Last week was dreadful for Charlton. Two home games, two defeats, no goals.
In the space of four days their prospects of making the play-offs changed from being an outside possibility to needing a miracle.
Though not mathematically impossible, the Addicks will probably need to muster 11 wins from their remaining 13 games to scrape in.
Karl Robinson’s side have now gone six games without a win, so they hardly have momentum behind them.
Next up is a trip to Shrewsbury on Tuesday – the third of five consecutive Tuesday fixtures they face.
To make matters worse they picked up more injuries on Saturday.
Patrick Bauer was concussed, Jake Forster-Caskey sustained a hamstring injury, and the impressive Stephy Mavididi had to be stretchered off with a serious looking hamstring problem. Mavididi left The Valley on crutches.
Mavididi may well be out for the rest of the season, whilst Bauer and Forster-Caskey have to be major doubts for the Shrewsbury game.
Here’s what the manager had to say after the Bury game:
”I should have brought Stephy off after 60 minutes, his injury is my fault.
“I know how to work with young kids and the emotion of the game got in the way of the development of a young player.
“It is the first time he has played Saturday-Tuesday-Saturday and I should have taken him off before he got injured.
“Jake (Forster-Caskey) had a hamstring injury and Patrick (Bauer) had concussion. Despite all that, we did enough to win the game.”
The Shrewsbury game is one that Robinson would have expected to take three points from. Now he faces a major job in motivating his depleted squad.