Ipswich and a halfway target
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Former Ipswich Town player Mick Mills discussed Ipswich's 2-1 win over Wolves on the recent episode of BBC Radio Suffolk's Final Whistle: "We win that corner kick and with only 20 seconds to go of injury time, there's only going to be two results, more likely a draw, but there's a possibility if we hit the corner kick right that we could win the game. It's a nice position to be in all of a sudden.
"Jack Clarke takes the corner kick it's a decent corner kick, but there's a lot of attention on our normal headers of the ball, Liam Delap, Cameron Burgess, Dara O'Shea, people like that. Jack Taylor sort of just makes a little move, but his header is a really good one. He's met it nicely. It's got terrific direction right down to the corner and it's a lovely goal and a fabulous celebration. It was marvellous stuff. We've been on the receiving end of that so many times this season, so it's nice.
"You and I will go back to Ipswich. The team and management will go back and they won't care two monkeys on how it was achieved, it's been achieved. This was an important win. I would have taken a draw before the game and five minutes from the end, but we've got ourselves three points and all of a sudden we're creeping and I mean creeping towards what is a realistic target for the halfway stage in this division to stay up because the real average is about 34 points over the previous five or six years, that's your target. I have a feeling it might be lower this year, so you're talking about 17 points, we have 12 with three games until the halfway stage. I know those three [games] are difficult, but we could beat Newcastle at home and we could be getting very close to our target. It's been a massive win.
"These moments with Conor Chaplin scoring his first goal last week in the Premier League, Jack Taylor scoring his first goal, Ali Al-Hamadi making a first appearance, things like this are incredible."
On Ipswich facing Newcastle next weekend: "I'm looking forward to it. It's a game I've wanted to see once we achieved promotion. I have every admiration for their manager. I put Eddie Howe in the same category as Kieran McKenna. They are clever men. Funnily enough, it's a game I think we could do well in and this result has helped us, without question. We might have a confidence in playing Newcastle more than we have in playing the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea and that calibre. If we can win it will give everyone a great Christmas."
