PL Ipswich Town (h) post match thread

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Delap was on a mission to crock every City player, did he escape a booking?

He should have had a red 'cos the 'tackle' on Akanji in the first half was led by his elbow. He was very much like that when he played over the road, and occasionally crossed the line that took him into 'plain thuggery'!

 

[Vicmeldrew666]

Great to see Rico Lewis getting plaudits in the post match thread.
I think he may have dodged a bullet by not being included in the England squad this summer by waistcoat!

 

[eyalluvitt]

He should have had a red 'cos the 'tackle' on Akanji in the first half was led by his elbow. He was very much like that when he played over the road, and occasionally crossed the line that took him into 'plain thuggery'!

A Hulk Hogan style clothesline and he wasn’t even spoken too, talk about biting the hand that fed you

 

[KS55]

3 goals for the LEAGUE 2 Tap in Merchant!

Savinho excellent and KDB masterful.

Really nice of Txiki and Pep to give Gundo a year off on the beach sipping martinis so he can recharge his batteries!

Hope Kova's fine.. nothing major. Rico was excellent!

Get in!!

I was so pleased that Gundog got on the pitch. A proper welcome back.

 

[Inca Roads Bert]

This guy.

Exactly.
The man of the Match.
Erling wasn't bad either, nor Savinho.

But, why was Idris Elba moonlighting as a ref?

 

[KS55]

Starting to sound like a broken record now but:

Lewis was absolutely magnificent.

For me, Rico is the best player under 20 in England and is making a case for the best young player in Europe at present, full stop.

He has come an awful long way in the last 18 months. Superb.

 

[mimicmickmickdoyle]

Good win. Hardly a competitive game of football though. I actually thought Savinho had a quiet afternoon, particularly in the second half. He was right in front of us and kept rubbing his knee. Maybe still a niggle. Thought everyone played well but Kev, Erling and Rico stood out. Ipswich fans were loud. Sat in 101 I felt like the only one singing. It was very quiet and yet more season ticket holders missing from last season. Hope Kova is ok.

Thought the atmosphere was absolute shite. If it wasn't for the South stand who weren't that great it would have been totally embarrassing. Ipswich fans took the piss and rightly so.The other 3 stands should be ashamed, we're champions for fuck sake.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

There is a guy sitting in a van here wearing a rag shirt and a MAGA hat. Where do I start?

Double ****.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Hope that referee never gets a City game again. Blatant cheat.
Took ages for him to give the penalty, and he ‘missed’ the other 2 or 3.

Doubt he is a cheat.
More incompetent. Looked like he was in awe after coming in as the replacement ref.
Could and should have given a penalty to them and I don't think he was helped out by VAR.
Grealish penalty/diving incident should have led to a penalty to us and thus a rescinding of the yellow card

 

[skillman]

Eerrrrllliiiinnnnggggggg

 

[ThreesKompany]

Thought Doku not so great- not much end product. Tried hard though

Rico finishes that one and day is much different.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Thought the atmosphere was absolute shite. If it wasn't for the South stand who weren't that great it would have been totally embarrassing. Ipswich fans took the piss and rightly so.The other 3 stands should be ashamed, we're champions for fuck sake.

I’m assuming you were there. I can only talk about what I see. The front of 101 now has almost no regular season ticket holders. Loads of foreign youngsters whose idea of being a fan is very different from us FOC’s. Instead of singing they would rather watch the game through the lense of their phone. I’m not going to criticise as what we are seeing is the future. You see a great many posts on here about the club pricing traditional fans out of attending. Well the evidence is there that it is happening and is already well advanced. A blue wall in the new north stand? Good luck with that.

 

[CTID1977]

 

[Paul1970]

10th hat trick for us in barely over two seasons, and the first hat trick of this season, in the second game.

23rd of his career at 24 years of age.

Edit: And my FPL captain (along with a billion other managers). ;-)

Triple captained him

 

[Damanino]

Its about 67 goals for Haaland in about 70 PL games lol
british media last season when he had a dry spell and Nunez scored a few in a row stated dippers got the better striker. well and best CB, keeper, RB, winger etc.

also how much it hurts Carragher to see Haaland scoring all these goals while Nunez is a headache for them:D
and he cost them 60m +20m of which most of the bonuses were paid already to Benfica.

 

[uwerosler28]

Its about 67 goals for Haaland in about 70 PL games lol
british media last season when he had a dry spell and Nunez scored a few in a row stated dippers got the better striker. well and best CB, keeper, RB, winger etc.

also how much it hurts Carragher to see Haaland scoring all these goals while Nunez is a headache for them:D
and he cost them 60m +20m of which most of the bonuses were paid already to Benfica.

Lets be fair the media never once said last season Nunez was better than Haaland.

 

[failsworthblueboy]

Yeah that could've been a pen

Their player knew it was coming but I think he exaggerated the contact more than he needed to try to make sure, so it looked like he was looking for it. Had he just let it play out naturally, it probably gets given.

He needs to look out for that, as you say, that's a couple of times.

Fair enough mate, but I reckon if that happens the other way round the cry would be, 100% penalty.

 

[BrianW]

Considering Haaland is a League 2-level player who only scores tap-ins, I reckon he's pretty decent.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Great to see Rico Lewis getting plaudits in the post match thread.
I think he may have dodged a bullet by not being included in the England squad this summer by waistcoat!

If we had spunked 50M on him from someone like Palace I couldn’t be more impressed with him, forget how good he was with him being the invisible man last season

 

[HelloCity]

Lets be fair the media never once said last season Nunez was better than Haaland.

Some people in the media said they’d prefer him when they were both signed.