Jack Clarke scored in the 16th minute of stoppage time from the penalty spot as Ipswich rescued a 2-2 draw with Derby at Portman Road as both sides searched for their first win of the new campaign. Jacob Greaves gave the home side the lead from a header direct from a corner in the 33rd minute, but former Norwich striker Carlton Morris drew the sides level from the penalty spot after 50 minutes.
Ipswich had claims for what appeared to be a foul in the penalty area by Matt Clark on George Hirst controversially turned down by referee Lee Doughty, and Derby went ahead through a fine strike by Rhian Brewster after 70 minutes.
However, after David Ozoh was adjudged to have fouled Jack Taylor deep in added time, Clarke stepped up to ram the ball home to snatch a point. Championship highlights | Table | FixturesAll you need to know – Streaming Sky Sports with NOW | Get Sky SportsDownload the Sky Sports App to watch every Sky Sports+ gameLive EFL on Sky Sports+ & how to watch | Get more EFL to your phone with WhatsAppThe visitors were awarded a free-kick just outside the penalty area after three minutes when Greaves was adjudged to have fouled Bobby Clark, but Brewsters fierce strike deflected off the Ipswich defensive wall.
Town won their first corner after 28 minutes and Ashley Youngs cross found Greaves, who climbed high only for his effort to go over the crossbar. A snap shot from Conor Chaplin was then deflected for a corner, which resulted in Ipswich taking the lead.
It was the same combination for the set-piece with Greaves perfectly positioned at the far post to head the ball over the goal-line. But Derby drew level five minutes after the restart from the penalty spot.
Brewster broke free on the Ipswich goal only for Davis to handle the ball, and Morris stepped up to convert the spot-kick by sending Alex Palmer the wrong way. The referee got the Portman Road faithful into a frenzy when he failed to point to the spot for Ipswich when Derby centre-back Clarke appeared to catch the foot of Hirst, with the striker being shown a yellow card.
The visitors took the lead in the 70th minute through a fine goal from Brewster. It came from a kick downfield by goalkeeper Jacob Zetterstrom, which came off the chest of Dara OShea, before the Derby striker picked up the ball and ran through on goal to shoot past Palmer and into the far corner of the net.
A stinging 25-yard shot from substitute Chuba Akpom 25 had Zetterstrom diving acrobatically across his goal as the ball sailed narrowly wide. Deep into time added, Ozoh fouled Taylor in the penalty area and Clarke stepped up to convert from 12 yards and share the spoils.
The managersIpswichs Kieran McKenna: There was probably two different phases to the game; it was another step up in performance but the main thing I can really criticise us for is not being 2-0 up with the chances and the territory we are getting.
Still in our final execution we really need to turn our domination and a good performance into goals, and then there was the phase after their goal. Theres a lot to learn from it, it shows how quickly a game in the Championship can turn especially against some of the more direct teams.
From there to the end of the game it was probably the most broken, lowest ball in play that I have been involved in. It was barely a football match made worse by a bad refereeing decision that should have given us the opportunity to go 2-1 up, but us conceding a really poor goal on another long ball that we do not defend well enough.
There was almost no ball in play for most of the time and we were not able to get any rhythm in the game to build any attacks that we wanted to build. Derbys John Eustace: I thought the first half-an-hour we were excellent.
We really took the game to a top team and held our own, but we conceded a sloppy goal and when we conceded, Ipswich had some pressure. But we regrouped and came out like we started the first half and scored two good goals.
Not to see the game out is really disappointing. Its hard for me to comment on what I want to say but to get 14-15 extra minutes that might be a world record for time added, but what an effort from the group.
For the last 10 minutes, we were under the cosh and defended the box really well. You look at the talent they brought off the bench and the way we matched them and defended really well this afternoon, but obviously disappointed not to get the three points.
