Raya 6 - Didn’t have much to do and made a bit of a pig’s ear out of the only real time he was called upon


Timber 8 - Made Cucurella look like a clown (granted that doesn’t take much)


Saliba 7 - Solid and largely untroubled


Gabriel 7 - Gave Neto nothing


Lewis-Skelly 7 - Solid, showed positional discipline


Partey 7 - Didn’t have much to do defensively, played a couple of good balls forward


Rice 7.5 - Tried to make things happen, good work rate


Odegaard 7 - Probably should have done better when through on goal but laid chances on for others


Martinelli 7 - Still looks raw but he did cause trouble with his pace


Trossard 5 - In his trying too hard phase again, needs to ballooning his shots


Merino 7.5 - Probably didn’t intend to score with his flicked header, but very good control and shot that needed a good save from Sanchez


Subs

Nwaneri 7 - Should have started

Tierney N/A - Game was dead when he came on



This was Ipswich without the stodginess, an XG of 0.75 shows that we really didn’t do all that much going forwards. I don’t think it’s a case of being too conservative (the coach is, but I don’t think the players were) but just still very much lacking confidence in front of goal. Timber probably the best player on the pitch, and frankly I think he’s very much a contender for player of the season for us. Not because he’s been brilliant but he’s been consistently decent (which rather sums up this unspectacular season)

This game rather sums up the season, flickering embers…a season that’s never really got going in order for it to fall apart.

With the exception of a second choice keeper, any money that’s spent other than on creative and attacking areas will be money wasted.