Comments and predictions for Ipswich Town vs Brighton: A counterattack
The match between Ipswich Town vs Brighton in the Premier League takes place at 2:30 a.m. on January 17. Nghe An Newspaper analyzes performance, makes football comments and predicts the score.
Latest Ipswich Town vs Brighton team information
Ipswich will be without key player Omari Hutchinson for the next two games after he suffered a groin injury last week, ruling him out of the FA Cup tie with Bristol Rovers.
Sammie Szmodics, who has scored several important goals for Ipswich this season (opening the scoring in four different games), will also be absent. McKenna revealed that Szmodics is wearing a protective boot to treat an ankle injury.
Chiedozie Ogbene is out for the rest of the season with a torn Achilles tendon. Conor Chaplin and Axel Tuanzebe are also sidelined with injuries. Neither will be back for several weeks.
No Premier League team has a more serious injury problem than Brighton at the moment. Joao Pedro has recently joined the injury list after spraining his ankle in training, making him doubtful for the next few games.
Defensive duo Lewis Dunk and Tariq Lamptey are likely to return after recovering from injury and illness. Attacking pair Georginio Rutter and Yankuba Minteh will need to undergo a scan ahead of the game, having picked up minor injuries in the trip to Norwich.
Jack Hinshelwood is getting closer to a return, but this game will be too soon for other players like Ferdi Kadioglu, James Milner and Diego Gomez (who is still finding his fitness after moving from Inter Miami).
Ipswich Town vs Brighton latest expected lineup
Ipswich Town:
Walton; Johnson, O'Shea, Woolfenden, Greaves, Davis; Morsy, Cajuste; Broadhead, Delap, J Clarke
Brighton & Hove Albion:
Verbruggen; Veltman, Dunk, Van Hecke, Estupinan; Baleba, Ayari; Gruda, Enciso, Mitoma; Welbeck
Latest football commentary Ipswich Town vs Brighton
All of Ipswich's Christmas dreams look to be coming true, with Kieran McKenna's side now well on their way out of the bottom three.
Four points and four goals in their last two Premier League games (as many as they managed in their previous seven) have moved them level on points with Wolves in 17th place.
After a narrow defeat at Arsenal on Boxing Day, Ipswich beat Chelsea 2-0 at Portman Road to close out 2024. They also nearly had a perfect start to the new year when they visited Fulham.
Two penalties denied Ipswich victory at Craven Cottage, with Raul Jimenez's late equaliser forcing them to settle for a draw, despite Liam Delap giving them the lead for the second time in the game.
Four points from the last two matches have helped Tractor Boys move above Leicester City, while pulling Everton back into the danger zone when the gap is now only 1 point.
McKenna’s side have been quite effective on their return to the English top flight, averaging just 6.1 shots per game, but still maintaining their record of scoring at least one goal per game so far this term.
Home form was a concern at the start of the season, but after picking up their first win in 10 tries, they went on to beat Bristol Rovers in the FA Cup on Sunday.
The hosts' next opponents will be Brighton, a team that has become a draw specialist in the Premier League this season. It was Ipswich who held Brighton to a 0-0 draw in the first leg in September.
The Seagulls' draw streak has continued to grow in recent weeks, with their last four league games ending in draws.
No other Premier League side has drawn five consecutive games since Fulham in 2020-21. Brighton last did so in 2000, when they were still in the fourth tier.
The FA Cup also gave Brighton the chance to win and they took it, beating Norwich City 4-0 at Carrow Road. This marked a game of much rotation for manager Fabian Hurzeler.
Brighton will travel to East Anglia again to face Norwich’s arch-rivals in the Premier League, and they will be hoping for a similar result. Hurzeler will also be keen to end his disappointing run of yet to win a game against a team in the bottom four.
Too many dropped points have seen Brighton drop to 10th place. They are eight points off the top four and six off the European places. In the current situation, a mid-table finish would be a more realistic target, although they have shown that they are fully capable of competing for European places.
However, the visitors have been in fine form in their last two games, holding Arsenal to a draw at the Amex and preventing Aston Villa from winning at Villa Park.
Ipswich Town vs Brighton score prediction
Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Ipswich Town vs Brightonas follows:
- Sportsmole:Ipswich Town 1-1 Brighton
- WhoScore:Ipswich Town 1-2 Brighton
- Our newspaper predicts:Ipswich Town 1-1 Brighton
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