Sammie Szmodics and Liam Delap scored the goals as Ipswich secured their first league win of the season with a 2-1 win at Tottenham
The away end’s explosion of noise and limbs at full time left no question about what this meant to Ipswich. They had waited 22 and a half years for awin and the nagging thought remained, throughout nine minutes of added time, that they might fall just short yet again. But when Aro Muric saved from Dominic Solanke the outcome was virtually assured and what a feather in the cap this was for Kieran McKenna, whose superbly coached side will feel their season has liftoff now.
Minds and legs seemed tired, perhaps not helped by a midweek excursion to Istanbul. Ipswich were sharper and hungrier in the moments that mattered, Omari Hutchinson putting in a phenomenal shift and playing an integral part in Delap’s ultimately decisive finish. It was their day: one that finished with Ed Sheeran, who had played a role in designing the pink kit they debuted here, congratulating the squad in the dressing room.
The Spurs keeper had won that particular duel within two minutes of kick-off, repelling from an angle after the first of numerous Hutchinson sprints made the chance. Soon afterwards Cameron Burgess had headed against the bar, so Tottenham could hardly consider themselves not warned. Szmodics’ intervention should have jolted them into action but instead Ipswich streaked further ahead.
“The first half was pretty much spot-on,” McKenna said. Beyond a Brennan Johnson prod that trickled wide and a Solanke effort that Muric stopped smartly, Spurs’ huff and puff had yielded little.The second half was, on recent evidence, always going to be a different story. Muric tipped over from Son and, from the corner, Solanke’s bundled effort was correctly ruled out for handball by the video assistant referee.
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