Ipswich Town left it late to beat relegated Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough and move closer to the automatic promotion places.<\/p>\n
Ivan Azon scored 12 minutes from time, before top scorer Jack Clarke wrapped up victory from the penalty spot with his 13th goal of the season three minutes later.<\/p>\n
The win extended Ipswich’s unbeaten run to six games and moved the Tractor Boys up a place to third, within two points of Middlesbrough in second – and Kieran McKenna’s side have a game in hand. <\/p>\n
Wednesday pushed them hard and threatened to record their first home point of 2026, before their resolve was broken. <\/p>\n
Ipswich dominated possession and chances, and Pierce Charles saved shots from the bright Clarke and Anis Mehmeti.<\/p>\n
The Northern Ireland goalkeeper also kept out an effort from outside the box from Dan Neil.<\/p>\n
Wednesday are slowly improving under head coach Henrik Pedersen, and Sean Fusire saw a shot saved by keeper Christian Walton.<\/p>\n
Wednesday’s on-loan Luton striker Jerry Yates had a couple of shots blocked, while Gabriel Otegbago hit an effort wide.<\/p>\n
Azon replaced George Hirst on 66 minutes and the Spaniard should have scored when he flicked his shot wide when through one-on-one with Charles.<\/p>\n
He made amends three minutes later, in the 78th minute, when he finished smartly into the bottom corner from Ben Johnson’s cross.<\/p>\n
Wednesday were beaten, despite all their efforts, and Clarke made sure of the points nine minutes from time when Fusire fouled him in the box and he dispatched the spot-kick.<\/p>\n
It was a satisfying end to a difficult week for Ipswich, after conceding a controversial 96th-minute penalty in their midweek draw at Stoke, and Leif Davis’ three-match ban for clashing with Leicester’s Caleb Okoli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ipswich Town left it late to beat relegated Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough and move closer to the automatic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-475699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}