Four Changes For Blues at Fleetwood - Ipswich Town News
Town boss Kieran McKenna has made four changes for this afternoon’s game at Fleetwood with Bersant Celina, Conor Chaplin, Kayden Jackson and Joe Pigott all coming into the team.
Pigott and Jackson could line-up as a strike pairing with Celina and Chaplin perhaps ahead of skipper Sam Morsy.
James Norwood, Macauley Bonne, Tyreeq Bakinson and Sone Aluko all drop to the bench.
For Fleetwood, former Blues Toto Nsiala and Ellis Harrison both start, while Joe Garner is suspended having been sent off in midweek.
Fleetwood: Cairns, Andrew (c), Jules, Clarke, Harrison, Camps, Pilkington, Johnson, Lane, Nsiala, Johnston. Subs: O’Hara, Butterworth, G Garner, Morris, Biggins, Boyle, Hayes.
Town: Walton, Donacien, Woolfenden, Edmundson, Thompson, Morsy (c), Celina, Burns, Chaplin, Jackson, Pigott. Subs: Hladky, Penney, Norwood, Bakinson, Bonne, Aluko, Burgess. Referee: Andrew Kitchen (Durham).
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