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Ipswich Town vs Cardiff City. Sky Bet Championship.

Portman RoadAttendance13,205.

Ipswich Town 0

    Cardiff City 1

    • K Zohore (65th minute)

    Ipswich 0-1 Cardiff: Bluebirds maintain promotion hunt

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    Highlights of the Sky Bet Championship clash between Ipswich and Cardiff

    Cardiff moved four points clear of the chasing pack in the Sky Bet Championship promotion race as Kenneth Zohore's scrambled goal earned a 1-0 win at Ipswich.

    The striker almost collapsed onto the ball before prodding in after 65 minutes as Neil Warnock's second-placed side boosted their promotion prospects.

    Ipswich had plenty of the play but could not find a response after sliding behind and they remain lodged in mid-table. The visitors forced a corner in the first minute of the game and the delivery from Joe Ralls fell to Matthew Connolly whose shot went just past the left-hand post.

    Ipswich pressed forward and in the 14th minute neat interplay between Luke Hyam, Grant Ward and Bersant Celina led to a crossfield ball which Jordan Spence just failed to make clean contact with.

    The hosts' first corner arrived in the 26th minute which was headed wide by Adam Webster. Two minutes later, the ball was fired up-field for Sears to chase and he laid the ball off for Ward, whose 25-yard shot was pushed wide by Neil Etheridge.

    A free-kick by Luke Chambers in the 36th minute was played wide to Jonas Knudsen whose pass to Hyam was blocked in the penalty area and then a shot from Sears from just inside the box was deflected wide for a corner.

    Ipswich were on top and another corner was headed goalwards by Spence, but Joe Ralls was on the goal line to head clear.

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    The Tractor Boys won a corner in the second minute of the restart which was taken by Celina and found the head of Webster, who sent the ball just over the bar from inside the six-yard box.

    Webster fouled Junior Hoilett 35 yards from goal as the Welsh side tried to exert some pressure on a solid-looking Ipswich defence in the 58th minute, and a cross from Hoilett three minutes later found Zohore whose goalbound shot was blocked.

    Cardiff took the lead seven minutes later in bizarre fashion when a free-kick by Ralls found Zohore. The striker fell when trying to connect with the ball but managed to get back to his feet and find the left corner, beating Bartosz Bialkowski.

    Four minutes later, Hoilett found Zohore unmarked in the penalty area and he headed just over the bar as the visitors gained control of the game.

    The managers

    Mick McCarthy: "I thought the lads were excellent and gave everything as usual, they were just very, very good. Having lost a few players in the last few days the ones who came in I thought they were great. Playing against 6ft 5in centre forwards they may beat one or two of my players in the air and I thought it was a soft free-kick (which led to the Cardiff goal).

    "I was delighted with the team and they gave everything and I was very pleased with the front three. I thought they were very good."

    Neil Warnock: "I thought [Gary Madine] changed the game when he came on and Zohore is never going to get a nice sweet strike with his left foot it's always going to be an awkward, horrible bouncy thing and I love to see them go in and it was great, especially with our fans being down the end he scored. He fell down and got up quick and he enjoyed the pressure off him a little bit with Gary playing there.

    "But I thought Mick's lads put a good shift in and he should be proud of them, there was not much wrong with their effort. But it was fantastic to come here and get three points."

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