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Five Changes For Blues at Arsenal - Ipswich Town News

Town boss Kieran McKenna has made five changes for this evening’s game at Arsenal with Luke Woolfenden, Ben Johnson, Jacob Greaves, Kalvin Phillips and Liam Delap coming into the team.

The Blues look set to switch to the system that saw them to a 2-1 win at Spurs on their last visit to North London with a back three of Dara O’Shea, who skippers the club for the first time, on the right with Woolfenden in the centre and Greaves on the left.

Ben Johnson and Leif Davis will be the wing-backs with Phillips joining Jens Cajuste in the centre of midfield with captain Sam Morsy suspended.

Omari Hutchinson, a former Gunners academy player, and Sammie Szmodics are the number 10s behind lone striker Delap, back after his one-match ban.

Harry Clarke, another one-time youth player with the North Londoners, Wes Burns and Conor Chaplin drop to the bench and Cameron Burgess is out of the 20-man squad.

For Arsenal, Declan Rice comes back into the team for Thomas Partey, while Leandro Trossard comes in for Bukayo Saka, who suffered a hamstring injury in the 5-1 win at Crystal Palace on Saturday.

Arsenal: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly, Rice, Havertz, Odegaard (c), Martinelli, Trossard, Jesus. Subs: Neto, Zinchenko, Tierney, Kiwior, Calafiori, Jorginho, Partey, Merino, Nwaneri.

Ipswich: Muric, Johnson, O’Shea (c), Woolfenden, Greaves, Davis, Phillips, Cajuste, Hutchinson, Szmodics, Delap. Subs: Walton, H. Clarke, Townsend, Taylor, Burns, Chaplin, Broadhead, J Clarke, Al-Hamadi. Referee: Darren England (Doncaster). VAR: Alex Chilowicz.

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