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Ipswich's promotion hopes remain alive after a dramatic draw against Southampton, setting up a final-day showdown. Jack Clarke's late equalizer means Southampton must now focus on the playoffs.
The Championshipâs automatic promotion race will be decided on Saturday. Ipswichâs hopes of killing Millwallâs and Middlesbroughâs chances stone dead were dashed at St Maryâs though this pulsating draw also did for Southampton.
A second half of bedlam had Cyle Larin score a goal that looked to have dashed Kieran McKennaâs hopes of completing the job before the weekend. Jack Clarkeâs lashing finish from the edge of the Southampton box meant Saints must regroup for the playoffs. Clarke rattled a post in the chase for the goal that would all but elevate Ipswich. Instead, QPR, at Portman Road, will decide Ipswichâs destiny. How much more tension can they stand?
Two senior Southampton pros, in the suspended Flynn Downes and injured Jack Stephens, sat nervously chewing gum in the stands, just as they had at Wembley. If losing Saturdayâs semi-final to Manchester City was a disappointment, it had been a close-run thing, a source of Hampshire pride. The setback had not prevented the club continuing their pre-match, 50th anniversary celebrations of the 1976 FA Cup triumph. City were the first team to beat Saints since 17Â January. A 17-game Championship unbeaten streak had taken them from 14th to a live chance of automatic promotion in the final week of the regular season.
Ipswich beware. McKennaâs changes were sweeping, five alterations from Saturdayâs draw with West Brom, another stall on a path to promotion that remained within Townâs gift but had become full of nerves. Just one win in four had slowed re-entry into the Premier League galaxy. The home fans replicated the noise they made at Wembley while those from Suffolk were just as rowdy. Ipswich offered the first threat, Jaden Philogene forcing a low save from Daniel Peretz in the early stages following a quick counterattack, as both teams threw themselves at an equation where a draw was little use to either team. Challenges were full-blooded, those in possession receiving little time to think, as is customary in the full-throttle world of a Championship both clubs wish to escape.
Larin, chasing a fifth goal in five Southampton starts, had his teamâs first real effort, Christian Walton relieved to watch it drift over his crossbar, as he would when Ryan Manning whipped another shot over. Ipswichâs first-half attacks were far more sporadic though, during one flurry, Wes Burns wasted a chance to test Peretz. Another Philogene shot asked more of Saintsâ keeper before Burns was again off target following IvĂĄn AzĂłnâs buzzing run. Finn Azaz, scorer of a Wembley blockbuster, and LĂ©o Scienza, Saintsâ outlet down the left, grew in influence in a period beyond the half-hour mark towards half-time where Ipswich were hemmed back. When Azazâs shot hit Daniel Furlongâs arm from close-range there were penalty shouts, waved away by a referee, Thomas Kirk, growing ever more unpopular with the locals.
The draw keeps Ipswich's promotion hopes alive, requiring a win in their final match to secure automatic promotion.
Jack Clarke scored the equalizing goal for Ipswich, keeping their promotion chances intact.
The draw means Southampton will not achieve automatic promotion and must now prepare for the playoffs.
Ipswich's final match, which will determine their promotion fate, is scheduled for Saturday.
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Cyle Larin celebrates putting Southampton 2-1 up. Photograph: Sean Ryan/IPS/Shutterstock
If Ipswich aimed to escape last-day drama, Southamptonâs equation had been win or bust since drawing with Bristol City last Tuesday. They approached the second half with vigour, Larinâs header forcing a fingertip Walton save. Not that Ipswichâs objectives were unclear. AzĂłnâs header dropped to Burns after a Jacob Greaves interception had begun a well-executed pressing pincer movement. Burnsâ finish was decisive, despite Peretz getting a hand to it.
With even less to lose Southampton surged onwards, and replied quickly. Greaves was booked for a hacking tackle on Azaz on the edge of the box. Manningâs low free-kick zipped through a poorly constructed wall, a deflection off Marcelino NĂșñezâs heel confounding Walton. Game â and multiple promotion possibilities â back on. After Shea Charles whipped a shot over the Ipswich goal, McKenna threw on Kasey McAteer and top-scorer Jack Clarke for Philogene and Burns, seeking freshness in his attack.
George Hirst was also added to the Ipswich attack as the evening, essentially an eliminator for Southampton, took on the frantic dimensions of a playoff. Larin, though, as Ipswich defenders and Walton lost their footing, kept his cool, from Manningâs pass, to score with the outside of his boot and blow the roof off the St Maryâs stands. The strikerâs last act before being substituted would not prove decisive. Both teams have plenty more to stare down.