Four Strikers Start at Burton - Ipswich Town News
Town boss Mick McCarthy has named an attacking line-up for this afternoon’s game at Burton featuring all four of his frontline strikers, David McGoldrick, Joe Garner, Martyn Waghorn and Freddie Sears.
The Blues could line-up in the 4-4-2 system which saw them to victory in a number of their early season games or in a 4-2-3-1 formation with McGoldrick, Sears and Waghorn behind Garner.
Tom Adeyemi, who has suffered with a recurrence of his hamstring injury, is the man to drop out of the team for Sears, while Kevin Bru is on the bench for only the third time this season.
For Burton, former Blues striker Luke Varney and ex-loan keeper Stephen Bywater are among the subs.
Burton: Ripley, Warnock, Allen, McFadzean, Buxton (c), Turner, Murphy, Lund, Akins, Dyer, Sordell. Subs: Bywater, Flanagan, Naylor, Varney, Palmer, Akpan, Barker.
Town: Bialkowski, Spence, Webster, Chambers (c), Knudsen, Skuse, Nydam, Sears, Waghorn, McGoldrick, Garner. Subs: Gerken, Iorfa, Celina, Connolly, Ward, Downes, Bru. Referee: Simon Hooper (Wiltshire).
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