U18s at Coventry - Ipswich Town News
Town’s U18s are in action away against Coventry City at The Alan Higgs Centre on Saturday afternoon (KO midday).
The young Blues, who won their last Professional Development League Two South fixture 5-3 against Millwall at Playford Road a fortnight ago via goals from Tyreece Simpson (2), Idris El Mizouni (pictured), Dylan Crowe and Lounes Foudil, are currently second in the table while the Sky Blues are one place off the bottom.
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Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Ipswich Town - Match AbandonedTown look set to face a return trip to Blackburn Rovers later in the season after this afternoon’s game was abandoned after 80 minutes due to a waterlogged pitch with the home side 1-0 up and with the Blues down to 10 men. Jacob Greaves was shown a straight red card four minutes after the break for hauling down Yuki Ohashi, then Rovers skipper Todd Cantwell netted a penalty on 59, but the heavy rain had made the game increasingly farcical the longer it progressed and in the 80th minute referee Stephen Martin took the players off and then 25 minutes later abandoned it entirely.