West Bromwich Albion 0 - Ipswich Town 0

Date:	Saturday 25th April 2026
Competition:	Sky Bet Championship
WBA: 7.4	(4-4-2) O'Leary 6.6, Imray 7.7, Furlong 4.4, Phillips 7.2, Campbell 6.8, Styles 7.2, Molumby 7.3, Diakité 7.6, Mowatt 6.7 (Grant, 79 5.6), Price 7.0, Dike 6.8 (Maja, 71 6.0), Heggebø 6.2 (Bany, 88 6.1) Unused subs: Griffiths, Gilchrist, Jimoh-Aloba, Taylor, Bostock, Sule Manager: James Morrison (c) 8.4
Ipswich: 5.9	(3-4-2-1) Walton, Furlong 4.4, O'Shea, Kipré, McAteer (Burns, 75), Matusiwa, Taylor, Greaves, Mehmeti (Núñez, 65), Clarke (Philogene, 65), Azon (Hirst, 75) Unused subs: Palmer, Neil, Cajuste, Johnson, Akpom
Referee:	Matt Donohue 4.5
Attendance:	25,318 Home Fans 8.6 Away Fans 6.2

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oshawabaggie:

Heart still pounding. I thought our dominance for sixty minutes without scoring would come back to bite us. But phew! Safe for another season. Mozza has done a fantastic job. If he's not kept on as manager it will be a travesty. My only criticism today was keeping Heggebo on too long, but hey...

The big question now is who we are going to keep and how we rebuild. But tonight let's celebrate. Boing Boing!

Brendan Clegg:

The points deduction news a couple of days ago, whilst ostensibly ludicrous and absolutely warranting an appeal, meant that this challenging game still had a lot of meaning.

And with Heggebø coming into the 11 for the only change, we set up for the scrap and to take it to them.

And that’s what we did in another entertaining one where we had big chances, might have won it but also suffered spells of pressure and hung on a bit.

First half was two good teams going at it and I felt we edged it.

Ipswich had legs, energy, strength some physicality and some useful players. They had some spells and decent bits of possession; they also had a decent chance via a ball over Campbell in which their player lobbed the onrushing O’Leary but was off target.

But we created the better chances - Kipre looked a bit ropey and Dike capitalised on a dopey moment to nick the ball and draw a great save 1v1, and Phillips powered a big header from a great position straight at their keeper have created the move by striding into their half, playing it wide and getting on the end of it.

Elsewhere, and this might be seen to be very harsh, I was quite frustrated by the number of our players who blew really great situations and opportunities by being a bit ‘olè football’ and trying to do things that are generally beyond them when there was a much simpler option. A bit of over-confidence creeping in?

Examples were a couple of times Molumby trying flicks and losing the ball or that stupid over clever backheel to Styles on the overlap when a simple pass had him in, Diakite trying screamers and hurting his foot in the process, Mowatt’s occasional silly Hollywood ball or to try and dribble through people and even Imray trying the ‘one too many’ dribble when a cross or corner would have been fine.

I also thought Heggebø’s quality was dreadful despite his undoubted industry. His shooting from half chances was poor and his lay off in very good openings, often after his own good hustle and bustle, were just not good enough.

Still, we’d been good again and I was content at half time, reflecting that Ipswich looked decent but that it was another example of how even the league is and just how poor it is overall.

After the break I was expecting the slow start we’ve seen in recent weeks but we had a decent spell and had a couple of big opportunities- a header from a corner that was close and looked like a big chance, and Dike again forcing a good save from a cutback from our right… he probably should have e done better.

You could see the tiredness kick in and for the last 30 mins or so we were sloppy, leggy and just counter-punched when we could.

We needed legs from the bench but took too long to get them on and then, in my opinion, swapped the wrong striker as Dike made way for Maja.

Mozza’s second sub, Mowatt for Grant, I’d have made first and much earlier.

I felt at this point we just couldn’t get any momentum but we did keep running and ground a point out although we were hanging on.Bany came on for Heggebø and in a bit of an alien role did hold the ball okay.

Ipswich had some moments - the best being when their left forward missed a glorious chance at the back stick by kicking the floor.

And the ref was poor I thought - the booking of Campbell for a shoulder-to-shoulder challenge in which his opponent was far more aggressive and jumped into it only to be overpowered was perplexing.

We saw it out with no dramas and ‘settled it on the pitch’ - the players fully deserved the atmosphere generated by the crowd in the last 5 minutes especially and then for the warm lap of appreciation.

10 unbeaten in a run that included many of the top 6 with the players we’ve had available is just incredible, built on the back of a goals against record that would have us competing for the top 2. Let’s hope we end the season in style next week.

O’Leary - 7 Did everything needed. Has no doubt made us better… did spill one though.
Styles - 7 As reliable and energetic both ways. Deserves the player of the season award.
Phillips - 7 Towering, should have scored one today.
Campbell - 7 A couple of errors against a good side but overall very good.
Imray - 8 For me should be our number 1 priority, looks like a real talent to be developed. Can’t imagine it’s gone unnoticed to other clubs.
Price - 7 Another huge effort.
Diakite - 7 Looked powerful and classy around some very good players
Mowatt - 6 Mostly good but the tempo and heat did tire him from about 50 mins
Molumby - 7 a lot to like but needs to cut the over-playing out… it’s not him
Dike - 7 Gave them a bit of a battering
Heggebø - 6 Has he scored under Mozza? He definitely hasn’t scored enough? Runs and battles but we do need more.

Maja, Grant, Bany - They all did fine but we couldn’t get momentum back. Bany needed to cross earlier for that one opp he was put through in.