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Quartet Return for Millwall Trip - Ipswich Town News

Boss Mick McCarthy has confirmed that Aaron Cresswell, Luke Chambers, Cole Skuse and Daryl Murphy will all be fine for Saturday’s trip to Millwall, however, skipper Carlos Edwards and Tyrone Mings are doubts with knocks suffered at Preston.

Cresswell was suffering with fluid on his knee, Chambers with a tight hamstring, Skuse from a dead leg and Murphy from a thigh injury, all four missing the FA Cup replay defeat at Deepdale.

"Cressy and Chambo are fine, they’ve trained today," McCarthy said. "But, as I explained, they’d just got little niggling injuries and I wasn’t going to risk them. They’re fine, they both trained.

"Skusey’s trained today, fine. Murph has had his first day back with the squad and he’s fine, he’s all right.”

Midfielder Luke Hyam is also OK, despite suffering a knock at Preston, but McCarthy says Edwards, one of the standout performers on Tuesday, and Mings are doubts: "Ty hasn’t trained and Carlos hasn’t and I thought Carlos was one of the real bright spots at right-back. I thought he was excellent.

"He got a kick above his knee but I expect him to be OK. Tyrone got a really nasty bang to his foot, he had the sole of his foot kicked, which is always a sore one. We’ll see how he is tomorrow, whether he trains.”

Striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake also remains sidelined and the Town boss doesn’t expect him to return to action before the end of the month: "You won’t be seeing him before the end of January, that’s for sure, because he needs to get his injury right, strengthen his hamstring up and then make some real progress. He’s got some work on then to get himself really fit.

"And if we see him for February, March and April, if we see the best of him during those months, it’ll be great.”

Midfielder Anthony Wordsworth is unlikely to be in the 18 having returned to training earlier this week after suffering with tonsillitis.

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