Report: SWFC 1-2 Town
By Aston
February 2 2008
Town's search for a win away from Portman Road finally came to an end today after they beat Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 at Hillsborough.
David Norris and Stephen Bywater both made their Town debuts while Nick Colgan and Velice Sumulikoski both starting on the bench.
It started well for Town with former Owl (and Blade) Alan Quinn scoring his first goal for Town since joining Town from Sheffield United after just 4 minutes when he fired home from 20-yards.
9 minutes later Marcus Tudgay levelled the scores when he volleyed home after Graham Kavanagh's shot had been blocked by Alex Bruce. Between the first two goals Wednesday had the bar after Dan Harding deflected Jermaine Johnson's shoot.
Both sides had chances to take the lead before the half time break with Counago, Wright and Quinn all going close for Town while Johnson, Tudgay and Kavanagh all going close for The Owls.
The second half was similar with chances being created by both sides, Norris and Wright for Town and Johnson again for Wednesday.
Despite all the chances being created by Town, Jim Magilton saw it fit to bring on Alan Lee for the final 25 minutes and the decision paid off as Lee scored his 10th goal of the season when he found the back of the net with an overhead kick.
Sheff Wed: Grant, Bullen, Hinds, Beevers, Spurr, Kavanagh, O'Brien, Johnson (Burton 82), Wallwork (Small 58), Tudgay, Showunmi (Clarke 76).
Subs Not Used: Wood, Gilbert.
Booked: Kavanagh.
Goals: Tudgay 13.
Ipswich: Bywater, Wright, Harding, Bruce, De Vos, Quinn (Haynes 85), Norris, Garvan (Sumulikoski 77), Miller, Counago (Lee 65), Walters.
Subs Not Used: Colgan, Naylor.
Goals: Quinn 4, Lee 71.
Attendance: 19,092.
Referee: Colin Webster (Tyne & Wear).
Town are back up to 6th in the table, although could drop to 7th if Wolves beat Watford in the game that's currently on going.
But three points is three points, Leggi how did we play?
Ipswich Town - the pride of anglia
Really impressed with Alan Quinn, he provided an excellent performance as did the brilliant Walters. The report above does'nt tell the same the story as the game Ive just seen, we were never in any real danger of losing this and totally ruled the midfield battles. The one disappointment was Jims selection of Tommy Miller (who was once again nonigsistant) and playing Counago alone up front, who tried for 15 minutes but did'nt get his goal, so gave up, we were crying out for Alan Lee to punish their awful defence. David Norris did'nt do much to be honest, he has to be in the middle (in place of Miller) to outstand I think. Bywater was ok but only really tested once.
Heres my marks:
Bywater 6 (nowt to do)
Wright 6 (rarly tested)
Harding 5 (a few mistakes)
Bruce 6 (never going to be a good C
De Vos 7 (good,for a change)
Norris 6 (did what was asked,nothing outstanding)
Miller 0 (was he there??? GET RID)
Walters 7 (hard working,excellent performance)
Garvan 6 (needs to tackle more imo)
Quinn 8 (really impressed me, looks a quality signing)
Counago 6 (looked good for 15 mins but then failed)
Subs:
Lee 7 (needed him on sooner,he would have punished them more.
Haynes 6 (should have scored one)
A good but freezing day out, for the Ipswich masses who were there in fine vocal support, which could'nt be said for the 'dead' Wednesday support.
Also, we were situated in the 'Carlsberg' stand yet it did'nt sell ale!!!
Shoddy ground
Good luck for the rest of the season though, and cheers for the double
