David Nugent Again!
Middlesbrough went to the top of The Championship table (all be it briefly until Saturday at 5pm), following their two-nil victory at Portman Road in the rearranged Friday night match, which was moved to accommodate the Sky TV cameras.
Ipswich created the better chances in a very entertaining first half and would have gone into the break with the lead, but for a string of decent saves from Boro keeper Dimitrios Konstantopoulos (try getting that on the back of a shirt, luckily he also goes by the name of ‘Dimi!)
The Teessider's took the lead in the fifty-fourth minute when Christian Stuan beat Jonas Knudsen in the air to score with a close range header. From there on in just they looked to have ‘that extra bit’ and controlled the game, that’s not so say we didn’t create any chances of our own.
Twenty minutes later the inevitable happened, Nugent scored from the edge of the area with a shot that took a slight deflection of Tommy Smith before going in off the post - the jammy f**ker. He has never failed to score at Portman Road in eight visits.
On the basis of what I’ve so far this season whoever finishes above Boro will probably win the league, they certainly looked a class act. As for us? The game was a good measure to see how good we really are and in my opinion we just lack a little bit. Perhaps when Ryan Fraser and Teddy Bishop get fit we’ll be more able to compete against the better sides in the division.
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