Ipswich recorded their first Premier League win of the season with a shock 2-1 win over sloppy and lacklustre Tottenham.
Ipswich raced right into a first-half lead courtesy of Sam Szmodics’ intelligent overhead kick and Liam Delap’s close-range end.
It left Spurs in one other sticky state of affairs up towards a dogged and decided guests who knew a storm was coming their method within the second half.
But it by no means actually materialised as solely a Rodrigo Bentancur header discovered the web for underwhelming Spurs, who struggled to create clear-cut possibilities though Dominic Solanke thought he had scored on 52 minutes however his effort was out by VAR for a handball.
Ipswich City’s Sammie Szmodics celebrates his purpose towards Spurs
Spurs had been booed off by their residence followers at full-time. They’ve seen their facet lose 5 video games already this season within the Premier League as Ange Postecoglou is struggling to search out the important thing.
In the meantime, this was an enormous second for Kieran McKenna and his gutsy facet, who received a Premier League sport for the primary time since April 2002. It means there are not any winless groups remaining within the league after each Wolves and McKenna’s facet received this weekend.
Ange: Inconsistency is my fault
Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou:
“That is [inconsistency] all the way down to me. That is my accountability. The inconsistency we’re having this 12 months, in the end it comes all the way down to me and my method and one thing I have to attempt to repair and see if I will help the gamers in that space.
“We did not begin the sport properly in any respect. It was all type of passive, with out the ball, with the ball. I felt we did not get the tempo or depth proper after which we gave ourselves a mountain to climb. Second half we had been within the ascendancy and had alternatives clearly however we did not do sufficient with them.”
McKenna: It is a important second
Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna:
“It is a huge, important second. A day to cherish within the current historical past. The journey the membership has been on – the highs and the depths. For the followers to see their membership within the Premier League and win in a stadium like this can be a huge day. The place the membership was two years in the past to now competing within the Premier League a big landmark.”
Evaluation: A McKenna masterclass
Sky Sports activities’ Lewis Jones:
“Slightly below two years in the past Ipswich City and Kieran McKenna had been held to a 1-1 draw with Cheltenham City in League One. What has transpired since has been unimaginable. Right here they had been, simply two years later, beating Tottenham 2-1 within the Premier League in their very own yard.
“It is one other landmark day for Ipswich City as a soccer membership, who in a wierd quirk of truth beat Spurs 2-1 on their final go to to north London, again in 2001 when Alun Armstrong scored a late winner.
“This was a tactical masterclass by the spectacular McKenna, who confirmed everybody why Manchester United and Chelsea had been genuinely contemplating giving him the keys to their membership in the summertime.
“They deserved this win. A primary-half efficiency stuffed with guile and artistic attacking play backed up by a backs-to-the-wall, dogged and intelligent second half the place they restricted Spurs to little or no. A primary Premier League win and one they will bear in mind for a very long time.”
