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Episode 60 - Ipswich earn a draw to spoil the Ruben Amorim welcome party
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Join Rob & Tom as they react to Ipswich’s 1-1 draw with Manchester United. Was it a point gained or two points dropped? The lads share arguments for both as they discuss how Town took advantage of United adapting to a new system, talk through all the game’s big chances and pick out the standout performers.
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Ipswich vs Manchester United: Should It Have Been a Win?
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome back to the daily Ipswich brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. And we are here we are the the day after a point at home against Manchester United. We sat here probably questioning whether it should have been three points rather than one, but a solid point to take all the same. We're going to do our usual Monday run, run through the game, give you our thoughts on how it all went down and how potentially Well, that was a point rather than it was a win. And joining me to go through all that today is Tom. How you doing, mate?
00:00:44
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, good. Thanks Rob. Like you said, but start there. It's funny to be coming out of a game against Manchester United said at home thinking we maybe should have got all three, but we really should
Raw Game Reactions
00:00:54
Tom Crack - Ipswich
have. Let's be honest. But yeah, it's going to be interesting looking back on yesterday's results. Sure.
00:01:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's the quickest turnaround we've ever done, I think, on one of these Monday reaction episodes. are We are recording what? half an hour, 45 minutes after full-time whistle. So it was quite, but yeah one of the late and one of the closest we've we've done before time.
00:01:10
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Give or take you.
00:01:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
So a bit more raw reaction for us. We haven't had time to be swayed by looking at social media and the outcomes.
Match Analysis: Key Players and Dynamics
00:01:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we'll see how it goes. But later on, we're going to pick out some key players and we'll delve into some of the reaction from elsewhere.
00:01:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I'll say start off with your thoughts and Tom, do you want to run me through how you found that game to watch?
00:01:36
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Well, the first, well, the first two minutes were not what we wanted. Me and Rich were saying in the previous of the game last week, how, you know, Portman Rose is going to be rocking and It's been really intimidating place to play for Amorim's team. And they kind of quashed that in the first few few minutes or so. And I really thought we're in we're we're in trouble here because, you know, that atmosphere was almost sucked out of the ground instantly, but did a great job at coming back. I think overall, yeah, like I said, it was start. I really think we should have come with all three points. We had a much better chances.
00:02:07
Tom Crack - Ipswich
on the face of it than United did. I really can't think of many with the exception of their opener really that much is really under the cosh there to be
Opportunities Missed: Ipswich’s Scoring Struggles
00:02:14
Tom Crack - Ipswich
honest. Yeah one of those games where especially for our main man up top Dilap just no matter where he did it just didn't seem to go in this week which is a rarity for him as we're finding but you know We'd like to be at the relegation zone, but a point against, quote unquote, one of the big sides, and they may not be near the top at the moment, but they are on paper, one of the biggest sides in the league. So to get a point and against them at home, I think all in all was good. It's just a shame. We couldn't come where the three considering we were, like I said, the team looking most likely to get those three, but all in all, i'll I'll take the point. Just would like a home win eventually though.
00:02:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think you got you have to take the point, really. It's hard, really, because I want to say it's two points dropped, because I feel like we were the better team and probably had the chances to go and win the game.
00:03:00
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:03:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
But in context of everything in the week leading up to this game and everything, the sort of expectation going into it, it is a point game, because not many people, no one's talked about us all week, have they?
00:03:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's all been about Ruben Hammer, including Even our episodes of the podcast we've done, we've had to focus on that, because that's the talking point, that and say no one's really said a word about us in the build-up this week.
00:03:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's all been about Man United and how is he going to start off a win? how's it How's it all going to line up? We sort of went under all that
Critique of Manchester United’s Performance
00:03:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
considered. It is a point in game, really, because the general consensus was that we would lose this game, and that Rick Manverin would come in and fix Man United in a week, and they would go and steamroll through us and get a good run of games going.
00:03:39
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Mm.
00:03:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
but I actually thought they were, I made the point all week, didn't I, that it's probably a good time to play them. I sort of changed my opinion over the international break about that. And I'm quite quite happy to play them this Thursday and Wally figured it out.
00:03:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it was a bit of a makeshift team, but I don't know about you, but I thought they were really poor. ah but but we We gifted them a goal two minutes in and then I did not think they were any good, really.
00:04:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think they offered much threat in the game.
00:04:11
Tom Crack - Ipswich
no no yeah i'm a complete agreement with with you to be honest like i said apart from that first two-minute spell when rashford scored the opener
00:04:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
They're 85 minutes or so after that. I don't know what you thought.
