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  • Ipswich relegated after defeat to Newcastle

    Ipswich relegated after defeat to Newcastle

    Ipswich have been relegated from the Premier League following a 3-0 defeat to Newcastle on Saturday.

    The result, their 21st league defeat of the season, means the Tractor Boys remain in 18th place and 15 points away from safety with only four games to go.

    The club follow Leicester and Southampton back to the Championship after lasting just one season in the top flight.

    Ipswich travelled to Newcastle needing a win and 17th-placed West Ham to suffer defeat at Brighton.

    West Ham were beaten 3-2 late on by the Seagulls, but Ipswich fell short at St James’ Park with 10 men after Ben Johnson was sent off in the first half.

    Ipswich’s fairytale rise to the Premier League had captured the hearts of football romantics after their successive promotions from League One and the Championship.

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    Head coach Kieran McKenna, 38, had earned plaudits for Ipswich’s attacking style during their surge up the divisions after his appointment in 2021.

    But the former Manchester United assistant coach was unable to preserve Ipswich’s top-flight status.

    “We’ve been through it the last few weeks, we knew it was pretty likely. At the end, we have fallen short, but it’s not for lack of effort,” McKenna said.

  • Forest beat strugglers Ipswich to bolster top-four bid

    Forest beat strugglers Ipswich to bolster top-four bid

    Nottingham Forest underlined their top-four credentials with a comfortable Premier League win over relegation-threatened Ipswich at Portman Road.

    The result moves Forest just a point behind second-placed Arsenal – who face Chelsea on Sunday – and ever closer to Champions League football next term.

    On an afternoon when Nuno Espirito Santo celebrated his 50th top-flight match in charge of Forest, his side ruthlessly exposed Ipswich’s defensive frailties in a devastating seven-minute period during the first half.

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    Nikola Milenkovic opened the scoring for the visitors with a rising shot from eight yards after home forward Liam Delap had inadvertently nodded the ball into the Serbia defender’s path.

    And just over two minutes later Forest doubled their lead, as the Tractor Boys imploded.

    Elliot Anderson picked out Anthony Elanga down the right and the winger was allowed to run completely unchallenged from just inside the Ipswich half before dispatching a low effort into the far corner from 15 yards out.

    Some shambolic home defending contributed to Elanga’s second and Forest’s third.

  • EPL: Gakpo scores twice as Liverpool beat Ipswich

    EPL: Gakpo scores twice as Liverpool beat Ipswich

    Cody Gakpo scored twice as Liverpool comfortably saw off struggling Ipswich to maintain their six-point advantage at the top of the Premier League.

    The Reds scored three goals in the first half to effectively end the game as a contest, and even looked like going eight clear with a game in hand until 10-man Arsenal beat Wolverhampton Wanderers. 

    Nevertheless Liverpool did what they had to do to stay on course for a second league title in six years, with Gakpo scoring in either half, while Dominik Szoboszlai and Mohamed Salah also netted.

    Ipswich were thrashed 6-0 at home by reigning champions Manchester City in their last outing and arrived at Anfield clearly determined to avoid a similar scoreline.

    They barely offered any attacking threat as they sat deep to try to frustrate Liverpool, but their resistance lasted just 11 minutes as an incisive attack by the Reds opened them up, Ibrahima Konate threading a ball through to Szoboszlai, who drove a shot in at the near post.

    Salah has accounted for the majority of Liverpool’s goals at Anfield, so it was no surprise when he got on the scoresheet 10 minutes before the break, firing into the roof of the net from a tight angle.

    A third duly arrived just before the break when Szoboszlai’s shot was parried and Gakpo was on hand to turn in the loose ball.

    The second half was largely a non-event with the damage already done, but Gakpo added a fourth when he powered in a header.

    The travelling fans were given something to celebrate in stoppage time when Jacob Greaves headed home a consolation from a corner.

    Ipswich remain 18th, level on points with Wolves in 17th.

  • EPL: Mbeumo scores winner as Brentford beat Ipswich in thriller

    EPL: Mbeumo scores winner as Brentford beat Ipswich in thriller

    Bryan Mbeumo scored a 96th-minute winner as Brentford beat Ipswich Town in a seven-goal thriller in the Premier League.

    Mbeumo’s left-footed cross into the box evaded everyone and nestled into the bottom corner as the Bees remain unbeaten at home.

    Substitute Liam Delap scored to make it 3-3 with four minutes remaining as he met Leif Davis’ cross and produced a delicate flicked finish past Brentford goalkeeper Mark Flekken.

    Brentford came from two goals down and looked set for victory as Harry Clarke was sent off for the away side having picked up two yellow cards.

    Two goals in three minutes from Sam Szmodics and George Hirst had given the Tractor Boys hope of their first victory since returning to the division.

    Kalvin Phillips’ threaded pass found Hirst who passed to Szmodics and the Ireland forward finished from 15 yards out.

    Hirst then fired across Flekken as Kieran McKenna’s side took control.

