Deon Burton came agonisingly close-mouthed to scoring on his Charlton debut and then backed his renewed cudgel to manage clear of relegation. The striker, 32, has joined the Addicks on allowance from Sheffield Wednesday with a witness to making the make off permanent in January. And he was only denied a pipedream debut by a wonderful save from Southampton goalkeeper Kelvin Davis as Charlton had to mediate for a goalless deadlock at the Valley. Charlton debutant Deon Burton (right) battles it out with Saints' Alex Pearce in Saturday's 0-0 take Burton scheme he had hit the bag with his acrobatic over-head rebound approaching then end of the first-half, only for Davis to come in a heroic stop. Burton said: "I intention I had scored.
On another lifetime it would have gone in. "I positive results have not gone Charlton's point of late but the team has stuck together and we got a result. "We are all working actively and this denouement is a building block for us. 'A place is somewhere to quail from, along with the clean-sheet. "I'm inevitable we'll be okay. 'If we played similarly to we did on Saturday, there is no reason why we cannot get something against Blackpool this weekend.
" Charlton edged the first-half and almost took a first-minute tip but Mark Hudson was unfit to control his exertion on target. Keith Gillespie then drew a threadlike save from Davis before the goalkeeper denied Hameur Bouazza and then Burton in shrewd succession. Charlton nurse along Hameur Bouazza is challenged by Chris Perry Southampton looked better in the second-half and Charlton attendant Nicky Weaver needed to be active to preclude from David McGoldrick and then replacement Matthew Paterson.
But Charlton held on to give caretaker straw boss Phil Parkinson his in front notion and their oldest clean-sheet in 13 matches. Southampton, in the meanwhile have not conceded a end in their last two matches and Davis has urged his team-mates to reproduce that conceive at home. Davis said: "I'm thrilled with my personal play but a little disappointed we didn't get all three points. "I had a few saves to produce and we had our chances but unfortunately we could not arc them into goals or points.
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