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Joe Jacobson has admitted that Charlton Athletic will still be dreaming of automatic promotion.

Joe Jacobson has admitted that Charlton Athletic will still be dreaming of automatic promotion as we head into the final two fixtures of the League One season.

Saturday's result marked a pivotal shift in the race for the top two, as Nathan Jones' side dismantled Wycombe Wanderers 4-0 at Adams Park.

For much of the campaign, it had been just Wrexham and the Chairboys competing for that second spot, but Charlton's impressive late-season form has seen them surge right into contention.

Since a 4-2 defeat to Rotherham United in mid-January, they have lost just two of their subsequent 20 games, securing 15 wins along the way. They are the third tier's form team and with a huge clash against the Red Dragons on Saturday, they will still have hopes of getting promoted without the use of the play-offs.

Charlton still eyeing automatic promotion

Speaking exclusively to Football League World about Charlton's hopes for the rest of the season, ex-Wycombe Wanderers defender turned EFL pundit, Joe Jacobson, admitted that the Addicks will still have their eyes firmly set on automatic promotion rather than the play-offs.

"They'll be thinking about the automatic places," Jacobson told FLW.

"If they go and beat Wrexham at the weekend and Wycombe draw, all three teams will be within a couple of points of each other. It’s still really tight, and they’ll be looking at it and thinking, 'We can go and beat Wrexham; we’ve beaten Wycombe away.'

"All of a sudden, the last game of the season comes down to three teams within a point of each other. Wrexham have a tough game against Lincoln, Wycombe have a really tough game against Stockport, and Charlton have a game against Burton, who might be fighting for their lives.

"For a neutral, it’s great - that’s what everyone wants to see, it going down to the last day.

"But if they’re in the play-offs, having won the next couple of games as well, they’re the team everyone is going to want to avoid, because their form since December has been incredible."

Nathan Jones has his eyes set on promotion

Saturday’s crunch clash against Wrexham is Charlton’s biggest game in years, and a win would do wonders for their confidence heading into the final day.

The Racecourse is far from an easy place to go, with Wrexham having lost there just twice all season. Even so, Jones remains fully focused on the task at hand and even aimed a little dig at Phil Parkinson's side ahead of the weekend.

"All we do is take a game as it comes," Jones told Sky Sports via BBC Sport.

"We are not looking at the play-offs, we are not looking at Burton at home on the final game.

"We'll finish, we'll debrief, we'll breathe a little bit and then we'll move forward with Wrexham.

"It's a bumper game, we have to go to the circus and see what we can get."

If they can take three points from their trip to 'the circus', Charlton will be in an excellent position going into the final day - but promotion will still be in the hands of either the Red Dragons or Wycombe come 3rd May.