Douglas Return Only Change at Rotherham - Ipswich Town News
Town boss Mick McCarthy makes one change to his side for today’s game at Rotherham with Ainsley Maitland-Niles, who suffered a foot injury in Tuesday’s 2-0 win against Bolton, dropping to the bench and Jonathan Douglas starting, while David McGoldrick misses out on a place on the bench having been a pre-match doubt with a groin problem.
The Blues again look set to start in a 4-3-3 formation with Freddie Sears, Daryl Murphy and Brett Pitman up front.
Former Town loanees Danny Collins, Paul Green and Frazer Richardson all start for the bottom-of-the-table Millers. Midfielder Brandon Barker, 19, who joined on loan from Manchester City is handed his senior debut. Full match preview here.
Rotherham: Camp, Richardson, Rawson, Collins, Toffolo, Thorpe, G Ward, Green, Barker, Derbyshire, D Ward. Subs: Collin, Broadfoot, Buxton, Smallwood, Newell, Clarke-Harris, Andreu.
Town: Gerken, Chambers (c), Smith, Berra, Knudsen, Skuse, Douglas, Bru, Sears, Pitman, Murphy. Subs: Bialkowski, Malarczyk, Parr, Coke, Maitland-Niles, Oar, Touré. Referee: Darren Drysdale (Lincolnshire).
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Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Ipswich Town - Match AbandonedTown look set to face a return trip to Blackburn Rovers later in the season after this afternoon’s game was abandoned after 80 minutes due to a waterlogged pitch with the home side 1-0 up and with the Blues down to 10 men. Jacob Greaves was shown a straight red card four minutes after the break for hauling down Yuki Ohashi, then Rovers skipper Todd Cantwell netted a penalty on 59, but the heavy rain had made the game increasingly farcical the longer it progressed and in the 80th minute referee Stephen Martin took the players off and then 25 minutes later abandoned it entirely.