Let’s be clear that we actually do not need to revel on this in any respect. We have all had these nightmare moments at work and first impressions which have gone awry.
However nonetheless… the trifecta of getting a pink card, scoring an personal purpose and making a gift of a penalty is uncommon sufficient for a staff, not to mention a single participant. That is has solely occurred as soon as earlier than in Premier League historical past, to Southampton’s Jan Bednarek within the 9-0 loss to Manchester United in February 2021 – and so by no means earlier than to a debutant within the competitors earlier than Saturday.
Ipswich City’s Harry Clarke was the unfortunate get together, and the sympathy in his route is barely amplified by supervisor Kieran McKenna’s admission that the academy graduate wouldn’t have performed had been it not for an harm disaster.
Harry Clarke completes the worst of trinities within the Premier League
That pressured Ipswich to hurry Clarke again from a long-term harm of his personal after having an operation to handle an Achilles harm in the summertime.
Winless Ipswich went 2-0 up away to Brentford within the thirty first minute courtesy of Sammi Szmodics and George Hirst, however conceded a rapid-fire double to Yoane Wissa and Clarke’s personal purpose simply earlier than half time.
Bryan Mbeumo pulled up his eighth purpose of the season and gave Ipswich lower than six minutes after the restart, changing after Clarke hauled Keane Lewis-Potter down contained in the penalty field – and was booked within the course of.
A second bookable foul on Lewis-Potter on 69 minutes meant Clarke acquired his marching orders, including as much as what should be one of many worst-ever Premier League debuts.
A nasty day for Clarke individually changed into a nightmare for Ipswich, too, as substitute Liam Delap equalised 4 minutes from time just for Mbeumo to win it for Brentford in harm time with a cross that snuck previous Arijanet Muric.
The consequence leaves newly-promoted Ipswich within the backside three with simply 4 factors from their first 9 video games again within the prime flight.
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A sympathetic McKenna stated of Clarke after the sport: “It’s his Premier League debut and he’s not began a recreation since April, so he’ll get loads of assist from us.
“He did some good issues within the recreation — there have been some good issues in his efficiency — however there have been a number of issues, after all, a number of defensive moments that he’ll need to do higher on and he’ll be disillusioned with.
“However he’s a younger participant making his Premier League debut, getting back from a really massive harm, and due to accidents we now have we’ve needed to throw him just about straight into the staff, the place ideally he’ll have had an extended interval of possibly coming off the bench.
“Like all of our gamers and our tradition, he’ll take his mistake on the chin I’m certain and look to study from it, work tougher and work laborious on these issues in coaching and are available again once more sturdy.”
Ipswich will return to Premier League motion on Saturday as they host final yr’s Championship promotion rivals Leicester Metropolis.
