Same XI For Blues But Five Changes for Bristol City - Ipswich Town News
Town are unchanged against Bristol City at Ashton Gate this afternoon, as manager Mick McCarthy confirmed on Thursday.
The only switch in the matchday 18 is Myles Kenlock replacing Teddy Bishop among the subs.
Cole Skuse faces his hometown club, who he was with for 17 years until joining the Blues in 2013, for the first time at Ashton Gate.
Robins boss Lee Johnson makes five changes from the starting XI which lost 2-1 at Reading last week with Adam Matthews, Scott Golbourne, Korey Smith, Luke Freeman and Aaron Wilbraham coming into the side for Joe Bryan, who is suspended, Mark Little, Gary O’Neil, Jamie Paterson and Bobby Reid.
Bristol City: Fielding, Matthews, Flint, Magnusson, Golbourne, Freeman, Pack, Smith, Tomlin, Wilbraham, Abraham. Subs: Lucic, Moore, Brownhill, O'Neil, Reid, Paterson, Engvall.
Town: Bialkowski, Chambers (c), Webster, Berra, Knudsen, Skuse, Douglas, Ward, Lawrence, Varney, McGoldrick. Subs: Gerken, Emmanuel, Kenlock, Bru, Williams, Best, Sears. Referee: Stuart Attwell (Warwickshire).
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