Leeds brought over two thousand fans with them to Portman Road, that's great away support for a midweek match and they were all in buoyant mood after Souleymane Doukara gave them the lead after just twelve seconds of the match!
Everybody associated with Ipswich were shell shocked, especially Jonathan Douglas, whose dillying on the ball had led to the goal, there was the fear of conceding another early one. However, we went on to dominate the match, once we had weathered the first fifteen minutes. The team was actually applauded off at half-time, even though we were still trailing by the odd goal.
Luke Chambers got us back on level terms within five minutes of the restart, heading in a cross from Ryan Fraser. It took until the ninety-second minute for our dominance to finally count and take the lead, securing all three points in the process, (for the second match running the early leavers missed out on the drama). Substitute Brett Pitman headed in another cross from the lively Fraser, to send Leeds home empty handed. It was all that they deserved, having hardly mustered a single attack since taking that twelfth second lead.
After the game United boss Steve Evans slated Ipswich's style of play, accusing us of just playing long balls up to Daryl Murphy, whilst we may have been guilty of that in some games, I thought that our passing football tonight was as good as we've played all season.
Town boss Mick McCarthy gave a good retort to the little fat man “He can talk, can’t he? He certainly gives his jaw some exercise, I don’t know what else but his jaw certainly gets some exercise." - touché!
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| At half-time I asked Crazee to have a photo taken with Tracey, who was celebrating the last day in her forties! We had teased her about being mascot, so this was the next best thing! |
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| Leeds Keeper Marco Silvestri had the worst kicking display I can remember in ages |
The three points lifts us to fifth place in the league table and on a personal level I got up to seventh place in the TWTD's Prediction League table.
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