After an underwhelming start to the season, Ipswich Town now find themselves in a push for a playoff place under the management of Kieran McKenna.
Having won eight and lost just two of the 13 League One games since his appointment, the Tractor Boys now sit just five points outside of the playoff places, after seemingly being out of the race at the halfway stage of the campaign.
They come into Tuesday’s game in a seven-match unbeaten run in England’s third tier, firstly bouncing back from a defeat to promotion-chasing rivals Sheffield Wednesday with 1-0 victories over Gillingham and Doncaster Rovers.
Having risen back within five points of sixth spot, the Suffolk outfit will look to continue building momentum with another victory on Tuesday that could see them climb up to eighth in a congested top half.
The Imps only narrowly missed out on promotion last season, but this campaign has not gone the same way as they have continuously battled in the bottom half of the division, recently dropping as low at 18th as a result of a four-match winless run.
The Imps only narrowly missed out on promotion last season, but this campaign has not gone the same way as they have continuously battled in the bottom half of the division, recently dropping
as low at 18th as a result of a four-match winless run.Michael Appleton’s side made an impressive return to winning ways last time
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out, though, as they handed an in-form Sheffield Wednesday side a 3-1 defeat on home turf, with John Marquis’s opener cancelled out by Saido Berahino before he added a second after Brooke Norton-Cuffy’s goal to secure all three
points.While that result did a major favour for Tuesday’s hosts, the Imps will now look to dish out another defeat to a playoff-chasing side as they aim to climb back up to 16th spot in League
While that result did a major favour for Tuesday’s hosts, the Imps will now look to dish out another defeat to a playoff-chasing side as they aim to climb back up to 16th spot in League One
