Injury Update
-- Simon Hamilon pulls a hamstring in training and he's going to miss 3-4 weeks. Time for Khan to step up. Hamilton has been great with 7 goals in 16 matches.
-- Turgay Colak and DC Welsh return to full training.
November Update
-- We play on the 2nd, 5th, 9th, 23rd, and 30th.
-- Random negative training report on our 26 y/o Keeper Carlos Antonio. One on One's(13), Reflexes(13) and Decisions(15) all drop.
-- Constantino has won his 3rd straight Player of the Month award. Its ridiculous how much better he is than anyone else in the league right now. 8.22 average rating, #1 in the league is at 7.83.
-- The board is pleased with my leadership. Constantino is the highlight, our 6:2 loss to Coventry is the low point. We lost $2.75M last month.
November 2nd, 2019
Ipswich(8-4-2, 3rd) @ QPR(9-2-3, 1st)
QPR are 5:4 favorites today, we're 7:4 to get a win. This is a huge road match for us at this point in the season, especially coming off that awful loss last week. We're 4-4-3 lifetime against them.
GK: Carlos Antonio
D: Kirkland/McKerr/Henrique/Berthet
M: Hughes/Guarin/Mariga/Gordon
ST: Khan/Constantino
QPR is led by Enrico Rocchini with 10 goals. Donnelly, Mills and Hamilton are all out today and that really hurts us bad against a top team. We're going to counterattack today.
11': Mariga hits Khan with a pretty pass for a goal... but Khan is offsides.
18': Constantino finds a hole in the defense about 25 yard out, Mariga hits him, Constantino has just too much room and he sprints into the area and scores. 1-0
27': Kirkland ahead to Hughes, ahead to Khan, Khan is at the left edge of the area, he centers it for Constantino, Constantino has a man draped all over him but he finds a shot and buries it! 2-0
43': They have a throwin near midfield, quickly send it to a man 25 yards out, a rocket of a shot comes bending in but Carlos Antonio sends it away.
HALF: We've got 10 guys rated 6.8-6.9 and Constantino at 8.7. I'm really really happy with our play here, obviously. We shoot 6 times, 4 on target. They have 3 shots, 2 on target but 2 are from long range. It just seems like all of the highlights are in our favor and the rare time one isn't Carlos Antonio lays out to stop a great shot. Hopefully that loss to Coventry was a big wake up call at just the right time for us.
62': We've seen two highlights so far, both of us attacking and missing long range shots.
64': Mariga with a ball into the area from a good distance, Khan runs onto it perfectly and has a great look, but the keeper saves, not really taken that well.
80': McKerr with a foul about 25 yards out, they shoot on the free kick but its off the wall and behind for a corner. Henrique heads the corner away which is good b/c Carlos Antonio came too far off his line for it and didn't get it.
Its a home clock today, 3 minutes of added time turns into 7 before the whistle is finally blown but we hang on for a strong road win.
QPR 0 : 2 Ipswich
Man of the Match: Constantino (8.8)
Goals: Constantino 2
Assists: Khan (6.8), Mariga (7.8)
Notables: Berthet (7.4), Kirkland (7.5), Henrique (7.2)
We jump QPR for 2nd in the standings with this win. Bristol City wins and takes over first. We're just 1 point behind them.
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