00:04:24
Tom Crack - Ipswich
you know, attacking wise, they really weren't but much of a threat throughout the rest of the game. He had a few chances to maybe count count us, catch us on the break, but some brilliant track, ah ah backtrack from our defenders really sort of at any set pieces immediately quashed by Marich coming out and grabbing it as he does for the most part. Yeah, really not much. I mean, looking back at the,
00:04:43
Tom Crack - Ipswich
quick highlights we saw after the guy gets like Rob said at the top of the show we are talking about this almost instantaneously after the game so to look back at every single aspect is hard to do so but looking back at the instant highlights of the game there's nothing really on that apart from Rajford's goal so it shows how little much of an effort they had on us and yeah that's that's the that's the big thing about you know you know Amrym's come in and he's gonna have to change everything obviously but You can't do that in a week and a half or however long he's been at Carrington 4 now. And it's shown that that's almost 10 Hogs teams still out there. You can have a different guy on the dugout, but they've been struggling to score all season. I think we've we've definitely scored more than them all season. I know that's for sure. And they're one of the lowest scoring sides in the Premier League. And it's showing because they really are so ah ah full of not full of, not full of confidence in front of goal. But you saw that run from Gunatria in the second half and Kuduso, that fantastic tackle to suppress. And they almost got a reaction as if it was a goal from the Krauts.
00:05:35
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But he actually went to pass it across the face rather than go for goal himself. It just shows the lack of confidence any of those guys have. And he brought on two strikers in Xerxes and Hoyland. Really didn't pose much for a threat, if anything, were worse compared to Rashford, to be honest, in terms of a goal threat. So that's their biggest issue, I think, is where the goal is going to come from. Because, yeah, they're mid-table. They're not going to go down. It's a ridiculous thing to say. But then if they want to get to where they want to be and where most expectants to be, they've really got to improve up top. And defensively, you're not going to have Johnny Evans through every game we don't want to as a fan, I can't imagine. But yes, a lot to be done there. I'm sure the guys at the Daily United are going to be dissecting week to week is how this team is going to change because there's so much wrong with it, I think, to be honest.
Ipswich's Strategic Adjustments
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think what we said when we saw the lineup, didn't we? We were starting our podcast chat. I was like, that's beatable. That is really beatable.
00:06:24
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:06:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
That team that didn't really know who was going to play there was some talk about whether it'd be going to be Casamiro, one of the back three. And I thought that was the case. Casamiro and an Evans as two of your back three. You've got a fancy dillapse chances there, but there's Mad Rowey in the end.
00:06:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I had no idea idea like who was playing where towards the end, which sort of anything benefited them really because we didn't really know we sort of slowed down at that point, because we weren't sure who was, what people's roles were, who's picking up who, because the start where he sort of worked out, but then say it started the game, it was effectively like one winger and one 10 behind a striker, which ah that i didn't really know how that worked.
00:07:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Then suddenly you had two strikers coming on, where one, that you didn't really know, was it still three, four, three? Is it now changing with Bruno sitting off these two?
00:07:09
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, I think one was playing a 10.
00:07:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
You didn't really, yeah, they didn't really know who was slotting into what role. we I think complicated things for us in terms of marketing everything and everything. which then sort of had an effect at the other end that we sort of slow once they made those sort of confusing changes and obviously mount came on as well.
00:07:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it sort of struggled to know who played where just sort of, they were players on a pitch or rather than a set up. And I think that sort of slowed us down as well. where We tried to figure that out and made for a very boring latter stages of the game.
00:07:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Second half generally was quite poor.
00:07:38
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:07:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
The first half as well, to be honest, that it was over. It wasn't a good, a really good game, to be honest. There was,
00:07:41
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:07:46
Tom Crack - Ipswich
No.
00:07:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
as we, we were the better team, I think, but we controlled the possession, even though we had more possession, we controlled the flow of the game, I'd say, and, and sort of dictating the pace and everything that we kept them quiet and made them because though they had the possession because they sort of go inside to side while not knowing how to break us down.
00:08:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was a sort of, sort of, I think we were trying, they were trying to figure themselves out as much as we were trying to figure out what they were doing, and I think, which made for it to be quite a
00:08:14
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:08:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
quiet and dull game, particularly, like I said, the second half, that little dilapge flick aside, there wasn't Chaplin's chance was, would've been better if Al Hamady wasn't standing in front of him, really, up but because he was there, it wasn't an easy chance that that's it really, isn't it?
00:08:26
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
Ipswich's Attacking Improvement
00:08:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
And so that break United had, the that was probably the time in the game, they looked closest to score in a second goal and that was only because we made a mistake in the midfield and they pounced quickly on the break and then it came to nothing anyway.
00:08:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
that they didn't really offer much at all. And I think that so potentially just because of the chances we had a slightly, well, if we had last season's Andre Anana in goal, we'd probably win that game.
00:08:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
But he's had a, he's had a very strong start to the season, made a couple of good saves and I've what've got goals to talk about, which there is a lot of positives for chances and for goals.
00:08:58
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, two great saves.
00:09:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Why don't we dig into, sort we'll run through those key chances and the goal in a bit more detail in a second part once we've had a quick word from one of our sponsors.
00:09:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we are back for the second part of your Monday edition of the daily Ipswich. So as I said, before we had a quick word from the sponsor, there's a lot of, well, not a lot, I don't think I've been over exaggerating there.
Response to Early Setbacks
00:10:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
There were some key chances in the game, obviously only two goals in the end, but from attacking side of things, which we know has been a problem for us, it was town's highest XG of the season, which is as a positive to take that there has been we said it in the week, I mean, there's been clear improvement in front of goal and we only got one on the day, but the chances again there, which is half of the problem solves. But before we get into the town side of things, we we better we'll but discuss what happened in the opening 80 seconds of the game. We found ourselves one nil down, strong work in the build up from Ahmad Diallo, very impressive run from him, but it's poor defending in the box, isn't it? So I'll rush ra to touch it in from there, Tom.
