Massive Part Of It – Ex-EFL Striker Picks Out Charlton Athletic Star For Praise | OneFootball

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Ex-EFL striker Sam Parkin thinks that Charlton Athletic defender Lloyd Jones has played a massive part in helping Nathan Jones to turn around the Addicks’ form in League One in recent months.

Charlton had a difficult start to the season, but with Nathan Jones’ guidance in the dugout, they have managed to bounce back and are now sitting fifth in the league table and are strongly tipped to be in the playoffs at the end of the campaign.

Centre-back Lloyd Jones, 29, who missed part of the season due to an injury, has started 27 games for the Addicks, being regularly favoured by his boss.

Charlton have lost only two out of their last 17 games and Parkin pointed out that defender Lloyd Jones has started all 17 of them after returning from the injury he suffered.

Parkin is of the view that Lloyd Jones’ presence in the Addicks backline has played a massive part in their turnaround in form and has sparked genuine hopes of promotion up to the Championship this season.

“Lloyd Jones, someone I would point to, got injured against Birmingham; I think it was in autumn time”, Parkin said on What The EFL (37:50).

“He has been back for 17 games and they have only two defeats, Rotherham and Birmingham.

“So he is a massive part of it [Charlton’s success of late].”

Charlton, in fifth, have secured 59 points from 34 games and with 12 more games remaining, Nathan Jones will want no big slip-ups in the coming months.

The Addicks head to fourth placed Stockport County at the weekend, before then playing two teams they will expect to beat in the shape of Crawley Town and Wigan Athletic.