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Hyam and Smith in U23s at West Brom - Ipswich Town News

Town have confirmed that Luke Hyam and Tommy Smith will both play for the U23s this evening in their Premier League Cup tie against West Brom at the Hawthorns (KO 7pm).

Hyam will be playing his first game since suffering a knee injury in the pre-season friendly at Cambridge which eventually required surgery.

Smith, who played the full 90 minutes of last Monday’s 8-0 hammering of Watford, will be continuing his comeback after the back operation he underwent in September.

Also involved against the Baggies, who the Blues beat 2-1 at Portman Road in the same competition in November, will be Andre Dozzell, Ben Morris and Tristan Nydam.

Town are bottom of Premier League Cup Group G with just the three points from that win against tonight's opponents having been defeated in their three other games.

U23s: Crowe, Fowler, Woolfenden, Hyam, C Smith, T Smith, Blanchfield, Dozzell, Morris, McLoughlin, McKendry. Subs: Nydam, Hayes, McDonnell, Robinson, Folami.

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