00:10:45
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, he kind of goes in front of, I believe it was O'Shea in the middle of there. And then Maric was kind of just stuck planted to his feet. Couldn't really move. I think he expected it to become across the face and then Rashford quickly snuck in there. And it was very much a smash and grab type goal considering how they played for the rest of the game. I thought Diallo's run was brilliant. I meant to run was fantastic, like against Koest and I think it was Burgess on his backside as well.
00:11:09
Tom Crack - Ipswich
he showed later in the game that he has pace to keep up with players like that. So to get away from him was really good. I think he's a decent player for United and he's going to be a key, especially the way Amorim looks like he's going to have his teams up throughout the season. Rashford's interesting. I think, you know,
00:11:22
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I'm sure the United guys will go missing in further detail than us, but you know, starting up top straight away, he's kind of been in and out of teams. He had a lot of managers for him at Ultraman United and you know, is this going to be the one that sticks? And I bet he was very chuffed to be up top and he took advantage of it straight away, but didn't really do much after that. But yeah.
00:11:40
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I thought we fought back well after that. Schmonach's had a good chance following Rashford's go, I think, 10 or so minutes later. And from then on, really, I thought we were the much better side the the rest of the first 45 for sure.
00:11:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we just started poorly, didn't we? We fell asleep there, like you say, that pretty much every play you've mentioned in the build-up, as we say, that potentially had a bit of fault in that goal, were actually some of the best players on the pitch.
00:12:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
I was showing Burgess had a brilliant game again with each other. They've really sort of kicked on a gear last few games. Caduce has an argument for Man the Match probably loses out to Amari because he came off a bit earlier on in the game.
00:12:18
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yep.
00:12:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
And obviously Amari got the 90. But I'd say Muric, again, I thought he looked quite dodgy first 1520 minutes but then he started from like you mentioned earlier on that from the corners and crosses he was very command and he done very well there he improved as the game went on but so I think yeah first 15 and you have to question mark the goalkeeper there for me as much as it is poor defensively as well so to let him get in between like that but ah you don't He goalkeepers come out and he set himself up.
00:12:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know whether there was a bit of wind or whatever, but it was difficult conditions to play in at Portland road with, we've obviously storm bird going around and everything and hide the high winds, but I don't know if that was a fact there, but to have your goal, his's walk he's come out to try and get that, but he's not fought for the ball.
00:13:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's come out and sort of sat there waiting for it. And that's allowed someone to get him behind. ifs If he's coming, I want him to be knocking people out of the way and getting the ball. He should be barging in in front of Rashford and who that other a defender and he should be throwing himself.
00:13:15
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:13:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
or he should be on his line and trust in his defence to deal with it. So blame me in a few areas, but I'd have to lean on Muric for me. But he bounced back and had a good game after I say a shaky first 10, 15 minutes or so. And so that up was town generally, really. We grew into the game, didn't we? fit That Smodik's chance that you just mentioned was the wake up call, really, wasn't it? It wasn't really, it wasn't an easy chance, but it drew a de of the first decent save of the game from Anana. And we sort of kicked on from that point. And then the next sort of,
00:13:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
major opportunity that we had was that Liam Dalat chance sort of midway through the first half. Brilliant run from Davis and he pulled it back and exactly where Dalat would want it and then Anana just done what what you can only do as a goalkeeper at that point and he made himself big and he got something on it and it was enough to stop it going in the back of the net. So what I want to ask you really is do we praise the goalkeeper there or do we have to give the lack of criticism and say that, well, keeper shouldn't be in the equation from there. that Yes, it's a good save, but should he been finishing it?
00:14:20
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, I mean, if you look at a lot of the goals, Dilap scored this season. That was one of the easiest chances he's had in comparison to plenty of others like the goal against Fulham near the start of the season. and Yeah, it's a tough one, wasn't it? You know, I think you have to applaud Anana.
00:14:31
Tom Crack - Ipswich
It's a fantastic save considering where Dilap was. I think Anana, surprisingly, has got the most clean sheets in the league this season. I may be wrong on that one, but I believe that is the case.
00:14:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, as an individual player, he does.
00:14:39
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Which is surprising.
00:14:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:14:41
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, it's surprising considering where, yeah, where United are as a team.
00:14:41
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my individual kill keeper.
00:14:45
Tom Crack - Ipswich
You wouldn't suspect that to be the case, but fair play to him. Yeah, just really tough. you know You mentioned earlier what our expected goals were very high and this chance as well as his one in the early stages of the second are the reason why it was so high because where he was you really would expect those to go in. I think what the thing that impressed me with that was his movement sort of moving back slightly and going slightly across the face when he looked like he could have just gone to the near post, decided to drift a bit further back and get in a better position to go in to score what should have been our opening goal of the game, it but it wasn't to be. Yeah, it's it's a shame. I think both players did great, I think, in terms of his movement, and none of the different tasks, so it was just the finish left. That's the only sort
Player Performances: Growth and Missed Opportunities
00:15:24
Tom Crack - Ipswich
of caveat there into the whole equation, but both did what they're supposed to, great goalkeeper, great goalkeeper in play, and great movement from a center forward, but sadly, that the finishing touch, didn't it?
