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Walters's Performance Best of the Season - Ipswich Town News

Jon Walters's hat-trick against Bristol City on Saturday helped the striker-turned-midfielder to net the Actim Index highest individual match score of the week and the highest recorded this season. Walters is now second in the overall Index behind team-mate Alan Lee.

Walters, who had scored 20 points in the defeat at Sheffield United, picked up an extraordinary 70 more in the thrashing of the Robins. The previous highest this season was 63 by Watford's Darius Henderson.

The former Chester City man has scored 242 of his 290 points at Portman Road and is 12 points behind team-mate Alan Lee who continues to top the Index on 302.

Town's third-placed player is skipper Jason De Vos, who is on 203 points and is ranked eighth amongst defenders and 28th overall. Dan Harding, 201 points, is ninth highest-scoring defender and 30th overall. Striker Pablo Couñago is the 12th placed striker and in overall 32nd place.

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