By Aston
December 21 2007
Town are at Portman Road again tomorrow afternoon, looking to continue their unbeaten run the only think stopping them is Burnley. Town will be without Richard Naylor and Sylvain Legwinski while Tommy Miller is a doubt but it is otherwise a full squad for Jim Magilton to pick from.
Town squad: Alexander, Bruce, Casement, Clarke, Counago, De Vos, Garvan, Harding, Haynes, Lee, T.Miller, Rhodes, Roberts, Sito, Supple, Trotter, Walters, Williams, Wilnis, Wright.
Town manager Jim Magilton: "Burnley are just points behind us in the table and I'm sure they have promotion ambitions themselves, Owen Coyle has had a fantastic start as manager there, despite a couple of recent blips at home - results that have shown him that anything can happen in this division.
"But he has earned the right to manage at this level and is already showing signs of what he can achieve in the game. He has a very good side at his disposal, playing good football, and I'm expecting a big test for us.
"They will punish us if we are not right on our game and it's up to the players to make sure that doesn't happen."
Burnley could be without 5 first team players as midfielders Chris McCann and Joey Gudjonsson are both serving suspensions for red cards picked up against Preston last week. Kyle Lafferty, Alan Mahon and Clarke Carlisle are doubts with injuries.
Burnley manager Owen Coyle: "In terms of away fixtures they don't come any tougher. I think they have the best home record anywhere and that tells you the size of the task," admitted Coyle.
"But we have been to Charlton, Watford and Wolves and won and this is another game we will not fear.
"Nothing changes and we will look to do that again on Saturday. We will go there really positive and look to be the first team to go to Ipswich and win this season.
"They may look invincible at home, but I think these are the games you want. We have nothing but the utmost respect, but I want my players to go there and show Ipswich that we can play a bit too.
"There can be no bigger incentive than wanting to go there and be the first team this season to win.
"It has all the makings of a great football match.
"Ipswich will be big favourites and rightly so with their track record, but we have shown before that we can create what people term as a shock.
"I have to say it won't be a shock to me, so we will go there positive and see what we can achieve."
Officials:
Referee: P DOWD
Assistants: S Beck and M Tingey
Fourth Official: R Shoebridge