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Brooks for Fraser. Fair enough for the balance of the side. But others are clearly tiring.

Sod

Crumbs! We need that third

Before that when Fraser didn;t get his foul, he should be getting off his rear and tracking back. Not lying there spreading his arms out in a huff. They got a break from that.

OOOOh.. why not pass to AA!?

Bit of curl on AA's effort there. ah, big deflection.

Ooooh... nearly from Bree's freekick in there.

Adams gave a stern look back as the ball was pinged forward far too hard. Seconds later we battle and win in the middle. AA and Che part of the attack, and swithc over. Adams not shot not cross bothers no one. Momentum made him try, when a trade mark cut back more of an option. Wilcox thing as posted above. Disputing a buy out clause. Wilcox has resigned apparently.

Ball not falling for Bree a few times there. They chose not to take advantage a couple of times.

Martin will be pleased with that. The usual bags of possession. Created a decent number of chances, if not lots of near ones. And clinical with the ones we got on target for a change. Stephens very mobile, picking up KWP's attacking position, supporting the midfield and also picking up some of Smallbone's attacking tasks. That will be pretty knackering, so he may be one of the ones to come off later. After Ipswich's goal, I think we've settled into the changes well. Also without Will, we've given up some of that trying to create passing angles through the middle. Honestly, it's not been clicking for a little while. Stephens isn;pt the best at it either, so with him playing, RM has made a fair enough call in by passing it. Besides, they've not played a high line, so we've been able to get the ball out more directly to the flanks anyway. Aribo manages himself really well. I moan about the times he passes back. I'm wondering if he looks at the forward pass, realises he'd have to race forward to get on the end of a return for not much advantage, and picks another option. Because he has been mobile. He has raced into good positions. And his strength paid off in weighted passes, holding players off for assists and tackles at the back. With an experienced line up, Fraser and Stu have linked up well. Well enough that Ipswich were worried about it, allowing Stu to instead pick out AA on the other flank for the goal. Good to see Che do what he always does, and get hsi head down and try. So a good reward for that. Again, this set up suits him a bit more anyway. He's got Aribo, Downes and Stephens to provide steel behind him, and AA and Fraser scaring their full backs. Leaving Stu to pick out osme nice passes, and pick up the bit and pieces. Stamina will be interestign second half. Both teams have put a lot in, and rely on their work rate. Subs could well make quite a bit of difference today. Outr bench is strong, but we went backwards last time out with it.

bah. Offside. Stephens looking for the pass, but not aware of where the line was behind him. Decent move that.

Decent AA shot there. But the build up is what RM was looking for. That was Stephense centrally, moving into space from his inverted position and delivering a direct ball. Ipswich's line isn;t that high, so better AA and Fraser on the end of those than Sule.

We had someone runnign in on the back post too. Had it been more of a miss, he would have got it. 🙂

Soooo close....

There's been a bit of that today. I don;t mind if it's to retain possession. I do mind when they don;t even look for a more forward pass, and play it safe. Because that led to an Ipswich attack.

Straight at Baz. Yes, they had loads of space. But our defence has dealt with this scenario countless times. Elsewhere, RM will be putting money into the potty mouth jar later for swearing to the nation.

Curled in... just 10 feet above where it should have been.

On the other hand, when the ball came back out form their box, he didn;t take up a poistion to offer an option. Perhaps he knew it was going to be passed in, but still.

Good recovery from Joe. We're not going to be such a crisp passing unit today. So when we invariably do lose it, we have to fight to be getting it back. Just what he did.

Oh, that was lovely. Our other Goal Machine!

Corner. Joe a handful. May have hit that one earlier, but good touch for hsi assist.

Yeees!!! That didn;t take long. Goal Machine Che!

Oooft....