DAVIS CUP TO CHALLENGE!
Leif’s free-kick caps an epic comeback
SHEFFIELD Wednesday manager Darren Moore liked the way his team did not go under at Ipswich.
The Owls led through goals from Michael Smith and George Byers but the hosts, who saw Conor Chaplin’s penalty saved by goalkeeper Cameron Dawson at 0-0, hit back to earn a point with efforts from Nathan Broadhead and Leif Davis.
Moore said: “The most pleasing thing for me was how the boys stood resolute and stayed in the game and didn’t let the game get away from them.
“Cameron Dawson saves it (the penalty) and we’re still in the game.
“After that, the game plan was to start well and then to get the two goals in the first half really knocked the stuffing out of them.
“The momentum and the atmosphere changed in the ground. I thought the pivotal moment in the game swung when we had a chance to get the third goal.
“If we get the third goal I believe it’s game, set and match.
“Coming down here and taking the game to Ipswich... I thought the boys did it.
“The lifeline for them was a tremendous free-kick scored by Nathan Broadhead.
“It just gave them something to hold on to before half-time.”
Ipswich boss Kieran Mckenna said: “It was a rollercoaster of a game, both teams had spells.
“Of course the big point in the first half was the penalty, we missed an opportunity to get big momentum in the game and push on from there. It gave them a big boost psychologically and spread tension around ourselves and around the ground and that’s doubled when they go and score a fantastic goal really.
“It put us in a difficult situation in the game, we had a really difficult period and can take a lot of positives from the way we came out of that.
“Getting the goal back and going into half-time with the momentum and carrying that on in the second half and delivering a very strong second-half performance.
“There’s not many teams who are going to come back against that Sheffield team, they are strong physically and have a lot of experience and are on a hell of a run so at 2-0 everyone thought we were done.
“I think the players need to take big positivity from that situation and the way we came through it and the way we performed in the second half in general.”