00:15:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so it's a very good save. Like I say, you've got to give the goalie his props. But for me, if I'm being, I don't know whether I'm being cynical here or I'm expecting too much, but he shouldn't be in the, like, it's a fantastic save, but he shouldn't be even in the equation there.
00:15:40
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:15:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
For someone as informed as to Lapis, that sort of position, that the goalie shouldn't be given a chance. He only gave him a slight chance, don't get me wrong, but he and Anna took that chance.
00:15:58
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:16:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
And in that sort of position, you should be the goalkeeper should just be so but he should be able to pick the ball out of his net there and be momentous defense for their poor mark and he shouldn't really have a chance. But I don't know if I'm being overly harsh there, but for me that one, we'll get into the one in the second half a bit later, but that one for me was, it had to go in. theyre as As good as the save was, Anana shouldn't have had to have been able to make the save. It should have been passed him before he could react really. or
00:16:32
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put past him out out of his reach. But again, I don't know if I'm being harped. I'll have to let the lap off, because we've we still got a good point. And he's had an incredible start at the season. But so I think had we lost the game, that would be the one for me that I'd go back and say, had to go in.
00:16:44
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yeah
00:16:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
That one had that one have had to be a goal of all the chances. But that wasn't the goal. But we did get the goal about 15 minutes later. And Amari's off the mark, isn't he?
00:16:57
Tom Crack - Ipswich
finally you know i think he's probably been the player many fans have wanted to see get a goal this season and it's been waiting a long long time for him unfortunately but yeah he's finally got it i thought you know his game the week prior or the week or so prior against spurs was his best game of the season but he's done even better this week i thought his movement throughout the whole game and going forward not and especially in the middle because we've been saying a lot this season how his middle play has been quite weak we'd like to see more on the wing but he was fantastic in the middle today so i have to eat my words on that one to be honest and just a brilliant goal slight deflection as it sort of traversed in but i think give it the benefit it like he deserved a goal we were definitely on the front foot and a fantastic goal to get an equalizer there going into the half really thought we could have got something out of the game but yeah i'm so chuffed for him because i think it's really going to spur him on this season and he's
00:17:42
Tom Crack - Ipswich
A player who weighs on the ball, you can see the opposition is fearful and we only have a couple of guys and I'd say him and Dilapara are two main threats there. So this will give me more confidence to have a go at defenders like he did today. But yeah, fantastic goal from Hutchinson.
00:17:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we've spoke a lot, haven't we? Sort of that Brentford game, even though we lost, was the turning in point in terms of performances, really, weren't it, where we started to consistently play well and haven't quite turned into wins outside of Spurs.
00:18:04
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:18:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
But Amari has been one of the standouts in that really, hasn't he? who When you talk about performances picking up as a team, say Amari and O'Shea are probably the two, really, that you think of maybe word hitting the right levels beforehand that have now dropped three or four consecutive really, really strong performances and grown into the roles.
00:18:28
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:18:29
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And we know he's got those sort of cut ins on that left foot in the locker. We saw it in the whole game towards the back end of the last season, didn't we?
00:18:36
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Very similar, wasn't it?
00:18:36
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And yeah, exactly.
00:18:37
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:18:38
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and So we know he's got that. And but on this occasion, I think the deflection is what takes it past a nine, especially given the form he's been in this season and in that game, the deflection is probably what beat him. But it's poor defending from United really.
00:18:51
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Cause you know, he's got that in the locker. they They let him do it. They're trying their luck when they let him do it. And it's found its way into the back of the net with the help of deflection, but a deserved goal for him and a deserved goal for us in the game, really.
00:19:02
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And I think half time I'd say a draw was probably the fair result. Although I said that the lap chance was the one that had to go if we were going to win the game, but sort of draw was fair.
00:19:12
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Mm.
00:19:14
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And then the second half, the general quality of the game went down a bit, but this is where we sort of, became the stronger team, didn't we? and But before we sort of get into that dilap chance, that second dilap chance, United had that break. We've mentioned it already. So we won't go into too much detail, will we? But fantastic track and back from Caduce, wasn't it?
Defense: Key Players and Contributions
00:19:33
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, well, there was actually, there was two track backs in both games, in both halves, actually, just to touch them quickly. It was Morsy, he had one the, I'm not sure what part of the game it was, but he had one in the first. And then, yeah, because Juice was the the standout in that in that regard as well, would touch on certain players in the later part of the show. But yeah, I thought that was fantastic. It was like, you saw the crowd, it was like, they celebrated as as if it was a goal, which was really good to see. And he's he's definitely a player who,
00:19:59
Tom Crack - Ipswich
but like the Spurs game he was again one of our best players in the pitch and again today I think with Phillips being out I believe it's a slight injury today because obviously his suspension from the Leicester game was lifted now so we kind of expect him to be back in the team if he was fit but even if he is fit now it's going to be a struggle because the way he turns and goes forward could you say it's a It's a trait we don't see much in Mausie, because he's very much there for the holdup and being there as an extra defender, not going forward as much.
