Ben Garner praised the work ethic of his Charlton side as they maintained their impressive home record with a 3-0 victory over 10-man Portsmouth.

The Addicks are unbeaten at The Valley in their nine matches in all competitions there this season, with 16 of their 22 league goals scored in SE7.

Charlton were 2-0 ahead at the interval. Ryan Inniss showed strength and desire to climb over Portsmouth centre-back Michael Morrison and head in Scott Fraser’s cross after 17 minutes.

Corey Blackett-Taylor, a superb outlet down the left, drove through the legs of Joshua Griffiths in the 31st minute after his run was picked out by Charlie Kirk.

Referee Dean Whitestone sent off Marlon Pack for a second bookable offence in the 66th minute. The impressive Fraser, fouled by the Portsmouth midfielder, provided extra punishment from the resultant free-kick with Eoghan O’Connell guiding his header beyond Griffiths.

It is the first time that Charlton have won back-to-back matches under Garner and moved them up to 10th in the table.

He said: “It was a fantastic result and I’m really pleased with the performance. Every player was incredible in terms of our team ethic, our work-rate and togetherness and then some real quality in possession.

“I’m never completely satisfied. We could’ve been better in the last 10 minutes and managed the ball a lot better 11 v 10, but I’ll let the players off this evening and deal with it later in the week.

“We’re disappointed with where we were, we’ve just had too many draws. Even the games here that’s four wins and three draws – we could easily have won all seven and probably should have won a couple more. We’re hunting down now. We have to win games.

“Corey was excellent. The pleasing thing was the way he worked for the team – if he does that I’ll forgive everything else.”

Portsmouth are winless in four league matches.

Manager Danny Cowley said: “It was a tough night for us. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. We’ve picked up a sending off and three injuries to boot.

“We concede from a set-piece which is disappointing and then we concede quite quickly again. We have a counter-attack and it should be a really good moment for us, we lose the ball and they are very athletic in that moment, transitioned through us and scored.

“Then you have to risk a little bit and that makes you more vulnerable against an athletic team who are good in the one-v-one moments.

“In the last three games we’ve probably not found the same level of performance and, as a result, we’ve not got the outcomes we’ve wanted.

“We’ll stay level. We didn’t get too high when we had a really good start. We won’t get too low now. We’ll be disappointed tonight but we’ll learn and we’ll move forward.”