky joked. “But he chose to come here above other clubs.

“He knows how hard he's got to work and everyone can see that today. The message I’ll say to him or any player, you earn the respect of everyone if everyone can see how hard you work and what you're willing to do for the team, then you'll fit in here. But then his athleticism and how he gets on the end of the goal, I’m delighted for him.”

Charlton Athletic manager Nathan Jones told BBC Radio London:

"They scored the first goal - forget the second goal because we were trying to chase the game [and] changed shape - but it's always going to be about the first goal.

"I got let down by a decision of the officials. They then went up the other side and scored and that's my real disappointment.

On what he said to the referee at full time to get shown a yellow card:

"I said, I'm going to come in and see you, [with] my arms at my side, no dissent, nothing at all about being booked. It's easy for them to do pretty much what they want.

"They can cost us a game or make decisions that contribute heavily to us losing, but I'm the one that gets punished and double punished. I'll go in and get clarity because I have no idea why I've been booked."