Report: Town 1-1 Blades

By Aston
January 14 2006

Ipswich Town let a one goal lead slip but still managed to get a point against the high flying Blades at Portman Road earlier today.

The first half of todays game saw some good football but very little in the way of chances, the first real effort on goal came after 23 minutes, Chris Armstrong fired wide then Paul Ifill had an effort cleared by Jason De Vos.

 

Former Town loanee David Unsworth came close to opening the scoring for the visitors but Shane Supple showed why he is still keeping Lewis Price on the bench when he parried the long range effort to safety.

 

Fabian Wilnis’ effort looked good but went well wide soon after and Ian Westlake brought a save out of Paddy Kenny with his over head effort but neither side could manage a break through before half time.

 

The second period was much more exciting and was worth watching purely for Jimmy Juan’s 54^th minute goal.

 

Phil Jagielka brought down Ian Westlake (who was replaced by Danny Haynes before the free kick was taken) Juan stepped up and fired the ball into the top corner of the net hitting the underside of the bar on the way.

 

Haynes could have made it 2-0 just after the hour mark when he was one-on-one with Sheffield ‘keeper Paddy Kenny but some how the youngster fired wide from about 8 yards.

 

Chris Armstrong headed over for the Blades on 66 minutes and Danny Webber levelled the scores on 77 minutes when he rounded Town ‘keeper Shane Supple and slotted the ball past the two Town defenders between him and the net to make it 1-1.

 

Kabba could have won it in the final moments but his shot sailed mere inches wide of the post and both sides finished with a point.

 

Town Squad: Shane Supple, Fabian Wilnis, Jason De Vos, Richard Naylor, Scott Barron, Gavin Williams, Jimmy Juan, Owen Garvan, Ian Westlake, Darren Currie, Alan Lee.

Subs: Lewis Price, Matt Richards, Jim Magilton, Luis Sito, Danny Haynes.

 

Sheffield Utd: P Kenny, D Geary, L Bromby, C Morgan, D Unsworth, P Ifill, M Tonge, P Jagielka, C Armstrong, N Shipperley, D Webber.

Subs: G Flitcroft, S Kabba, A Quinn, R Kozluk, N Montgomery.

	Town 1	Sheffield United 1
Goals	Juan (54)	Webber (77)
Yellow Cards	Juan	Morgan Geary
Red Cards	None	None
Subs	Haynes on for Westlake (54) Magilton on for Garvan (83) Sito on for Barron (87)	Kabba on for Ifill (64) Quinn on for Armstrong (76) Montgomery on for Webber (83)
Possession	50%	50%
Shots	7	10
Corners	2	6
Fouls	15	15
Attendance: 23,794

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