PREVIEW | Wycombe Wanderers vs Charlton Athletic - team news, lineups, predictions | OneFootball

Wycombe Wanderers and Charlton Athletic face off this Saturday at Adams Park in the first leg of the two sides' EFL League One play-off semi-final.

Unable to keep up with champions Birmingham and runners-up Wrexham in the automatic promotion hunt, Wycombe ended the regular season with a 1-3 defeat to fellow play-off contenders Stockport County, while Charlton recorded a 3-1 win against Burton Albion on the final matchweek.

The Addicks have had the Chairboys' number so far this season: a 2-1 win at The Valley just before the New Year followed by a 4-0 win at Wycombe's place only last month.

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George Gutteridge (The Wycombe Way): There’s an ominous feeling around Adams Park heading into this year’s play-off campaign. It’s somewhere between cautious optimism and utter disbelief that we even find ourselves in this situation.

The Wanderers faithful would’ve snapped your hand off for a top six finish in the summer of 2024, but it doesn’t feel all that successful when automatic promotion is in your hands with just three games to go.

It’s only when you look at those three games, you realise the task on Wycombe’s hands over the next two weeks or so. Trounced, outfought and outplayed by the three teams also competing for a place in next year’s Championship. I’m not going to mention the Charlton result on Easter Monday, just so I can hold onto a little bit of hope.

Regardless of what happens, it’s been a top season. Wycombe in the League One play-offs was a silly little dream just ten years ago, so naturally we should be over the moon.

Let’s see. Wycombe have (hopefully) three games to create history. Promotion to the second tier, a real possibility for just the second time in the club’s history. That strange feeling could all be forgotten about very soon, or it could be a long summer.

All we can ask is that the lads on the pitch give it absolutely everything they’ve got. What will be, will be. UTW!

Prediction: 1-0

Stuart Court (Cafc Facts and Stats): Charlton enter for the seventh time into the Football League play-offs with 22 points from their last 10 games to take on a Wycombe side who they have done the double over this season including arguably their most impressive performance of the season when they won 4-0 at Adams Park on Easter Monday.

Injury doubts linger over Supporters Player of the Year Lloyd Jones, Luke Berry and Thierry Small, and Charlton fans will be hoping these three are back on Sunday night.

Also Chuks Aneke won’t be available until the second leg of the semi-final due to suspension.

Charlton will hope to evoke memories of when they last secured Championship promotion with an injury time winner against Sunderland six years ago.

The Addicks will need to be at their very best over the next three games, but with Matt Godden on top form with 21 goals this season they have a man that could fire them back into the Championship.

Prediction: 1-2

Predicted lineups

Wycombe Wanderers: Will Norris, Joe Low, Sonny Bradley, Caleb Taylor, Jack Grimmer, Luke Leahy, Xavier Simons, Adam Reach, Daniel Udoh, Richard Koné, Cameron Humphreys

Charlton Athletic: Will Mannion, Kayne Ramsay, Lloyd Jones, Macaulay Gillesphey, Thierry Small, Greg Docherty, Conor Coventry, Josh Edwards, Luke Berry, Tyreece Campbell, Matt Godden

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Wycombe Wanderers ( vs Stockport County 2025-05-03): Will Norris, Jack Grimmer, Sonny Bradley, Caleb Taylor, Adam Reach, Xavier Simons, Alexander Lowry, Luke Leahy, Garath McCleary, Daniel Udoh, Fred Onyedinma

Charlton Athletic ( vs Burton Albion 2025-05-03): Ashley Maynard-Brewer, Kayne Ramsay, Tennai Watson, Macaulay Gillesphey, Alex Mitchell, Josh Edwards, Conor Coventry, Tyreece Campbell, Greg Docherty, Matt Godden, Alex Gilbert

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