To find ourselves confirmed in the play-offs with 3 games to go is a fantastic achievement. We’ll enter them in plenty of confidence and should fear no other team. In the remaining games, we have the opportunity to rest a few players and give some of the squad players the chance to find some form whilst resting the likes of Gunter, Cohen and Blackstock who’ve contributed so much this season.

The first half was played with the feel of a pre-season friendly with Forest playing without their usual zip and Ipswich creating a few decent opportunities but lacking the belief that they would ever score.

Once we took a slightly fortunate lead early in the second half, we never looked back and ran out easy winners. Cohen’s free kick found Earnshaw on the edge of the area and his turn and shot found the net via Chambers hip.

Moussi had another decent afternoon for the first seventy minutes and scored a well deserved second goal. He started to feature at both ends of the pitch and it was noticeable that he had a real influence on the game. Things went downhill after he scored with a number of careless passes that always seem to let him down. He still did enough to suggest that we might be able to cope without McKenna in the important games ahead of us.

The scoring was rounded off by Earnshaw after a neat move down the left opened up their defence and we kept the ball alive via Tyson and Blackstock. Another well deserved goal for an afternoon full of endeavour.

There were signs of the old free flowing football as Majewski joined the action and started to link up the midfield and forwards. At the other end, Ipswich still created a number of (mostly wayward) efforts but never really looked like scoring.

As with most of our games this season, it was a real team effort with no one really standing out. MOTM Cohen was one of the few players to perform in both halves and continues to lead by example from midfield.

The back four has a much more solid feel to it with Gunter’s class translated to left back and Chambers obvious improvement with better players around him plus providing a real threat from set pieces. The performances of Wilson and Morgan this season speak for themselves.

The only slight disappointment of the afternoon was the performance of Tyson, who we persisted with down the right hand side for the majority of the game. Time and again he’d find himself in a decent position but got found out by a lack of a decent right foot. He looked much more settled down the left on the few occasions he was allowed to swap sides.

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Tags: Games Won, MOTM Chris Cohen