Ipswich Town 4-3 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Championship · Saturday 23 September 2023
Result
Ipswich Town 4-3 Blackburn Rovers
Championship · Saturday 23 September 2023, 14:00 UTC · half-time 3-1
Ipswich Town 4-3 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Ipswich Town beat Blackburn Rovers 4-3 in the Championship on Saturday 23 September 2023. It was 3-1 at half-time.
Harry Clarke opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Ipswich Town's goals came from Harry Clarke (4'), Nathan Broadhead (18'), George Hirst (25') and Massimo Luongo (79'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Arnór Sigurdsson (9'), an own goal by Harry Clarke (52') and Sammie Szmodics (65').
Discipline: Ipswich Town received 3 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Ipswich Town were 3rd on 18 points from 7 and Blackburn Rovers 12th on 10 points from 7. Ipswich Town went on to finish that season 2nd with 96 points, and Blackburn Rovers 19th with 53.
Ipswich Town lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Massimo Luongo of Ipswich Town (8.5), ahead of Nathan Broadhead (8.1).
Key events
- 4'Goal · Harry Clarke
- 9'Goal · Arnór Sigurdsson
- 18'Goal · Nathan Broadhead
- 25'Goal · George Hirst
- 31'Yellow card · Andrew Moran
- 40'Yellow card · Arnór Sigurdsson
- 48'Yellow card · Sam Morsy
- 52'Own goal · Harry Clarke
- 59'Yellow card · George Hirst
- 62'Yellow card · Hayden Carter
- 65'Goal · Sammie Szmodics
- 72'Yellow card · Lewis Travis
- 74'Yellow card · Conor Chaplin
- 79'Goal · Massimo Luongo
Head-to-head
Team news
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Ipswich Town line-up (4-2-3-1)
Václav Hladký, Harry Clarke, Luke Woolfenden, Cameron Burgess, Leif Davis, Sam Morsy, Massimo Luongo, Wes Burns, Conor Mark Chaplin, Nathan Broadhead, George Hirst
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-2-3-1)
Aynsley Pears, Callum Brittain, Hayden Carter, Dominic Hyam, Harry Pickering, Lewis Travis, Adam Wharton, A. Moran, Sammie Szmodics, Arnór Sigurdsson, Harry Leonard