Ipswich did not have their top, second-top or third top scorers on the field and still led 2-0 during the break. How spicy as the Chelsea comeback was then, the results like Rogue if this will not do if the side of Enzo Maresca must satisfy their desire for Champions League football.
Match report
Everyone involved in that race for a top-five finish realizes that she fails, especially when even their opponents realize that they are on their way to relegation to the championship.
Chelsea has one of the more challenging Run-ins and Ipswich at home would be gentle. Instead, it was an afternoon where the supporters of Stamford Bridge showed their frustration, a few who sent a few anti -aircraft weather to Maresca for his football style.
They were 2-0 behind the break by Julio Enciso and Ben Johnson, and came back in through Axel Tuanzebe's own goal and a Jadon Sancho Screamer.
Chelsea would have won it at the end if it was not for Palmer. Alex, that's. Not Cole. Fans are used to hearing that Palmer has won the man-of-the-match award here. But this time it was the keeper of Ipswich who was worth an achievement that was worth that award.
They were his sensational stops in the final phase, which meant that Chelsea dropped two valuable points in their attempt to take a place in Europe in the best competition in Europe.
Liam Delap, Omari Hutchinson and Sammie Szmodics were the top three goal scorers of Ipswich, responsible for 19 of their 31 Premier League goals this season. Nobody could start here. Delap was the biggest surprise after a rib injury on the midweek. After all, this should be an audition, in which Chelsea is considering signing the 22-year-old striker this summer.
In the absence of so many sources of goals, it helps to have a generous opposition goalkeeper who will create the strange opportunity on your behalf. It took four minutes for Robert Sanchez to give away his first ball while trying to pass from the back. He played directly to Jack Clarke, who skied his chance in the Matthew Harding stand when he should have done better.
Unlike that, were the first 15 minutes of Chelsea, with the statistics that say that 47 percent of the action was played in the third of Ipswich. The closest nearby was that Nicolas Jackson took the post after the pass from Enzo Fernandez from the right side.
The volley of Noni Madueke was only stopped at the fingertips of Alex Palmer, the header of Levi Colwill was too close to the goalkeeper of Ipswich and Cucurella sent a 20 -meter strike to heaven.
Then Ipswich hit a counterattack in the 19th minute after Fernandez lost the ball. George Hirst rode brilliantly forward before he gave it to the overlapping Johnson. He sent it into the box where Colwill had fallen asleep, which had to tap Enciso 1-0.
It was the first entrance of Ipswich in the Chelsea box and they led out.
After 31 minutes it was 2-0 and it came from a Chelsea target kick. As usual, Sanchez was working to pass from behind, but the fans were frustrated by it. Sod it, Sanchez seemed to say to himself. He launched it in half of Ipswich for a long time. But the ball immediately returned to Chelsea, via the heads of Sam Morse and then Hurst.
Clarke left that to pick up possession. He went to Enciso, who crossed to Ben Johnson to go into the opposite corner. The new offside technology of the Premier League checked it and the goal was good. There were 16 seconds between Sanchez's goal kick and the header of Johnson.
Chelsea tried to get back to play before half -time, if only to reduce the anger that inevitably came up on their side. Cole Palmer started an attack with a nice pass behind Ipswich. Pedro Neto could have shooted. Marc Cucurella could have. Madueke could have. Nobody did it. It was a comedy of mistakes that could survive Ipswich, which initially seemed like a lively move.
“Oi, Maresca, this is boring,” a supporter shouted at the press box when the first half ended. Ipswich had managed two shots on goal and scored two goals. They now led 4-0 on aggregate if we counted their victory over Portman Road.
Eighteen seconds in the restart, it was 2-1, when Madueke showed his speed when driving in the box and forced his own goal from Tuanzebe, who tried to prevent Cucurella to be tapped.
Ipswich could still smell a counter-attack goal for himself, because Hurst came around twice, first from 25 meters and then a free header that he could not direct. As for Chelsea, Palmer had a doll from a distance, but he kept looking a shadow of his former self.
After 64 minutes, Chelsea's 28th cross of the afternoon came through open play. In no other Premier League match they had produced more this season, so we gave an idea of how they hoped to find a way through the defensive wall of Ipswich. Fernandez thought he had a tap-in from such a ball in the box of Sancho, but Conor Townsend calculated his approval perfectly.
Sancho had no longer scored for Chelsea since 8 December. You could imagine why a few fans were less than satisfied when he replaced the lively Madueke. But in the 79th minute the loan of Manchester United Pure Brilliance produced. He was 16 meters from the goal and curled a beauty in the top corner for 2-2.
Delap emerged from the couch and he showed exactly why so many lovers – including Chelsea – depicted him this summer when he won up and won a corner.
When Cucurella was polluted by Morsy, Chelsea had their set piece a chance to score. Trevoh Chalobah led it from two meters and yet it was saved.
In stop time it was Palmer versus Palmer, the maker of Chelsea against the Ipswich stopper. The 22-year-old Englishman curled one, but his counterpart pushed him wide.
Seconds later, Fernandez thought he had taken the winner himself, only for Palmer to produce a still spectacular stop. With that it ended completely square.
Match -Events
0 'The game is about to start!
5 'Huge mistakes from Sanchez
8 'First big chance for Chelsea! Jackson is posting! Near
10 'Good ball from Jackson to find Neto
12 'Madueke hits the side net
14 'Highlight of Chelsea vs Ippswich Town
18 'Colwill goes close to a header!
19 'Johnson plays the ball about the area for Enciso to poke in !! Chelsea 0-1 Ipswich Town
30 'Cajust's Shot Wid Eout
31 'Ben Johnson with his first city goal !! Chelsea 0-2 Ipswich Town
37 'Cucurella delivers to Madueke who skirts!
45 'Caicedo's shot wide out
46 'Own goal! Own goal! Chelsea withdraws one! Chelsea 1-2 Ipswich Town (Tuanzebe)
46 'Gusto is coming
53 'Hirst with a shoot, but it goes outside and wide
58 'Match event for Chelsea vs Ippswich Town
68 'Sub: Sancho On
76 'Highlight of Chelsea vs Ippswich Town
79 'Jadon Sancho fires in the top corner! Chelsea 2-2 Ipswich Town
85 'Delap drives the ball solo away from Chalobah to win a corner for Ipswich
93 'Long shot from Palmer
95 'Match event for Chelsea vs Ippswich Town
Line-ups
Chelsea XI: Adarabioyo, Cucurella, Trevoh Chalobah, Robert Sánchez, Pedro Neto, Cole Palmer, Madueke, Enzo, Caicedo, Colwill, Nicolas Jackson
Subs: nunku, Sancho, Reece James, Dewsbury-Hall, Badiashile, Jørgensen, Gusto, Josh Acheampong, Tyrique George
Ipswich Town XI: Sam Morsy, Cameron Burgess, Alex Palmer, Tuanzebe, O'Shea, George Hirst, Ben Johnson, Jens Cajustste, Jack Clarke, Leif Davis, Julio Enciso
Subs: M. Luongo, Conor Townsend, Christian Walton, Nathan Broadhead, Conor Chaplin, Luke Woolfenden, Jaden Philogene, Liam Delap, Jack Taylor
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