The Gurgler’s Premier League football coverage of the 2024/25 season continues with match reviews of selected games throughout the season, including this edition of a summary of the Ipswich v Man City match which ended Man City 4 Ipswich 1.
But this is no ordinary review, in fact, it’s barely a review. People don’t have enough time these days, so we pack as much information into a one-minute read as we can. If that.
Man City 4 Ipswich 1 – Match Summary
FIRST HALF
For five glorious minutes, Ipswich Town were leading one of the best football teams in the world.
The Ipswich goal was totally against the run of play, but was still well taken. A breakaway from West Ham recruit Ben Johnson found Blackburn recruit Sam Szmodics who put the ball through Ederson and the ball trickled over the line for a barely believable 1-0 lead after 7 minutes.
Man City seemed to take maximum offence to this goal and turned their football up to 11. Although, City’s first goal was a gift. There was the lightest feather of touch on the edge of the box on Savinho by Leif Davis and VAR spoiled the Ipswich party. Erling Haaland made no mistake with the penalty.
Before the disappointment had time to sink in for Ipswich fans it was 2-1, after Ipswich’s dedication to playing out from the back ended in disaster as the Ipswich keeper was dispossessed and an easy tap in for Kevin de Bruyne. One does wonder why Walton, who was excellent against Liverpool in Week 1 was replaced at this stage.
A third goal in four minutes arrived with some more hesitant defending, and Haaland was on the scene for his second. The score was lucky to stay at 3-1 until half time with two more attempts hitting the woodwork, and City suffocating Ipswich with the ball.
SECOND HALF
Thankfully Man City are a team that rarely put the foot down with a decent lead, because there were signs at theirpeak in the first half, with the woodwork to thank, that the nine goal deficit that Ipswich jointly hold the record for could be in trouble.
Of course Erling Haaland completed another hat trick as he is a goal hungry monster, football’s equivalent of the evil Terminators, but thankfully
A 4-0 loss would have been a widely accepted result pre-match, so keeping the goals against to four, scoring the first goal of the season, and not being totally embarrassed was a decent outcome.
Ipswich also have the equal best shots on target v shots ratio in the Premier League after two games. Small wins.
The season starts next week for Ipswich where they play a tricky, but infinitely easier game v Fulham at home.
Man City 4 Ipswich 1 – Stats
