Charlton get the chance to put Monday’s disappointing second half performance behind them against Paul Tisdale’s Exeter side at The Valley on Saturday.

The Grecians will be missing influential midfielder Liam Sercombe, as well as strikers John O’Flynn and Guillem Bauza.

First choice keeper Artur Krysiak is fit again and Tisdale will have to decide whether to reinstate him ahead of former Chelsea youngster, Lenny Pidgeley.

Chris Powell is likely to be without Danny Green, Paul Benson and Gary Doherty again. One player who will be particularly fired up for the game is former Plymouth player, Bradley Wright-Phillips.

The worrying thing about Monday night was Powell’s seeming inability to change the game once it became a hoofball contest after the break. The manager was critical of the way his team resorted to playing long balls at his Thursday press conference but he showed no sign of remonstrating with them from the sidelines on Monday.

He was impassive when, surely, he should have been berating his players if they were not adhering to his game plan?

Gary Megson reacted quickly when the tide was against his team, making a tactical substitution after just 22 minutes.

Powell merely swapped Jason Euell for Paul Hayes after 78 minutes, a move that was never going to change the course of the game.

Powell’s substitutions are often baffling, normally too late and frequently ineffective. Public criticism of the players is hardly going to enhance the spirit in the camp either.

Powell is on a learning curve but has precious little experience in his backroom staff to draw on. Alex Dyer and Damien Matthew are both new to first team positions. The manager needs to learn fast or risk seeing his team’s promising start ebb away again.

Tisdale will play with three central midfielders as well as three central defenders, flanked by two wing-backs. The Grecians are not a physical outfit like Wednesday, they play a neat, controlled passing game though they will be lacking firepower.

It’s a game that Charlton should win but Powell will need to get to grips with Tisdale’s unorthodox formation.

Charlton could start with this line-up:

Hamer; Solly, Taylor, Morrison, Wiggins; Wagstaff, Stephens, Hollands, Jackson; Hayes, Wright-Phillips.

Subs: Sullivan, Cort, Hughes, Pritchard, Euell.

Lancashire’s Paul Tierney will be the man in the middle.

Three points will be expected but they be harder to come by than many think.