00:20:29
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Kudjuus offers that where he does go forward, which is something we don't really have in a double pivot from those two. So I think that's something really, it's a trait he has that Phillips does in it. It may be the feeling it keeps him in the team and those long throws.
00:20:40
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Didn't really work this week, but one of them will work eventually.
00:20:43
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Yeah.
00:20:43
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Maybe Kudjuus has been hanging out of a raw redalette instead of Liam for this one.
00:20:47
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Maybe, yeah, but as I say, it was brilliant work from him, wasn't it? It was a mistake in the build up that let them get there.
00:20:51
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yeah
00:20:53
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It was the only sort of mistake we made in the game, really. And luckily, thanks to his excellent tracking back and timing of the tackle, we weren't punished for it. And then we we also sort of failed to punish United at the other end, didn't we?
00:21:05
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That second-to-lap chance. Harder than the first one, and they're getting an equally as good save from Anana to Deny us going to one up.
00:21:15
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I think the thing that stands out from that whole part of the game there was Dilap in the middle of the park, completely turned Dilict, ran right through the middle with like five United players surrounding him, outside the boot pass to, I believe it was Burns on the right, to get into that box. Because that build-up player was fantastic. That's one of the best things about him, we've talked about it many times, is just his bombing running through the middle to create chances when there isn't a chance there to begin with. And he did that. And yeah, I mean, very audacious with the flick. I don't know if he should have just gone on the side of his foot to try and maybe smash in the near corner rather than across the face. I think that maybe would have been the right move in hindsight, but very unlucky. Harder a chance than the one in the first half. But again, given the four mes in, you would have expect them to maybe score maybe, i like I said, gone with the right way of shooting, shall we say. but
00:22:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm.
00:22:06
Tom Crack - Ipswich
It's something we have in Dilap that I don't think many of the teams below me, we saw Konya over the weekend for Worlds, it was fantastic, but it's something that teams at the bottom. don't tend to have is the out and out goal score. I mean, you look at Southampton this past weekend, Armstrong was their main guy last year. He's having a horrible time in the prem. Lester, obviously with Cougar leaving earlier today on the time recording as well, Vardy's getting off it, don't really have that sort of main guy up top. So I think that really, if he stays fit, he can be that difference maker that sees us being a Premier League team next year because not many teams have that number nine, even near the top half of the table. So that's,
00:22:44
Tom Crack - Ipswich
shows how really important he is. But look at those two chances. It's a shame he couldn't let them in. And he's had harder chances this season, hasn't he? But yeah, one of those games for him, I think.
00:22:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that's the one for me. i So the one in the first half I thought he's got a score really as good as I say it was this one. I think there is the argument like you said he could have gone that way.
00:23:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I think he's gone for the flick because it's a bit further away from his body. It's a bit of a struggle to sort of wrap his foot round it and get that.
00:23:09
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:23:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think he saw once he's decided he's going for the flick, he's caught it as well as he could do. It's just brilliant anticipation. And I was all like, you see that makes contact with the ball and I was already on the floor of his legs out ready to he's got his body as big as he can.
00:23:25
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, he knows it.
00:23:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's anticipated the contact. He's got himself in the right place and it's a fantastic save that one I think. So i I'll just hand a little bit of blame to Dilap for the first one but that's just outstanding bit of goalkeeping for me.
00:23:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think he did Dilap side of things done from the build up to the finish. I think he'd done everything right and he's just really unlucky that he's up against the top class goalkeeper who's got himself in the right position there because I think if he gets an
00:23:49
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:23:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
he does that exact same build up and finish I think most games this season he probably finds the back of the net it's just an honor he's the most informed goalkeeper in the league at the moment
Areas for Improvement
00:23:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
and he was there in the right place at the right time again.
00:24:00
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yeah
00:24:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just quickly before we have another break to hear from the sponsors and that kind of chaplain chance was that a big chance do you think or it didn't really get much comment really on when you go through the commentary it wasn't mentioned that much it was just sort of like they didn't deem it a big opportunity but I thought that was, that felt like when he hit it, I thought he's got a score.
00:24:21
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:24:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then I watched the replay and I thought, oh, actually maybe was Al Hamadi in the way there.
00:24:23
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm. Hmm.
00:24:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
What did you think?
00:24:29
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, I mean, when when the likes of Chaplin and Ahamedy came on, I kind of thought, okay, our main attack and threat's kind of gone, so let's see out this see the status draw, so I wouldn't necessarily expect us to have the best chance and but in that final 10, 15 minutes or so, but we did, and it was those two guys who were at the front of it. Yeah, difficult. I don't think it really had much power on it, but you know, it's it's the it's that it's Closest chance that any team had in the latter stage of the game. So it's, it's, it's there to talk about, but really it wasn't much of an effort. Unfortunately, I do think going off slightly of a tangent here, I do think we might need to bring someone in, in January, maybe an experienced striker, like we did with more last year. We'll talk about that another time, but I don't see how how many being that second sub now of Hearst, unfortunately out for, it seems like a quite an extended period of time again, Dilap's going to need some help because we've got a lot of games coming over the next month or so. And he can't do it all on his own.
