By Aston
January 8 2006

Ipswich Town slipped out of the FA Cup at the first hurdle yesterday, losing 1-0 to Premiership side Portsmouth.

Despite Town dominating the possession Portsmouth left Portman road with their name in the hat for the draw for the fourth round of the cup on Monday.

 

Gavin Williams fired wide with most of the goal to aim at and that bit of bad luck proved costly as soon after Portsmouth had taken the lead, Dario Silva heading in Matt Taylor’s cross.

 

Lua Lua nearly doubled the visitors leads soon after when he fired just wide of the post after using his skill to leave Naylor in knots, Taylor also came close to extending Portsmouth lead before the half time break.

 

Ten minutes into the second half Danny Haynes was joined up front by Richard Naylor with Sito replacing Magilton and slotting into the defence.

 

Sadly despite Naylor adding physical presence up-front Town failed to score, but did come agonisingly close with De Vos hitting the post, Garvan had his follow up cleared off the line.   

 

Ipswich Squad: Shane Supple, Fabian Wilnis, Richard Naylor, Jason De Vos, Scott Barron, Jim Magilton, Ian Westlake, Matt Richards, Gavin Williams, Danny Haynes, Darren Currie.

Subs: Lewis Price, Kevin Horlock, Luis Sito, Jimmy Juan, Owen Garvan.

 

Portsmouth Squad: S Westerveld, B Priske, D Stefanovic, A O'Brien, G Vignal, G O'Neil, R Hughes, S Diao, M Taylor, L Lua Lua, D Silva.

Subs: A Guatelli, A Karadas, S Todorov, A Cisse, F Songo'o.

	Town 0	Portsmouth 1
Goals	None	Silva (36)
Yellow Cards	Williams	Priske Silva.
Red Cards	None	None
Subs	Sito on for Magilton (56) Garvan on for Richards (56) Juan on for Westlake (81)	Todorov on for Silva (68) Karadas on for LuaLua (89)
Possession	52%	48%
Shots	11	11
Corners	4	6
Fouls	2	18
Attendance: 15593

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