Brett McGavin is handed his league debut and Andre Dozzell returns to the side for the first time in two months as Paul Lambert makes six changes for this evening's crucial game against Fleetwood Town at Portman Road.

McGavin and Dozzell, whose last first-team game was the Leasing.com Trophy tie at Exeter at the start of January, are in central midfield with Jon Nolan with Cole Skuse and Emyr Huws, starters at Blackpool on Saturday, missing due to a gash on the shin and a toe injury respectively.

Tomas Holy continues in goal with the Blues returning to a back three with - from the right - James Wilson, skipper Luke Chambers and Josh Earl the centre-halves. Janoi Donacien and Luke Garbutt are the wing-backs. Will Keane is up front with Alan Judge set to play off him.

Teddy Bishop and Freddie Sears are among the subs, having made their first starts of the season at Bloomfield Road, as are young duo Tyreece Simpson and Armando Dobra.

Flynn Downes misses the first game of his two match ban and Kayden Jackson the second of his three-game suspension.

Fleetwood, at Portman Road for the first time in their history, name an unchanged team from last week’s 1-1 draw at Sunderland, while Ched Evans is on the bench having been suspended.

Town: Holy, Donacien, Earl, Chambers, Wilson, Nolan, Judge, Dozzell, Garbutt, McGavin, Keane. Subs: Norris, Edwards, Bishop, Sears, Woolfenden, Dobra, Simpson.

Fleetwood: Cairns, Coyle, Andrew, Connolly, Souttar, Burns, Whelan, Coutts, Madden, Gibson, McKay. Subs: Crellin, Evans, Morris, Thervaldsson, Sowerby, Saunders, Holgate. Referee: Neil Hair (Cambridgeshire).

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marco5113 added 20:39 - Mar 3 this has just become ridiculous, Lambert obviously wants his payoff. ME a good businessman? i think not.
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SickParrot added 20:40 - Mar 3 Lambert's taking the piss and the players want him out?
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Skip73 added 20:41 - Mar 3 No shots against mighty Fleetwood. What a shambles. Absolutely pathetic!
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FromIpswichToPhoenix added 20:44 - Mar 3 We have now played the most games in the league. Every team above us has at least one game in hand. If other games go well, we could drop to 12th. In division 1. What the hell to us?
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herobobby added 20:44 - Mar 3 Yet again the support suffers because of Evans and his bad management, if he hadn't been a tool and given him a new contract he wouldn't even be in the dug out tonight 😤
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