Town's preparations for the new season hit a bump as they were beaten 3-0 at Tottenham Hotspur.

Boss Paul Lambert fielded two separate sides on their first visit to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and it was the first-half XI which suffered the most as they conceded three goals in the opening 30 minutes.

Ryan Sessegnon and Son Heung-min's brace did the damage for Jose Mourinho's side, which was full of international quality in the first 45 minutes.

The Blues contributed to their own pain, though, as some poor defending gifted Spurs two goals.

Town stuck to their guns, but rarely looked like ever breaching the home defence.

The positive is that Ipswich will not have to come up against an attack like they did in the opening 45 minutes in League One.

Dele Alli, Lucas Moura and Son all started for Spurs and that quality quickly showed as they opened up a two-goal lead in the opening 10 minutes, though Ipswich were masters of their own downfall for both goals.

The opener came in the sixth minute when Spurs broke following a Town attack breaking down and Dele Alli played in Sessegnon, who cut inside and slotted a low shot past David Cornell and into the bottom corner.

Cornell, making his first appearance for the Blues having signed on Monday, had to take the blame for the second goal three minutes later as he produced a suicidal piece of goalkeeping.

Trying to play out from the back, his pass was intercepted by Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, allowing Alli to tee up Son for an easy finish.

There was nothing much they could do about the third goal on the half-hour as a piece of quality from Juan Foyth cut the defence open.

His fine through ball set Son clear and the South Korean finished with aplomb.

It was hard for Lambert's men, but they stuck to their guns although could not test Hugo Lloris in the Spurs goal.

The second half brought a mass change, with 11 fresh faces coming on for Town.

Brett McGavin was one of them, but he lasted less than 20 minutes before being replaced by Jon Nolan, making his first appearance of pre-season.

Kayden Jackson brought some energy at the top of the pitch while their first serious effort came midway through the second half when Freddie Sears latched on to a loose ball but his shot flew over Joe Hart's crossbar.

Ipswich continued to work hard, but could not make headway against a Spurs side that was largely made up of younger players, including former Blues loanee Cameron Carter-Vickers, by the full-time whistle.

Town are next in action on Tuesday afternoon when the face West Ham in their only home friendly of pre-season.

Tottenham: Lloris (c) (Hart 46 (Gazzaniga 74)), Foyth (Carter-Vickers 46), Alderweireld, Davies Cirkin 46), Sessegnon, Winks (Devine 71), Hojbjerg (White 64), Gedson, Dele (Bowden 74), Lucas (Scarlett 71), Son (Clarke 46).

Town first half: Cornell, Vincent-Young, Nsiala, Woolfenden, Ward (c), Skuse, Bishop, Judge, Dobra, Edwards, Drinan.

Town second half: Holy, Donacien, Chambers, Ndaba, Kenlock, McGavin (Nolan 64), Downes, Dozzell, Lankester, Jackson, Sears. Subs: Smith, Folami, El Mizouni.

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Linkboy13 added 20:02 - Aug 22 Agree upthetown 1970 young Gibbs is the best prospect at the club, but physically he's not ready yet. Town have got a history of blooding young players too early which has ended up with them getting injured ,Dozzell, Nydam, Lancaster, Bishop etc.
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Essexnblue added 20:32 - Aug 22 The scorelline does not worry me one little bit, we know that we have to improve in many ways and need many new players, however the kids will have learned from today which is the real winner. I hope they learn again from West Ham on Tuesday and then play 2 more Premier league teams before we start the important stuff. I am sick of wiping the floor with ColU and Irish reserve teams and then arriving at the season start all cool and high as a kite and then getting whipped by clubs who have played better opposition. The better the opposition then the higher the bar, one thing even Lambert can boast about. COYB.

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Bert added 22:49 - Aug 22 @Timmy H- we are all forlorn at where we are but far better in life to think positively than looking back. PL is not everyone's cup of tea, but if you are a life long supporter you want your team to do better and improve whereas too many detractors are only happy to be cynically rubbishing their club. Don't let that be you. PL does go on a bit but does it really matter ?
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Lathers added 00:23 - Aug 23 We were playing a near enough full strength Spurs team so why didn't we start with our best XI? Why wasn't Downes, Jackson, Lankester, Chambers and Holy starting? I'm concerned that Lambert is still persevering with Nsiala. He's not good enough for L1 but he starts him against Spurs??? Obviously it's an irrelevant result but after last season I'm still concerned that Lambert hasn't got a clue who his best XI really are and today should have been about putting out his best team... if he's knows what that is?

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eddiespearitt03 added 01:43 - Aug 23 Skuse doing the usual shift of chasing shadows and part of a 5 man defence. We are a League One side and there is no need to employ a defensive anchorman anymore. The sooner we have a more enterprising 4-4-2 the sooner we may challenge for promotion.
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FreddySteady added 09:50 - Aug 23 Only seen the highlights so not much to go on. A tad harsh on blaming the goalie for the second goal as the back pass didn't leave him that much choice though he could have launched it. Defence seemed to be out of position a few times. Hopefully our youngsters are up for the season.
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grow_our_own added 09:57 - Aug 23 "Why wasn't... Chambers... starting? I'm concerned that Lambert is still persevering with Nsiala." - @Bert, you have Chambers and Nsiala above Ndaba? We've got one proven central defender (Woolfenden), C & Nsiala are League One best. Worth trying Ndaba as #2 centre-back on the teamsheet IMO.
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Northstandveteran added 12:14 - Aug 23 Absolutely Freddiesready. Defenders passing the ball back and forth across the penalty area, keeper passes it to Skuse who is unaware the spurs man is coming fast from behind. No innuendo intended.
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