{"id":617138,"date":"2026-04-19T13:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617138\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T13:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:09:10","slug":"ipswich-town-vs-middlesbrough-championship-stats-head-to-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617138\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich Town vs Middlesbrough: Championship stats & head-to-head"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘It’s a penalty – it’s a silly mistake’published at 14:07 BST<\/p>\n

14:07 BST<\/p>\n

FT: Ipswich 2-2 Middlesbrough<\/p>\n

\"\"Ipswich Town<\/a><\/p>\n

Ipswich forward George Hirst, who won Town’s controversial late penalty, told Sky Sports: “It doesn’t matter f I would have got to the ball or not – If you’re a defender you cant make contact in the box like that. He’s pulled me back. it’s a silly mistake and it is a penalty.”<\/p>\n

Asked about ending Boro’s promotion hopes, Hirst added: “I’m not too bothered (about Boro), we focus on ourselves. We showed why we have the best home record in the league, we went 2-1 down and keep pushing, it shows the character we have got.<\/p>\n

“(Promotion) is in our hands, it’s for us to decide.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘It’s a penalty – it’s a silly mistake’published at 14:07 BST 14:07 BST FT: Ipswich 2-2 Middlesbrough Ipswich…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-617138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}