Ipswich Town 3-2 Walsall

Aranalde had caught the ball awkwardly and it went on to Ward who picked it up. This gave Town an indirect free kick inside the Walsall area which Bazeley thankfully saved on the line.
It looked like the Saddlers would hold on till half time until Ward mishandled a Naylor cross, allowing Counago in to score.

HT: Town 1-0 Saddlers.

Those who have followed the Saddlers away this season will know they rarely give up the ghost. But you couldn't help but feel that without the Junior and Jorge partnership we were a little blunt up front, and that feeling of the unexpected which we have come to enjoy was absent.
Jorge will always plough his furrow up front, and chase his lost causes, but when linked with Junior an extra dimension comes to his game. But Junior was on the bench, and the opening moments of the second half were not much to watch. Magilton saw his curling shot go over the bar and Town had a few corners that the Saddlers dealt with, and you had to feel that one goal and the Saddlers were back in it.

Any hopes Saddlers fans had of Walsall getting back in to the game must have disappeared when Gaardsoe finally got on the end of a Town Corner on 60 minutes.

Ipswich were on top of the game, and when Darren Wrack converted a Jorge Leitao ball 8 minutes later it came as a surprise to both sides. Thoughts of what happened at Derby earlier on in the season are still fresh in fans minds, when we witnessed the comeback of all comebacks. Ipswich were not about to roll over and let the Saddlers back in to the game and Counago took his chance on the edge of the box well to beat Ward from 18 yards out. At 3-1 with 5 minutes left many would have given up the ghost but Wrack grabbed another goal with just 1 minute left after converting a Bazeley cross.

The Saddlers didn't get their equaliser, and didn't get their points. The last three games have ended in defeat and the gap below isn't getting any smaller.

HT: Town 3-2 Saddlers.