Celina Returns Against Burton - Ipswich Town News

Bersant Celina replaces Freddie Sears in an otherwise unchanged Town side facing Burton Albion at Portman Road.

Celina will be on the left side of the trio behind lone out-and-out striker Joe Garner with Grant Ward on the right and Martyn Waghorn in the centre.

For Burton, former Blues loanee Stephen Bywater is in goal, while ex-Town striker Darren Bent is up front.

Town: Bialkowski, Spence, Carter-Vickers, Chambers (c), Knudsen, Skuse, Connolly, Ward, Waghorn, Celina, Garner. Subs: M Crowe, Iorfa, Webster, Hyam, Sears, Gleeson, Carayol.

Burton: Bywater, Brayford (c), Allen, McFadzean, Bent, Akins, Dyer, Naylor, Davenport, Samuelsen, Akpan. Subs: Campbell, McCrory, Sordell, Buxton, Barker, Sbarra, Boyce. Referee: David Webb (Lancashire).

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