00:25:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I agree. I think that probably might be a good idea for a wildcard Wednesday down the line. Maybe we wouldn't, wouldn't we scout out with some potential striker options and pass them onto to the club.
00:25:25
Tom Crack - Ipswich
a Who should we sign?
00:25:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, I think for me, like I say, I watched it in real time and I, I watched that, I I ah saw the save and I would said to i sat there watching, I went out loud, I just went, he's got a score, he's got a score.
00:25:39
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:25:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Then I saw the replay and realized actually Al Hamadis sort of in his way and then trying to get out of the way and he didn't get much chance to react and he caught it quite well, all things considered and I think,
00:25:44
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yeah
00:25:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
watch as a case of two players won't want the ball and Alhamdee had the awareness to realize Chaplin had the better chance and tried to get out the way the besties could but had they not been standing so close to each other I think it would have been a better chance and perhaps one we could have benefited from but wasn't to be in the end and like I said we can't really complain with the river point can we from the end of the day but we'll have a quick word from another one of our sponsors and then we'll be picking out some of the key performances and giving some the right players some praise after for the point we've just done.
Standout Performances
00:26:45
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And we are back for the final part of today's episode. So we're going to go straight in. There's a lot of, it's difficult to pick really, because it was a very good team performance and there's no one really had a bad game in a blue shirt and including the substitutes who came on, they all put themselves in, put a good shift. And we just mentioned Al Hamid in Chaplin, but I'll let you you go first. Tom, was there anyone you want to single out as sort of your man on the match?
00:27:12
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah. I mean, you know, Richard, our colleague is probably going to think I'm crazy for this, but to be honest, the guy's proving all of us wrong in the past weeks. And I think Dario Shay for me, like you said, no one really individually stood out, maybe maybe Hutchinson, who I'm sure we'll touch them on in a sec, but I think Dario Shay, he's come on leaps and bounds at past weeks. I think like you said, the the Brentford game.
00:27:30
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yeah it was heartbreak at the end but from then on I think the team's putting some really good performances, him included, I think Lester was great, Spurs didn't put a foot wrong and again today made some key key tackles. One of the things I liked about him and it was a few months that could have potentially led to a goal is from a few set pieces he was at the back to head it across the face which you know those two moments nothing came of him but who's to say they weren't something more common in the next few weeks. So I think having that from someone like him is a decent thing to have and you know like with Greaves out he had to step up because he was kind of hiding behind his shadow with Greaves putting those great performances at the start of the season so we don't know when Greaves is back a lot of us expect him to maybe be back for this game and he wasn't even on the bench so for the time being O'Shea is our number one center back who went fully fit and he's putting in a great
00:28:18
Tom Crack - Ipswich
shifted at the moment, and I've got nothing to say but good things about him, which is good because I had a lot of bad things to say about him a month or so ago. So he's proving a lot of us wrong, which I'm very which i'm sure he's glad to do as well.
00:28:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, like I said, I said him and Hutchinson deny earlier that we've been these upturn performances, they've been the main two that sort of epitomize that, that improvement in their own games that have matched the improvement from the team, really.
00:28:36
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yeah
00:28:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
And pretty sure Greaves return to training in this week. So hopefully we'll be seeing him sooner rather than than later. ah Most likely, like I say, I think at the moment, he'd be slotting in for Burgess if he was going to come straight back in, wouldn't he, rather than overshade.
00:28:46
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Fingers crossed.
00:28:51
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:28:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
And but we've touched on Hutchinson already. So, We're giving him a lot of praise, his performance and how
Midfield Impact
00:28:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
he's been building up. So I will skip over him. But before I, I'm going to talk about, I still can't pronounce his name, but the end is confused.
00:29:02
Tom Crack - Ipswich
To stay.
00:29:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm going to have to learn it eventually. He keeps putting performances like this.
00:29:09
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:29:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm going to learn it. and I'm going to be saying it every single week on here. He keeps playing like that. And that was the one for me. I thought I said the subs, no one had a bad game, but that was the one for me really.
00:29:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
When Taylor came on, that's when we lost a little bit and the game sort of started to slow down a bit. that was the one sort of, not that Taylor played poorly, but we lost a little bit of something when he went off, I think, which is where we start. But that was the sort of where I felt, all right, well, this is probably just going to be a point now, rather than kind of push them while we had them struggling and going to get that result. But superb against Tottenham on the superb again, it's made a big step up. And we're still the point, actually, that my mate texts me in the build-up after the game, which I think is absolutely, he's hit the nail on the head,
00:29:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
in terms of the kind of player areas he He compared him to Graven Burch at Liverpool, and I thought that was just nailed on.
00:30:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
sort of can accept a He obviously sits in that slightly deeper role, which he does his defensive duties really well. And the way, like we said, with that how he tracked that run, it's also his ability to receive the ball like or just generally and drive and forward up the pitch.
00:30:02
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Wow.
