Ipswich Town
Preview: LCFC – Town
By Aston
August 11 2006
STB brings you team news, manager previews, the officials and betting odds ahead of Towns game against Leicester City tomorrow (KO 3:00pm).
“We haven't created enough opportunities. When you pick apart the ebbs and flows of the two games then you could say we have lost both of them to set pieces. That is something we work hard on but we need to work harder to be better and maybe smarter.
“Football is a simple game - we haven't created enough at the other end. That's not just the forwards - that's us as a team. We have looked at that and we will be trying to rectify it.
“We are an evolving club and we are currently developing and emerging. We have just got to try and speed up the process.”
Town are missing just Owen Garvan who is suffering from a form of post viral fatigue.
Town manager Jim Magilton: “I'm really looking forward to the game, the Walkers Stadium is a terrific place to play and we have a decent record up there.
“We will go there in a positive frame of mind and we know we are not far away from getting things right.
“Confidence is not a problem. The lads have been flying but I want us to be more positive in our play than we were in the second-half against Wolves.
“For large chunks of the game we did not have enough players being positive. If they had been we would have won the match.
“It's something we have been working hard at during training and we will go to
“There will be one or two changes to the side that played at Wolves and the pressure is there for us to get points on the board. It will be the same for
“Having lost at home in midweek, they might feel under the spotlight a bit more than us and I'm expecting a reaction from them.”
Officials: (subject to change)
Referee: J Moss
Assistant: P W Barnes and C Dunn
Fourth Official: L Hodgson
Betting Odds (found using Sportsnetwork Odds Checker):
Draw: 12/5
Town: 11/4
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