Ipswich Town will welcome Sheffield Wednesday to Portman Road on
Saturday for a game with major implications at both ends of the Championship table.
A loss to Cardiff City last weekend left the hosts third, one point behind Leeds United in the race for automatic promotion, while their visitors are a single point adrift of safety despite a loss of their own last Friday.
Ipswich Town return to Portman Road on Saturday with the aim of rebounding from a setback last weekend in their bid for back-to-back promotions under the management of Kieran McKenna.
On their return to England’s second tier, the Tractor Boys have enjoyed a memorable campaign thus far, remaining frontrunners in the top-two fight having earned 78 points from their opening 37 games, winning 23 of those while only suffering five defeats – the fewest in the division.
After enduring a dip between mid-December and mid-February, winning just once in a nine-match span, McKenna’s men moved back into pole position with a run of six straight three-point hauls, culminating in a dramatic 3-2 home triumph over Bristol City in which they came from 2-1 down in the final 10 minutes thanks to goals from Conor Chaplin and Leif Davis.
ow a point outside the top two with nine games to play, Ipswich Town will know they cannot afford another slump and will be desperate to keep pace with in-form Leeds and bounce back to winning ways at Portman Road on Saturday.
