Rochdale 2-3 Charlton Athletic: result and report

League One · Saturday 17 September 2011

Result

Rochdale 2-3 Charlton Athletic

League One · Saturday 17 September 2011, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

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Rochdale 2-3 Charlton Athletic: match report

Rochdale lost to Charlton Athletic 2-3 in the League One on Saturday 17 September 2011. The half-time score was 0-2.

René Higuita opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Rochdale's goals came from Ashley Grimes (57') and David Ball (60'). Charlton Athletic scored through René Higuita (20'), Rhoys Wiggins (44') and René Higuita (80').

Discipline: Rochdale received 3 yellow cards; Charlton Athletic received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Rochdale were 18th on 8 points from 8 and Charlton Athletic 1st on 17 points from 7. Rochdale went on to finish that season 24th with 39 points, and Charlton Athletic 1st with 101.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Rochdale win, 0 draws and 1 for Charlton Athletic.

Going into the match Rochdale's last five read W-W-L-L-L and Charlton Athletic's W-D-W-D-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Goal · René HiguitaCharlton Athletic · 0-1
  • 31'Yellow card · J. KennedyRochdale
  • 40'Yellow card · Joe WiddowsonRochdale
  • 44'Goal · Rhoys WigginsCharlton Athletic · 0-2
  • 57'Goal · Ashley GrimesRochdale · 1-2
  • 60'Goal · David BallRochdale · 2-2
  • 76'Yellow card · David BallRochdale
  • 80'Goal · René HiguitaCharlton Athletic · 2-3
  • 82'Yellow card · Johnnie JacksonCharlton Athletic

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Rochdale 1, draws 0, Charlton Athletic 1.

Team news

Rochdale line-up

Stephen Darby, Marcus Holness, Pim Balkestein, Jason Kennedy, Gary Jones, Ashley Grimes, Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro, David Ball, J. Kean, Joe Widdowson, Andrew Tutte

Charlton Athletic expected line-up

Scott Carson, Luke Young, Souleymane Diawara, Alex Song, Zhi Zheng, Darren Ambrose, Matt Holland, Darren Bent, Hermann Hreidarsson, Talal El Karkouri