{"id":202293,"date":"2025-12-20T17:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202293\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:53:07","slug":"ipswich-town-3-1-sheffield-wednesday-tractor-boys-move-into-third-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202293\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich Town 3-1 Sheffield Wednesday – Tractor Boys move into third place"},"content":{"rendered":"

Owls fans are desperate for some pre-Christmas cheer, with former Newcastle owner Mike Ashley among those bidding to bring the club out of administration.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ipswich nearly gifted Wednesday the lead when Dara O’Shea was robbed by Jamal Lowe and his shot was cleared off the line by Kipre. <\/p>\n

The home supporters were not happy and their mood nearly worsened when Liam Palmer lobbed the ball just over the bar from Christian Walton’s poor throw-out.<\/p>\n

Ipswich rallied and Marcelino Nunez headed just wide after Wednesday goalkeeper Pierce Charles saved Jens Cajuste’s shot and Philogene saw a scissors kick hit the post.<\/p>\n

The Tractor Boys made the breakthrough on 33 minutes when Kipre rose to head home Leif Davis’ corner from close range to the relief of the home crowd.<\/p>\n

Ivan Azon, who replaced the injured George Hirst early on, glanced a header wide before Philogene made it 2-0 on the hour. <\/p>\n

Cajuste drove from deep and found Nunez, who slipped the ball to Philogene at the near post and he scored his eighth goal of the season, all at Portman Road.<\/p>\n

To their credit, Wednesday kept going and Cooper rifled home when Ipswich failed to clear Barry Bannan’s free-kick.<\/p>\n

But Ipswich bagged their third three minutes from time when Azor Matusiwa intercepted the ball and Clarke applied the finish.<\/p>\n

It might have been four, only for Charles and Gabriel Otegbayo combined to deny Azon in the sixth minute of stoppage time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Owls fans are desperate for some pre-Christmas cheer, with former Newcastle owner Mike Ashley among those bidding to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-202293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}