Ipswich Town v Palace

Portman Road, Tuesday 7.45pm

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Both clubs will be aiming for their first league win of the season when they collide at Portman Road.

Darren Ambrose and Alan Lee go up against their old side who are unbeaten in the last four games against the Eagles.

Team news

Darren Ambrose will have a fitness test on his shoulder injury and striker Stern John is still sidelined with a dislocated elbow. Calvin Andrew is a long-term injury victim with a knee problem.

Ipswich are sweating on the fitness of Jaime Peters who has an ankle injury, while Ben Thatcher and David Norris won't play due to knee injuries.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"What disappoints me is the damage Saturday did to us. We're going to see how well we've recovered from it by how we perform on Tuesday night.

"You can only try to lift the players up but if you'd see the lads in the dressing room on Saturday they had absolutely gone.

"If we'd won then after two games we would've been flying - instead we're talking about an incompetent referee."

Roy Keane

"I’ve got a few decisions to make for the Palace game and we certainly need to be more of a goal threat. Having watched Saturday’s game again, we created very little, but that comes down to the team as a whole, not just the strikers.

"If anything pleased me on Saturday it was the fact that although it wasn’t a pretty game and we didn’t play particularly well, the players stuck at it and we got a point.

"Sometimes at the end of a season those draws can be important. Put it this way, we would have been delighted with a draw last weekend after going two goals down when we created a number of chances.

"So, as much as I was disappointed with the lack of chances we created this week, you look at the previous week when we created a good eight or nine chances but didn’t take them."

Ipswich Town - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
19th	2	0	1	1	1

Full league table

Ipswich Town - current form

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
2	0	1	1	1	2

Full form table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
17/01/2009	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 4	Ipswich Town
27/09/2008	League	Ipswich Town	1 - 1	Crystal Palace
12/02/2008	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 1	Ipswich Town
26/08/2007	League	Ipswich Town	1 - 0	Crystal Palace
03/02/2007	League	Crystal Palace	2 - 0	Ipswich Town

All time results

Ipswich Town's top scorer

Connor Wickham - 2 goals

Ipswich Town's bad boy

Gareth McAuley - 1 0

Ref watch

K D Hill

Last meeting

Palace 1-4 Ipswich Town

Saturday January 17 2009

Palace: Speroni, Clyne, Lawrence (Butterfield, 46), Fonte, Hill, Derry, Carle, Oster (Djilali, 82), Ifill, Scannell (Kuqi, 63), Lee

Subs not used: Hills, Danns

Goals: Lee 31

Bookings: Ifill

Ipswich Town: Richard Wright, Bruce, McAuley, Balkestein, Harding, Haynes (Lisbie, 65), Norris, Counago (Stead, 65), Garvan, Walters, Miller

Subs not used: Supple, Shumulikoski

Goals: Garvan 19, Norris 28, Lisbie 69, Hill 89 (og)

Bookings: McAuley, Miller