How Nathan Jones Turned Southampton’s Collapse into Charlton’s Championship Surge—The Untold Story
Yet it wasn’t always this way. Jones has earned a reputation for attritional football, but his first Luton side were genuinely exciting. Playing an expansive 4-4-2 diamond formation with future Premier League full-backs Jack Stacey and James Justin bombing up the flanks, the Hatters won automatic promotion from League Two in 2017-18 by scoring 94 goals – some 15 more than anyone else in the division. He has shown he’s adaptable, tactically, but recognised at Charlton a need for solid foundations before, in his words, putting the roof on.
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