00:30:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's good on the ball. He doesn't look fazed. He will see things on the half turn, open up areas of space, set us away, get us some defense to attack. and I think he's, uai I can't claim credit for the point. It was my mate that said it. I think it's nailed on. It's exactly the role that Gravenberg has got heaps of praise for a Liverpool this season, that sort of fake number six almost. so You're playing in the six, but you you've got someone next year to share the duty so you can get away with it a bit more. And I think that's exactly what he's done. And we said it a couple of weeks ago, didn't we, when mas and Phillips are playing well together but we felt they were too similar and we want someone to fill that more box to box or taking the sort of forward possession role and he's come in, i think we think we found him now, ah he's had it he's had that time to bed in and two brilliant performers back to back doing that exact role that we sat here two or three weeks ago and said we were missing.
00:31:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
I thought he was fantastic again.
00:31:08
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, yeah, definitely. I think, you know, you've hit the nail on the head or your mate hit the nail on the head there with his box-to-box, his box-to-box performances, the fact that, you know, he can have a standout highlight at the back of that fantastic tackle against go on at show, but then really key in being a being the guy to begin that pasture play going forward, not necessarily being the guy in the box to score it, but being the guy to start that offensive passion passage of play and trucking forward. And you saw last week, I think he whipped the ball in leading up to Schmonitz goal as well. So he has that in his locker to be a part of a goal-making opportunity, which I can't really say much, the same for Phillips for the most part. And yeah, it's it's it's a good option. It's a good problem to have now. I think we were kind of thinking, is it just going to be the Morrison Phillips show all season? Because this guy doesn't look like he can necessarily hang, but
00:31:54
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Q says, I think he's just yeah he said putting some fantastic performances in recent weeks. He wasn't picked for Sweden over the break. I don't know if that maybe give him a mental kick at the backside to say, I know I'm good enough to be in my national team. Let's prove it on the pitch of my club because that's where I am right now. And he's definitely proven that and long may it continue because he seems like a really, really important place for us to have as the season goes on.
Adaptation to Premier League Demands
00:32:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, definitely. And someone I want to give a quick shout out to before we wrap up today's episode as well is Wes Burns, because he felt it was a massive game for him coming back in.
00:32:24
Tom Crack - Ipswich
All right.
00:32:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Obviously, you assume Johnson would have played if he was fit, but he sort of incoming and he's been probably the lead in Canada of hasn't adapted to Premier League football yet.
00:32:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he he said more chances than most and hasn't really clicked.
00:32:38
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:32:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
And you felt this was a massive game for him. He's been trusted again from the start and that if he was off the pace again you probably wondered well is he going to be permanently reduced to that sub role but he said that right mid slots to one the one that's still wide open really isn't it because i've been a look to have it nailed down and then got injured and out for the season but i thought he had his best game in the season but and so he was a real threat down that right hand side some of the crosses he was whipping in obviously most notably the one for that dilap flick but He, for me, had his best performance of the season.
00:33:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
And hopefully, it's a sign of things to come. Because like I say, that role on the right is still open for who wants to go and claim it. So I think it's a massive moment for him, personally, this game, to the first time he's really hit.
00:33:20
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:33:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I certainly, the first time I felt he's hit the Premier League level. So I assume that's what he would share those thoughts himself. And hopefully, that gives him the confidence to kick on and put a run together now. Because we're going to need every player in these festive fixtures, aren't we?
00:33:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
So many people on form as possible.
00:33:41
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, definitely.
Turning Draws into Wins
00:33:41
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I think one of the things we've seen with a lot of the guys who have been a key part of the squad for the past two seasons, um and like Burns a few before that as well, is dave if they've been fantastic in the league's blow.
00:33:52
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But one of the things about moving up to Premier League is you have to show that you're able to be adaptable and sort of slightly change your game. Not completely, but slightly change it to suit the Premier League style of play. Because one of the things of him was that he used his speed a lot in the Championship and League One especially, which, you know, he tries to do in the Premier League, but and everyone's a bit faster in the Premier League so it's not really a trait of his that's really going to be able to stand out as much. So I think we didn't see much of his pace this week but I think that was a good thing because he was able to sort of take the game a bit slower and use that fantastic right foot because he can put it across
00:34:24
Tom Crack - Ipswich
anywhere in the pitch, wherever the fenders right in front of him or a couple of yards to the side of him that he can get a ball in. And he did that many times, one a few corners as well. So I think that's the thing he can do for us is let the guys sort of come up a bit and then put that ball in. But yeah, it's like you said, I think it's the best performance he's had. Very unlucky to start the season to get an injury right at the start because that really kind of put him out of, well, unfortunately put him out of favor because he was like injured and do I have the standard to get back in the side? But yeah, he did a great job this week. I wouldn't say necessarily he is nailed on, but no one is really at the moment because injuries and maybe just lack of depth is the reason why we haven't gotten nailed on personal. It's the only part of the squad, any area of the squad, I should say, where I thought we haven't got a starting guy, but you know, Johnson and Burns last week's have put in good shifts. So whoever it is, I have confidence in that's for sure, which I didn't maybe have with Burns in a few weeks ago, but yeah, great performance from him.
00:35:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, and then just to wrap up today's episode, we're, to talk, have a look at the league table, I think we need, because we had a lot of praise here, but we are, we have slipped back into the bottom three with the other results going around this weekend, but it's incredibly tight there.
00:35:24
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Oh,
00:35:31
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yep.
