Town defender Aaron Cresswell has relived the moment he brought the Portman Road crowd to its feet with a magnificent goal, the second in his side’s vital 3-0 midweek win over Crystal Palace.

Sandwiched between striker Frank Nouble’s first goals for the club, when he took full advantage of horrendous defending by Eagles’ keeper Julian Speroni and central defender Peter Ramage, the former Tranmere left-back’s fabulous strike was good enough to win any team’s Goal of the Season accolade.

It was Cresswell’s fourth of the season and fifth in 92 appearances for Ipswich, to add to half a dozen he netted for his previous club. But the 23-year-old Liverpudlian had no hesitation in nominating it as the pick of the bunch.

Cresswell said: “It’s definitely the best I’ve ever scored and I don’t think I’ll ever hit another one like that. I’m not going to sit here and lie to you — they don’t always go in when I do it in training. I’ve never hit one like that before, not even in training.

“I think it was Gui who headed the ball to me and it just sat up nicely for me. To be fair I hadn’t scored for a while so it was nice to see one finally go into the top corner. As soon as I hit it I knew I’d connected nicely.

“Fortunately for me it flew in. When we do shooting practice with TC and the gaffer I don’t think I’ve ever hit a better one than that.

Town remain the Championship’s lowest goalscorers with 44 in their 43 games so far and Cresswell added: “We haven’t scored as many goals as we would have liked throughout this season.

“DJ got, what was it, 10 goals? We’ve chopped and changed strikers, plus midfield players you could say, but the back four have chipped in with a few goals.

“Luke Chambers has got a couple and Tommy Smith has got four, the same as me, but it doesn’t really matter who scores the goals, as long as we pick up the three points.”

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village_blue added 07:01 - Apr 19 Think that Aarons goal was the best seen at PR since Leighton Baines scored for Wigan the year they were promoted to the Premier League.
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irishtim added 09:04 - Apr 19 Great goal. Hope he scores many more for us. Well done cressy.
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bluefeast added 09:30 - Apr 19 get another on Saturday ,don't care if its a inside of 6 yard box off the shin lucky one. we will need two goals to not lose vs wednesday
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Eggyblues added 10:14 - Apr 19 I completely agree Village Blue, I can still picture that Baines goal very clearly!
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Warkys_Tash added 14:22 - Apr 19 What a belter!!! best shot we have seen down PR in the past 8 seasons..
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gypo added 16:33 - Apr 19 And there's no reason why cressy can't be the next Leighton baines.
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gypo added 16:33 - Apr 19 And there's no reason why cressy can't be the next Leighton baines.
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