CITY boss Glenn Roeder said Derby's late, late equaliser at The Valley on Monday night was not a cause for celebration - though one point rather than three for today's opponents Charlton was obviously a positive.
He told First News: "We cannot affect other peoples' performances or the results that happen, but I'm not stupid enough not to know that one point each in their game against Derby would have suited us more than Charlton getting three points.
"But I don't worry about things you don't have control over like other peoples' results. The only thing that we can affect is our results - I was much more angry and frustrated with the two away results last week because we put in two good performances.
"Both of them came very close to running alongside the Ipswich performance, we won that and then we lost the two away games. We ran Watford ragged for 90 minutes, normally you don't do that for 90 minutes especially away from home and we gave them two early Christmas presents which were of our own making.
"Then we had a performance at Reading who have a fantastic home record, they didn't deserve to win and then the referee helped them."
Roeder refused to attach any extra-special significance to today's match: "Every game's important to me, I don't put anything more on any of them. Every single one this has be hugely important, the next game is the only one you can do anything about.
"We've had to pick ourselves up after the nonsense which happened at Reading last week and we're over that, I've been delighted with how the lads trained this week and they put in three performances in just a week.
"We haven't resorted to just lumping the ball, one touch and get as far away from our goal as possible, there's no future in that for me. I have to enjoy what I'm watching, so it's not just a question of entertaining the fans, I have to be too and that's how I see football. It has to be winning football and the players know that, they've been unlucky that they haven't won three on a spin.
"We don't play the blame game and we don't feel sorry for ourselves, we pick ourselves up and we get on with it."