    However, their lead was wiped out before the break thanks to Yoane Wissa’s 44th minute goal and an unfortunate Clarke own goal in the space of two minutes.

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    Wissa found the back of the net from Vitaly Janelt’s cross and then got a shot away from a tight angle with Clarke getting the final touch and sending the ball into his own net.

    Clarke brought down Keane Lewis-Potter in the box six minutes after the restart and Bryan Mbeumo scored the resulting penalty to make it 3-2 to the home side.

    Clarke then fouled Lewis-Potter in the 69th minute as Ipswich were reduced to 10 men.

    Delap scored to level matters, but Mbeumo’s late strike means Ipswich are still winless in the Premier League after nine games.

    Incredibly, the away side almost rescued a point when Delap crashed an effort off the post with seconds left to play.

  • EPL: Everton beat Ipswich 2-0 in delayed kickoff

    EPL: Everton beat Ipswich 2-0 in delayed kickoff

    Everton extended their unbeaten run to four Premier League matches with a 2-0 victory against winless Ipswich at Portman Road.

    Iliman Ndiaye gave the Toffees an early lead when he capitalised on some sloppy Ipswich defending to fire home from close range for his third goal of the season.

    Some more poor defending allowed Dwight McNeil to pick out Michael Keane, who blasted home a left-foot shot from a tight angle to double Everton’s advantage before half-time.

    Dominic Calvert-Lewin spurned a number of chances to make the result more comfortable for the Toffees either side of the break.

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    Ipswich were full of effort and endeavour but struggled to create many clear openings.

    It is Everton’s first away win for 16 games in all competitions, a run stretching back to last December.

    Defeat means Ipswich set a new club record of eight games without a win to start a top-flight season.

    BBC Sports

  • EPL: Ipswich draw Brighton 0-0 at Amex Stadium

    EPL: Ipswich draw Brighton 0-0 at Amex Stadium

    Unbeaten Brighton were left frustrated after being held to a goalless Premier League draw by Ipswich at the Amex Stadium.

    The home side dominated possession but clear cut chances were at a premium and it was the visitors who came closest to finding a winner on the south coast.

    Liam Delap broke forward early in the second half and, with no team-mates up in support, just kept running and burst into the box, but his fierce shot across goal came back off the post.

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    It would have been a goal completely against the run of play with Fabian Hurzeler’s side enjoying much the better of the play in the first half and the start of the second.

    The closest they came to a goal, though, was 10 minutes before the break when Georginio Rutter ran onto Yankuba Minteh’s cute pass and worked space in the box but saw his shot parried by Ipswich goalkeeper Arijanet Muric.

    It fell to Kaoru Mitoma six yards out and the winger looked certain to score but Muric sprung up to repel the rebound as well.

    The Seagulls continued to press for the decisive goal, with Evan Ferguson curling narrowly wide late on, but it would not come.

    Brighton stay unbeaten with two wins and two draws from their first four games, while Ipswich are still searching for their first win back in the Premier League.

  • EPL: Ipswich host Liverpool on Premier League opening weekend

    EPL: Ipswich host Liverpool on Premier League opening weekend

    Newly promoted Ipswich will host Liverpool while champions Manchester City are away to Chelsea on the opening weekend of the new Premier League season.

    Ipswich, who are back in the top flight after a 22-year absence, will play on Saturday, 17 August, with City starting their title defence at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, 18 August.

    Manchester United’s game against Fulham at Old Trafford will kick off the campaign on Friday, 16 August.

    Arsenal, who finished runners-up to City last season, are at home to Wolves on the Saturday while fourth-placed Aston Villa have been handed an away game against West Ham on the same day.

    Championship play-off winners Southampton face Newcastle at St James’ Park, Everton host Brighton and Nottingham Forest take on Bournemouth to complete the Saturday fixtures.

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    Brentford welcome Crystal Palace on Sunday and Championship winners Leicester City will host Tottenham on Monday, 19 August.

    Ipswich’s last game in the Premier League was a 5-0 defeat by Liverpool at Anfield on the final day of the 2001-02 season. Their relegation came just a year after the club finished a surprise fifth in the top flight.

    City won a record fourth consecutive English league title in May when they finished two points ahead of Arsenal.

    BBC

  • Ipswich beat Terriers to seal first Premier League place in 20 years

    Ipswich beat Terriers to seal first Premier League place in 20 years

    Ipswich Town soared back into the Premier League for the first time since 2002 by cruising to victory over relegated Huddersfield at an ecstatic Portman Road.

    Wales international Wes Burns gave them a first-half lead, which was doubled by Omari Hutchinson early in the second with a shot from the edge of the box.

    Only needing one point at kick-off to be sure of promotion, Kieran McKenna’s side were focused on doing it in style and much of the game was one-way traffic towards the Huddersfield goal.

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    The result also confirmed that the Terriers, a Premier League side themselves as recently as 2019, will go down to League One for the first time for 12 years.

    BBC