McKenna drops team selection hint and provides squad update ahead of huge Southampton clash

McKenna drops team selection hint and provides squad update ahead of huge Southampton clash

Ipswich Town boss Kieran McKenna says changes are likely for his side’s huge clash with Southampton on Tuesday.

Ipswich could essentially secure promotion to the Premier League with a victory, given their far superior goal difference to third-placed Millwall.

But a victory for Southampton, however, would see them move just one point behind McKenna’s men heading into the last game of the season.

Leif Davis has missed the last two games and McKenna says he will be assessed ahead of the clash.

“We’ll make those assessments today through training and speaking to the players this evening,” he said.

“There’s no doubt that there was fatigue out there on Saturday. I’ve spoken about the schedule enough, but three away games in six days at this stage of the season is really, really tough.

“We’ll make the assessments. Coming into the spell we wanted to be relatively consistent with our selection and give players a chance to build up some good momentum, and I think we’ve done that over the last few weeks.

“But we also have other players ready to go and a squad of people ready to contribute, so in reality there’s going to be a need to freshen up some positions going into Tuesday night and we’ll make a decision on what those positions are.”

Southampton go into the game off the back of their FA Cup semi-final defeat to Manchester City on Saturday.

“Probably Southampton are the only team who have had a schedule anything resembling ours over the last few weeks, so maybe it’s one game where we can’t talk so much about freshness as both teams have played a lot,” McKenna said on Tuesday’s opponents.

“Different emotions going away from home, fighting for a point in the Championship as against being at Wembley playing maybe the best team in the world in a different competition, both are just different mentally.