Report | Ipswich 3-2 Wolves

Report | Ipswich 3-2 Wolves

Wolves 2 (Hwang 4, Toti 15), Ipswich 3 (Hutchinson 28, Ladapo 39, Taylor 58).

Wolves lost against Championship team Ipswich Town at Portman Road, blowing a two-goal lead, and were eliminated from the Carabao Cup.

Gary O’Neil’s team held the lead early on with to goals from Hee Chan Hwang and Toti, but they gave their opponents back into the game when Omari Hutchinson and Freddie Ladapo tied the game up before halftime.

After the break, Jack Taylor’s incredible goal gave Ipswich the victory. Matt Doherty and Santiago Bueno both had chances to send the game to penalties for Wolves, but they were unable to do so.

Wolves quickly jumped out to a two-goal lead after 15 minutes, so O’Neil wouldn’t have been let down early on if he was hoping for his team to mark their quality at Portman Road right away. Hwang set things in motion when he was given room inside the Ipswich box, picked up the ball from Sasa Kalajdzic, and shot across the goal and into the far corner.

Before the Old Gold made it two from a set piece, Doherty also made a threat early on. Santiago Bueno’s close-range header from Pablo Sarabia’s inswinging corner was well saved by Vaclav Hladky, but Toti pounced on the loose ball to score the rebound.

Wolves at that time appeared attractive, but things were about to change. After stopping former Old Gold player Lee Evans from a distance, Dan Bentley watched the ball elude him and the near post in minute 28 after Hutchinson had defeated Santiago Bueno.

Five minutes remained in the first half when Marcus Harness fed Freddie Ladapo, who was able to turn inside the Wolves area and shoot underneath Bentley, a save the goalkeeper may have wanted to make better.

Sarabia twice came close to putting his team ahead at the half, first sending an indirect free-kick against the wall and then glancing a low effort wide following superb work by Hwang down the left, leaving nothing to be decided going into the break.

Wolves 2-2 Ipswich at halftime

The first half’s promising beginning was thoroughly forgotten after the break when Ipswich went on to win it. After Harness had came close earlier in the half, Taylor finished the job by scooping up the ball 35 yards from goal and firing into the top corner from a distance.

From then, Wolves did have some opportunities, almost all of them came from Tommy Doyle corners. Doherty first flung his corner agonizingly wide, and then Santiago Bueno, who had found space inside the Town box, headed another dead ball gift straight at Hladky.

As Rayan Ait-Nouri slammed the ball home in stoppage time after Fabio Silva had strayed offside and deflected Doherty’s cross into the crossbar, Matheus Cunha came off the bench to curl over from the edge of the box with good feet. At Portman Road, Wolves’ involvement in the Carabao Cup came to an end.

Full-time: Wolves 3-2 Ipswich

Ipswich | Harness (Aluko 70), Hutchinson (Humphreys 70), Ladapo (Hirst 70), Ball, Edmundson, Baggott, Williams, Evans, Taylor (Luongo 82), Jackson (Burns 82), and Edmundson.

Sicker, Donacien, Woolfenden, and Chaplin were not utilized as subs.

Wolves | Bentley, Jonny; Doherty, S. Bueno; Toti, H. Bueno (Ait-Nouri 45); Traore, Doyle (Gomes 73); Sarabia (Cunha 61); Hwang (Silva 69); Kalajdzic (Fraser 61).

King, Kilman, Hodge, and Fernandez were not substituted.