Ipswich stored their automated promotion bid on observe after Conor Chaplin’s thirteenth purpose of the season gave them a 1-0 win at Blackburn.
Buoyed by Leicester’s defeat within the early kick-off, Kieran McKenna’s males flew out of the traps and made their early dominance depend by means of Chaplin’s well-worked purpose, although Blackburn’s Aynsley Pears should have completed higher.
However this barely advised the story of the sport because the struggling hosts, nonetheless searching for their first win underneath John Eustace, had been greater than a match and can really feel aggrieved that that they had targets in both half contentiously dominated out.
The league’s high scorer Sammie Szmodics missed an excellent probability 11 minutes from time, however Ipswich dug in admirably to notch their eighth win in 9.
Ipswich ought to have had an early penalty when Callum Brittain tugged Nathan Broadhead again however referee Stuart Atwell waved play on.
They hit the entrance within the ninth minute when Chaplin sprayed the ball out broad for Leif Davis and bumped into the field to satisfy the defender’s low cross earlier than letting fly with a first-time shot that discovered the underside nook, however Pears in some way let the ball squirm by means of him.
The Tractor Boys didn’t let up and Kieffer Moore put a near-post header over quickly after, whereas Chaplin normal an opportunity with a silky first contact however his left-foot effort was saved.
Rovers thought that they had equalised on the half hour when a flowing transfer ended with Tyrhys Dolan’s cut-back discovering Joe Rankin-Costello who slotted dwelling by way of a deflection however Szmodics was both adjudged to be obstructing the goalkeeper or deemed to be the one who deflected the ball.
Ipswich got here out after the break with renewed objective and Chaplin hammered a shot into the facet netting inside 20 seconds of the restart earlier than Pears parried his curling effort a minute later.
Blackburn confirmed indicators of life on the hour when Vaclav Hladky parried a cross into the trail of Ben Chrisene however Chaplin bought a significant contact earlier than he might pull the set off, and moments later, Szmodics whipped a first-time shot goalwards that Hladky tipped over the bar.
The house followers had been incensed once more within the 74th minute when Andrew Moran smashed in off the underside of the bar after Hladcky dropped a cross underneath stress from Scott Wharton however the referee deemed it a foul from the Rovers defender.
Hladcky made a horrible error and excellent save in the identical transfer within the 79th minute as his go six yards out was blocked by Szmodics however the Czech stopper made a miraculous restoration, diving full stretch to tip the shot broad and Ipswich held on.
