Report and complimentary game clips from Wednesday’s Sky Bet Championship game at The Den between Millwall and Ipswich Town The Tractor Boys won thanks to goals from Nathan Broadhead, Wes Harding’s own goal, Kieffer Moore, and Ali Al-Hamadi from the penalty spot.
Ipswich defeated struggling Millwall 4-0 to get back to winning ways and move to within three points of the Sky Bet Championship automatic promotion spots.
Despite having only one victory in nine league games, Kieran McKenna’s early season rivals overcame a sluggish start to emerge victorious at The Den.
Ipswich easily won just their second league game of the year behind goals from Nathan Broadhead, Kieffer Moore, a talented loanee from Bournemouth, and Ali Al-Hamadi, who converted a stoppage-time penalty.
In spite of their decline in performance, McKenna’s team only lost twice over that stretch, so the former Manchester United assistant will be hopeful that this victory signals a return to form. On Saturday, they go to Swansea.Ipswich came back to win after a 4-0 loss to struggling Millwall, bringing them to within three points of the Sky Bet Championship automatic promotion spots.
Early season adversaries of Kieran McKenna overcame a slow start to win at The Den despite having only one victory in nine league games.
Thanks to goals from Nathan Broadhead, Kieffer Moore—a gifted Bournemouth loanee—and Ali Al-Hamadi, who scored a stoppage-time penalty, Ipswich triumphed easily in just their second league game of the year.
McKenna’s team only lost twice over that time despite their downturn in performance, so the former Manchester United assistant will be hoping that this win represents a return to form. They are going to Swansea on Saturday.The home team was ahead 1-0. Tom Bradshaw had a chance to make a better play when the Lions countered an Ipswich corner, but the ball got stuck under his feet. Harrison Clarke had to make another save, this time from close range, as Millwall kept up their momentum.
However, despite their domination, Joe Edwards’ team conceded a goal against the run of play around the halfway point of the first half thanks to a precise back-header from Omari Hutchinson’s cross by Broadhead, who put Ipswich ahead.
Not long after, Harding unintentionally diverted Broadhead’s low cross into his own goal, doubling the lead.
With Moore going into the ground and over Sarkic for his third goal in as many games, the points were all but certain at the break.Return to the clear.The second half saw Millwall match their opponents, who had let up on the gas, in a far more balanced contest.
Even so, the home team was unable to overcome Hladky, the former Salford keeper going largely untested after Ipswich had several good chances to extend their lead, including ones from Wes Burns and Conor Chaplin, before refereeConor Chaplin called a foul on substitute Al-Hamadi for a Murray Wallace foul. The AFC Wimbledon transfer in January persevered and scored his team’s first goal.
Although Ipswich’s fortunes appear to be improving, Edwards’ team has only managed to pick up one point from their previous six league games, and as a result of Stoke and Huddersfield’s victories, they are presently 21st in the standings.Apart from averting a Bradshaw moment of comfort.We got off to a good start with the players carrying out a clear strategy, so it’s kind of deja vu.
“Early on, their goalie had to make a few stops. A team like the one from Ipswich can score goals at any time when you play against them, but you can’t allow that (first) goal to happen that way.
“It is a combination of things that throws us, we were feeling in a good place, with momentum and then the wind is taken out of your sails with a poor goal and from there until half time it just unravelled.””To be honest, I believe that night was overdue. According to statistics, we have created more shots and allowed fewer against in the last nine games than we did in the first nine, but that is just how football operates sometimes.
“We have long overdue a night where things went our way; we were clinical and created the defensive moments when needed.
“It was a solid performance all around and a good night’s work.” We dominated the ball for a significant portion of the game, produced some excellent opportunities, and were really clinical when they materialised. In my opinion, we were strong in free play.”