00:35:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, ah ah apart from Southampton, which is unfortunate for them, especially, I'll say luckily for our point of view, Liverpool turned around, but it looked touchy for a moment, didn't it? But they sit back on four points, but then you've got,
00:35:42
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yep.
00:35:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Everton in 15th. Let's go West Ham in 14th even on 12th.
00:35:46
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:35:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Obviously you have a game to play tomorrow. And then Palace in 19th is 8th.
00:35:52
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Today.
00:35:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
So four point gap between 19th and 14th. We're only in the bottom three on goal difference because walls won by such a convincing margin at Craven Cottage on Saturday. But it's all very tight down there.
00:36:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
And as we obviously meant, it's another point on the board. It's a positive point in the way we're looking at it. But Well at what point do these draws have to start becoming wins? Because we've drawn more games than anybody else in the league this season and there's not a gap pulling away yet but like I say it could come down to this as tight as it is now. The difference of turning these draws into wins could climb you places up the table couldn't they?
00:36:30
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, definitely. you know I think this league in Liverpool seemed like, to especially if next Sunday goes there, it looks like they're going to start running away over at the top there. But if you look at the whole league, it's really, really tight all over the place. I don't think this far into it. Maybe 12 games were into it now. I don't think we expected it was close. But you know because like if we win at Forest next week, we're up to 15th, 14th potentially. So it just shows like you can go up a lot of spaces very quickly. you know We've got a big game at home against Palace early December as well.
00:36:58
Tom Crack - Ipswich
And then I think we're away at Molyneux again after that. So those sort of games are coming thick and fast. You know, we said in, was it September time that these games, like the Brentford Everton ones, the Leicester ones, like, this will have to pick results. But we seem to pick up results against the harder games, which is strange for us. So let's see how these this next few weeks goes when we're against teams we potentially could get a result against. But yeah, I mean, it's it's hard to say. It's not early doors anymore.
00:37:23
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But everything's still really close where you can afford to drop a point like we did today and still be within a shout. Southampton, unfortunately, I think, yeah, they're five points away from us. I bless them. I can't really see them fighting back at this point. Who knows? I could be wrong. But, you know, Bournemouth lost to and about, so they might find themselves slipping soon as well. Forrest's form is starting to slump. Obviously, he had a difficult game against Newcastle and Arsenal, so two difficult opposition there. but Yeah, it's it's hard to tell. we've had I know Brentford wasn't a win, but we've had four good performances and it seems like that's the manner in which things will continue. So hopefully we can start to pick points up more and more, but it's it's very tight. It's going to be that tight throughout the whole season, I think, but we're in it. We're one of the teams who I think have a great chance of staying up, which is important because we're not just one of those teams that's come up. And yeah, I think we've been the best newly promoted team out of the three. You look at Leicester on the weekend, like it took them ages to turn up against Chelsea and like,
00:38:17
Tom Crack - Ipswich
They were quick to chuck the manager out the door the next day, weren't they? So things aren't going well there. And it's like the same case of Martin there. But we, I think on the pitch, are putting the best performance out of the newly promoted teams, which is something I'm very proud of.
Episode Wrap-Up: Looking Ahead
00:38:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we're hard to beat, aren't we? That's that's the key. but That's ultimately what it comes down to, these draws.
00:38:30
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yeah Six draws. Yeah. yeah
00:38:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
It comes down to, I mean, say more draws than anybody else in the league, but at the moment, it's still that we're getting good points. We're getting points out of these games, especially some some of them we have been the better team.
00:38:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
We could have won like this weekend, but there has been some in there where we haven't been the better team. And we've done well to get a point out of them.
00:38:50
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Brighton.
00:38:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Exactly. That was the one that came to my mind as well, that these sort of games, obviously Southampton, we snatched one in the last minute on what wasn't a brilliant performance.
00:38:55
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:38:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we're tough to beat. We're not, we fight till the end. We get these points, but at some point that is going to turn. And like I say that it's it's a good, it's a positive result.
00:39:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
We don't want to dampen the weekend, but ultimately we have dropped positions in the table this weekend and which we wouldn't have done had we gone and got that winner. and we need to stop this and be in a recurring feeling down the weeks that at the moment when I say I'm still happy especially in a game like this I'm happy to take a point but I think if you ask me in a month's time and we got a point from a similar sort of game like this where we had the better chances and stuff that will start to be a poor result in the context of things but certainly at this point we can celebrate the positives and that's how we're going to wrap up today's show slightly bumper edition for you we've gone on for about 40 minutes now but clearly we just had a lot to talk about from
00:39:23
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yeah
00:39:29
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah. Lots to talk about.
00:39:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Somehow we had a lot to talk about from what wasn't the most entertaining game of football. But there's certainly lots of positives to mention, definitely. But Richard and James will be taking over tomorrow's episode, letting you know their thoughts on the game and obviously diving in a bit more on the analysis side of things for Tactics Tuesday.
00:40:04
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00:40:14
Tom Crack - Ipswich
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00:40:15
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00:40:16
Tom Crack - Ipswich
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00:40:22
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So we'd appreciate any follows and likes you can provide on our content on the socials. And like I say, Richard and James back tomorrow, but from me and Tom, we will see you later in the week.