Ipswich was officially relegated from the Premier League in St. James’ Park on Saturday afternoon when they were beaten 3-0 by Newcastle United.
The tractor boys had to secure all three points on Tyneside and rely on the Brighton West Ham United to delay their inevitable return to the championship, but the defeat confirmed their downgrading with four games.
Ben Johnson’s red card in the first half turned out to be expensive for visitors, which shortly afterwards fell back with the kind permission of Alexander Isak’s controversial punishment. The second half turned out to be a cake walk for the Magpies, with Dan Burn and William Osula adding the goal line when Newcastle took third place in the table.
How the game unfolds
Eddie Howe returned to the Newcastle Unit after the fight against pneumonia, but the 47-year-old experienced a tame opening of his site in St. James’ Park. Early pressure did not become grateful and Ipswich was the side that produced the better chances without testing Nick Pope.
Despite their territorial dominance, Newcastle could not give up a single shot in the first 25 minutes, but they managed to bundle the ball into the Ipswich network. Alex Palmer’s non -convincing attempt to say a high distraction let the ball bounced off Bruno Guimaraes and beyond the goal line, but the efforts were excluded for a questionable foul on the visit to the goalkeeper.
However, Ipswich’s luck ran out of half -time for eight minutes when Johnson was fired hard. There could be no doubts about his second booking when he dragged Alexander Isak to the lawn, but an earlier yellow card for a dive where Burn made contact with the right -back was unhappy.
The tractor boys were desperate to reach the half -time level and seemed to be able to achieve this after they had replaced the eyo slogans before Sandro Tonali rattled the woodwork, but a soft penalty – which was given by the referee Michael Salisbury after she was sent to the monitor in the fourth minute of the stop time. The button was rotated, was converted.
The result was never doubts after the restart, but the combustion gap between the pages for ten minutes in the second period. Kieran Trippier hovered a teasing cross to the long post, and the colossal frame of the Center Back in Newcastle turned out to be too impressive for the Ipswich-Backline when he went home from three meters.
Newcastle was up to the finish line and there was even time to replace Osula to achieve his first Premier League goal. Another delightful tribus delivery was redirected by the 21-year-old up and over the outstretched Palmer of Palmer when the hosts rubbed further salt in Ipswich wounds.
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Ipswich’s return to the championship was inevitable for a large part of the season, and the confirmation on Saturday was nothing more than a formality. The beginning of the campaign brought the hopes of survival about the surprise, but the tractor boys have been extremely disappointing since the end of the year. Decreasing energy levels and a general lack of quality were the key factors for downgrading.
The team of Kieran McKenna was not quite as bitter as Leicester City and Southampton among them, but their return to the championship is the second season in a row, in which all three newly outdated teams have relegated. The Gulf between the second stage and the Premier League has never been wider.
In the reflection, Ipswich’s transfer model, almost exclusively from the championship from the championship last summer, was a misstep, whereby only a few arrivals showed that they make the leap to the upper flight. But Ipswich fought a loss from the off and lacked the infrastructure to maintain her Premier League status.
A miserable season for Ipswich and her fellow human beings have fired another warning to those who close the gap. The grass is rarely more environmentally friendly in the Premier League.
After Newcastle suffered a blue defeat through Aston Villa last weekend, he had to make an almighty answer to her hopeless visitors on Saturday. Since difficult games are still coming when they are the qualifications of the Champions League – Brighton, Chelsea, Arsenal and Everton, their four remaining opponents are – triumphanting over Ipswich was not negotiable, especially with Chelsea, which used to be won.
They took time to discover their mojo in front of a rough home, but finally took their step towards the end of the first half – with more than a little help from the officials. Johnson’s red card demonstrated the turning point when Newcastle besieged the target of Ipswich and appeared to her visitors until an opening over the penalty point.
As expected, expected against the ten men from Ipswich and proved to be remarkably uncomplicated for the Magpies when they strolled to victory. The result increases them back to third place – only Nottingham Forest has a game in their hands – and takes them to an extremely strong position to achieve a return to Europe’s top table next season.
To stay unnoticed is the dream of the Premier League referee, but Salisbury didn’t have Tyneside so happy. The man with the pipe was the central figure in a dramatic first half, in which he excluded a Newcastle Opener, dismissed an Ipswich player and a criminal call with the help of Var ascent.
All decisions are examined. Guimaraes’ inadmissible goal was probably only a case of weak goal maintenance from Palmer. Johnson’s first booking for a dive was the wrong call. Newcastle punishment for a train against Jacob Murphy was quite soft and hardly the kind of decision that Var was introduced for surveillance.
It was not an easy day for Salisbury and his team.