West Brom end Ipswich's unbeaten run to go fifth

Darnell Furlong gymnastically heads in the opening goal for West Brom against Ipswich

West Brom moved back into the top six of the Championship with a win which brought Ipswich's 12-game unbeaten league run to an end.

Victory also saw Carlos Corberan's team bounce straight back from their first defeat in five games, at Southampton before the international break, and reclaim a place in the play-off places.

Furlong's early balletic header set the ball rolling for the home side and a brilliant, sweeping counter-attack was neatly finished by Diangana soon after half-time to secure the points and inflict Ipswich's first league away defeat since January.

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The game was a meeting of an irresistible home force against an immovable away object, with West Brom garnering more points at home - 50 in the past year under Corberan - than any other Championship team, and Ipswich last losing on their travels in the league at Oxford 10 months ago.

It was the Baggies who got off to a flying start as the impressive Jed Wallace's wicked cross was inches away from the head of the diving Brandon Thomas-Asante.

From the ensuing corner, Matt Phillips curved the ball to the near post and Furlong leapt to guide his header in off the far post.

The Baggies almost doubled their lead when Thomas-Asante had a shot beaten away by Ipswich keeper Vaclav Hladky, but the Tractor Boys fought their way back into the reckoning as Wes Burns fired a good chance over the bar following Conor Chaplin's flick.

Ipswich forced West Brom back at the start of the second half but were caught by a classic counter-punch.

Conor Townsend coolly played the ball out of defence for Wallace, who raced over halfway and slipped the ball to Thomas-Asante, peeling off on his outside. The striker in turn moved the ball on to Diangana and, with the visitors' defence scurrying back, he slid the ball home off the far post.

That killed the game as a contest and the scoreline would have been more emphatic but for an astonishing miss from Phillips.

Wallace was again the creator, hitting the byline and sliding his cross to the Scotland international a few yards out with the goal gaping in front of him. He tried to finish with the outside of his right foot and sent the ball back in the direction from which it had arrived, to keep Ipswich interested.

They could not make a dent as the Baggies moved towards their fourth win in five games and up to fifth place, although Tottenham loanee Dane Scarlett almost created a tense finish by firing a shot narrowly wide near the end of normal time.