Middlesbrough 2-0 Ipswich Town: result and report
Championship · Saturday 9 December 2017
Result
Middlesbrough 2-0 Ipswich Town
Championship · Saturday 9 December 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Middlesbrough 2-0 Ipswich Town: match report
Middlesbrough beat Ipswich Town 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 9 December 2017. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Martin Braithwaite opened the scoring in the 44th minute. Middlesbrough's goals came from Martin Braithwaite (44') and P. Bamford (51'). Ipswich Town did not score.
Discipline: Middlesbrough received 3 yellow cards; Ipswich Town received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Middlesbrough were 9th on 29 points from 20 and Ipswich Town 7th on 32 points from 20. Middlesbrough went on to finish that season 6th with 77 points, and Ipswich Town 12th with 60.
Middlesbrough lined up in a 4-2-2-2 and Ipswich Town in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Patrick Bamford of Middlesbrough (8.2), ahead of Cyrus Christie (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Middlesbrough wins, 3 draws and 3 for Ipswich Town.
Going into the match Middlesbrough's last five read L-L-W-L-W and Ipswich Town's W-W-L-D-D.
Key events
- 21'Yellow card · Grant Leadbitter
- 32'Yellow card · Daniel Ayala
- 44'Goal · Martin Braithwaite
- 51'Goal · P. Bamford
- 59'Yellow card · Bersant Celina
- 90'Yellow card · Martin Braithwaite
Head-to-head
Team news
Middlesbrough line-up (4-2-2-2)
Darren Randolph, Fábio, Yuki Takahashi, Ben Gibson, Cyrus Christie, Grant Leadbitter, Martin Braithwaite, Jonathan Howson, Stewart Downing, Britt Assombalonga, Patrick Bamford
Ipswich Town line-up (4-2-3-1)
Bartosz Białkowski, Jonas Knudsen, Luke Chambers, Adam Webster, Jordan Spence, Cole Skuse, Bersant Celina, Callum Connolly, Grant Ward, Emyr Huws, Martyn Waghorn