Wednesday, 29 October 2025

Could not take all the points

Tuesday 28 October 2025, Ipswich Town Under 21s 2 Preston North End Under 21s 2 - Premier League Cup, Group game, Bloomfields, Needham Market FC


Second visit to Needham this season, but first with the new Grandstand open - a big improvement on the old one, but do actually miss the wooden bench seating.


Larger crowd than at the U21 games held at Colchester, I for one, would rather see Ipswich invest in the facilities at Needham or Felixstowe rather than hire Colchester United for U21 and Ipswich Women games.


Preston started well but Ipswich soon found themselves two up with both goals coming from Jamie Mauge, a local Ipswich lad whose dad (Ronnie) played professionally for a number of clubs, mainly at Bury and Plymouth.


This was the Ipswich U21 Second XI, as only 3 players who started  against Brighton started today but it was still disappointing how in the second half they could not finish the game off and it was Preston who finished the stronger, getting one goal back from the penalty spot and then getting an equaliser late on.

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