Ipswich 1-3 Fulham: Harry Wilson, Rodrigo Muniz and Tom Cairney strike as Premiership side ease past Kieran McKenna's second string to reach last eight of Carabao Cup

Fulham tin beryllium forgiven for emotion arsenic though a fourth-round travel to Portman Road was for illustration stepping into nan oculus of a large wind connected a nighttime erstwhile Storm Ciaran threatened to batter parts of nan nation.

There was nary motion of immoderate howling upwind aliases torrential rainfall successful East Anglia. Yet nan visitors merit credit, nonetheless, for weathering nan hurricane that is Kieran McKenna’s Ipswich, particularly connected their turf.

To put it simply, Ipswich do not suffer connected location soil. It’s astir clip to haul nan Christmas decorations from nan loft and still nan Tractor Boys person only mislaid erstwhile astatine Portman Road successful 2023.

In that time, 18 sides person near pinch their tails betwixt their legs. Some swept aside, others blown away. But Fulham proved nan cleanable large wind chasers and proved excessively beardown for nan hosts to withstand.

The early informing signs were location erstwhile nan Premier League broadside went up wrong nan opening 10 minutes. Few wrong Portman Road will person seen their broadside carved unfastened successful nan mode they were for Harry Wilson’s opener for a agelong time.

The hosts ne'er threatened to group up a nervy finish, pinch Rodrigo Muniz and Tom Cairney putting nan crippled retired of show early successful nan 2nd half for Fulham.

Substitute Elkan Baggott helped to soften nan rustle of this conclusion pinch a precocious consolation but Ipswich will dearly dream this conclusion proves to beryllium inconsequential successful their promotion push.

The truth they tin moreover beryllium successful nan speech for a return to nan Premier League conscionable a fewer months connected from being promoted from nan 3rd tier of English shot is singular successful itself.

But this was a small sensation of what they could triumph should they return to nan apical formation aft much than 2 decades successful nan wilderness.

Credit to Marco Silva’s side, who treated this conflict pinch nan utmost professionalism. With McKenna opting to make 11 changes, Fulham’s slick shot was excessively overmuch for nan hosts’s second-string broadside to handle.

Too galore passes went astray, excessively galore 2nd balls dropped to men successful achromatic shirts. In nan Championship, you tin get distant pinch specified slip-ups. Not against Premier League opposition, though, and wrong 10 minutes, nan hosts duly recovered themselves behind.

Forward Rodrigo Muniz refused to beryllium muscled disconnected nan shot his marker and knocked nan shot in-field to Bobby De Cordova-Reid, taking 3 Ipswich defenders retired successful nan process.

De Cordova-Reid had 2 options. A tempting shot done to Andreas Pereira, who was racing from a cardinal position towards goal. But moreover much tantalising was nan acres of abstraction that Wilson recovered himself successful complete nan acold side.

With Ipswich keeper Christian Walton charging retired of his container successful a futile effort astatine closing down nan angle, Wilson chopped past nan stranded gloveman and passed nan shot into an quiet net.

Ipswich’s persistence to support nan precocious property which has served them truthful good nether McKenna was to beryllium admired, yet nan easiness astatine which Fulham trim done made it look naive astatine times. The hosts were fortunate to spot Fode Ballo-Toure’s transverse deflect onto nan barroom conscionable minutes aft falling behind.

Silva’s broadside were fixed an almighty scare erstwhile goalkeeper Marek Rodak’s dozy walk was intercepted but he was connected defender to extremity Kayden Jackson’s effort astir nan post. In response, Pereira hammered an effort from 30 yards conscionable wide for nan distant side.

McKenna’s broadside person travel to gain nan moniker of comeback kings aft doing conscionable that successful nan erstwhile information against Wolves and successful nan convention against Plymouth connected Saturday.

But wrong 5 minutes of nan 2nd half, that looked improbable moreover for them arsenic Pereira’s cleanable shot crossed nan container near Muniz pinch nan simplest of tap-ins astatine nan acold post.

Fulham skipper Cairney put nan consequence of nan necktie beyond uncertainty aft firing past Walton from wrong nan box, earlier substitute Baggott's consolation from a area for nan hosts.