CHRIS POWELL says Charlton are going to have to produce something special to get the better of Huddersfield Town at The Valley on Monday.
It’s an opportunity for the Addicks to carve out an eight-point lead over Lee Clark’s side.
But their manager said: “We’re going to have to really be at our maximum.
“We must make sure we’re right in both an attacking and defensive sense because we’re coming up against one of the strongest teams in the league.
“I realise the importance of the game. But I don't want us going overboard, because it is only the end of November.
“We’ve negotiated many tough tests this season and now we face a Huddersfield side who have been exceptional.
“I’m sure they would give up that run they’ve had in the league to have won the one game they really wanted to win (last season’s play-off final).
“But it looks as if they have regrouped and got straight back on it.
“They are an attacking team on the front foot, very similar to ourselves, who look to get footholds in matches very early on.
“Jordan Rhodes is in superlative form but we have a striker in Bradley Wright-Phillips that the same applies to.
“Huddersfield have got that feeling within the camp which you get from winning games together.
“You feel that whatever happens you can call on any member of the team to play their part.
“They’ve got unity and that’s been bolstered by Lee Clark’s commitment to the club after he was linked with Leicester (where Powell was coach before becoming Charlton manager last January).
“He’s popular and that kind of thing galvanises the whole club because the players get a lift and then give that back to you.
“We’ve got to be positive. We’ve got to take it to them and make The Valley a bit of a cauldron, and the fans can play a big part.
“This one game won’t make our season. Of course we want to continue our good run and be the ones to stop the run that Huddersfield have had.
“But we will move on from this game regardless of what happens because we’ve got 26 after it.
“It’s another match for us to prove to ourselves what we can do.
“Regardless of what happens by 10 o’clock on Monday night there is a long way to go.
“We’ve got positive results against MK Dons and the two Sheffield clubs which shows we are capable of beating the teams in and around us.”
Stevenage, 1-0 winners at Broadhall Way, are the only side to have got the better of Charlton in League I this season.
And Powell’s men go into the contest aiming for a sixth successive win after beating Carlisle, Wycombe, Hartlepool, Preston and Brentford.
The loss of influential skipper Johnnie Jackson with a hamstring injury is a blow, but Powell has on-loan QPR midfielder Hogan Ephraim to call on.
