{"id":885429,"date":"2026-04-10T21:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/885429\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T21:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:02:15","slug":"u21s-win-at-birmingham-ipswich-town-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/885429\/","title":{"rendered":"U21s Win at Birmingham &#8211; Ipswich Town News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U21s Win at Birmingham<br \/>Friday, 10th Apr 2026  21:09<\/p>\n<p class=\"introtext\" style=\"font-size:1.1em\">Town\u2019s U21s returned to winning ways via a comfortable 3-0 victory away against Birmingham City at Stratford Town\u2019s Arden Garages Stadium. <\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">The Blues, winless in their last two, took the lead in the 18th minute through Josh Pitts (pictured), then seven minutes later the home side missed a penalty, Zaid Betteka shooting wide from the spot after Luca Fletcher had fouled William Burrell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">Four minutes before the break, Charlie Compton made it 2-0, then two minutes into first-half injury time Fletcher added the third.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/19130_g.jpg\" style=\"max-width:580px;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">The win moves the Blues up to fourth in Premier League 2 with one regular season game left to play having started the day seventh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">The top 16 &#8211; in which Town are already guaranteed to finish &#8211; then go into the elimination play-offs, the team which is first facing the side in 16th, second the team in 15th and so on. The winners of those ties go through to quarter-finals, semi-finals and then a final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">In addition, the teams in the top 16 are invited to take part in the Premier League International Cup\u00a0next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">U21s: Williamson, Elliott (Mthunzi 62), Boniface, Shabazz-Edwards, Wilkinson, Carr, Mendel (Lewis 69), Compton, L Fletcher (Eldred 69), Runham, Pitts (Nicolaou 62). Unused: Barrett.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: TWTD<\/p>\n<p>Please report offensive, libellous or inappropriate posts by using the links provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U21s Win at BirminghamFriday, 10th Apr 2026 21:09 Town\u2019s U21s returned to winning ways via a comfortable 3-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[14889,855,14893,12733,748,14894,393,94,14890,8641,14891,4884,14887,1926,14888,25956,14892,12,125,14895,14897,14896,16,15],"class_list":["post-885429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-alf-ramsey","tag-birmingham","tag-blogs","tag-bobby-robson","tag-britain","tag-chatroom","tag-england","tag-football","tag-football-club","tag-football-news","tag-forum","tag-great-britain","tag-ipswich","tag-ipswich-town","tag-itfc","tag-kieran-mckenna","tag-message-board","tag-news","tag-polls","tag-portman-road","tag-tractor-boys","tag-tractorboys","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116382437137377406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}