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Episode 79 - Ipswich vs Chelsea Preview
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Daily Ipswich is back our usual schedule following a Christmas break! Join Rob & Richard as they look ahead to tonight's clash with Chelsea. The lads discuss Chelsea's season so far, debate if Liam Delap has started to be found out by other teams and share their tentative optimism going into the game.
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Host: Rob Binns
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Podcast Resumes & Schedule
00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Ipswich, brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. And it is normal service resumed, well, near enough, apart from fi and the way fixtures line up. We've had our Christmas break, we've enjoyed our fun, and we are now back to your daily Monday to Friday episodes from now until the end of the season, as far as I know, unless fixtures get dodgy again.
Chelsea Crossover Absence & Preview
00:00:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
But first, a quick apology to start with today.
00:00:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
I did hint at a Chelsea crossover for today's episode in our previous episode that went out over the weekend. Unfortunately, the schedules haven't lined up how we thought they would. So it's just our in-house preview. And joining me, Rob Binns, and all that preview today, all the way from his holiday over the other side of the world, is Richard
Arsenal vs Ipswich Game Experience
00:00:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Poppel. How you doing, mate?
00:00:54
Richard
I'm good, mate. Yeah, I'm very good. I'm very good. I yeah i actually managed to watch the the Arsenal Ipswich game in a bar, which kind of turned out to be an Arsenal bar in Durham, which is in North Carolina in the States.
00:01:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Wait.
00:01:07
Richard
And it really was like, I mean, I think they play basically all the EPL games over there. But they were kind of They were kind of singing North London forever, you know, the Arsenal anthem before the game and stuff.
00:01:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh yeah.
00:01:18
Richard
But I had my Ipsut shirt on, I was the only one representing, and unfortunately I couldn't couldn't bring the win home. But yeah, it was a it bit of a dull game, wasn't it, as you guys discussed. But yeah, we we acquitted ourselves okay, and it was it was good to see that we we didn't take a battering that everybody had predicted beforehand.
00:01:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so it
Chelsea's Gameplay & Ipswich Contrast
00:01:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
was very dull, weren't it? Like what you said, but say a team who you don't associate with dull this season, especially is Chelsea. So hopefully we'll get a bit more excitement on today's game, isn't actually. Yeah, this is Monday, Monday morning. This episode will be going out. So tonight at Portland road. So we'll do general preview content for you today. We're going to start off with a bit about Chelsea, then a bit about how we think town will set themselves up. Obviously we covered that slightly in the, we spent them in the bonus weekend episode.
00:02:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then we'll give our all important predictions went went so well. Last time me and Richard had done a preview together, but predicting two, one wins against Newcastle. So we're on crate for me and you as a parent in these previews.
00:02:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we'll see what we come up with this time.
00:02:16
Richard
and I know mate, I know.
Chelsea's Form & Title Contention
00:02:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right. like I said, let's start with Chelsea then had a very, very good run of form coming together and they got, and they seem to have felt the pressure after being seriously considered title contenders.
00:02:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Good. It's one point from a six available. and the last two games since they've been considered as genuine title or contenders so is now a good time for us to be playing them would you say?
00:02:42
Richard
Yeah, potentially. i think I think away from home, they seem to be a bit better than they are at home a weird way. They seem to be certainly free flowing and scoring quite a lot of goals away from home. So I don't know whether that's going to count against us. I mean, you know the last time we were home, obviously, we got pumped by Newcastle and and really got outclassed, to be perfectly honest. And i can I do fear that that's going to happen again because of the pace that Chelsea have in the same way that Newcastle have that and they're both fairly direct kind of teams. So I do worry about that a little bit. I know you guys talked about kind of like formation changes that we had and obviously we were much more solid at Arsenal. I also think Arsenal played really poorly to be honest. So I think I don't think we were actually challenged that much in the game realistically. on another day Arsenal play a lot better and potentially, you know, make it more difficult for us.
00:03:32
Richard
But, yeah, chesea Chelsea have had a
Chelsea's Defensive Concerns
00:03:35
Richard
bit of a bump, haven't they? and i i mean How do you feel about them? Do you see them as kind of like you know title contenders, to use that horrible phrase that gets chucked around quite a lot?
00:03:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
didn't and then I did for a little while and now I'm back to thinking they're not again really because never I never believed it to start with and everyone was starting to talk about it and then obviously they kept every every opportunity they had from their side of the interview saying and they're not for me that this is ah as a point been raised by a lot of people I think particularly by I think with Jamie Carragher and whoever the guest was on Monday Night Football one week was where I think Chelsea lacked to be genuine title contenders it's defensively, moton namely the goalkeeper, because yeah can't Sanchez is up there at Murec for the most howlers in the league this season.
00:04:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
that In terms of giving mistakes, he gets away a bit a bit more often than a lot of other keepers do, so it tends to go under the radar. but you can't I don't think you can be a consistent title challenger if your goalkeeper could very easily throw a game for you on a minute's notice with a mistake, because it's on a good run at the moment.
00:04:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
But last time he was on a good run, he then had three terrible games in a row and it really cost him some points.
00:04:44
Richard
Huh, huh.
00:04:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's where I think they drop off is. And clearly they haven't handled the pressure very well because they kept trying. They've been trying to s steer the pressure away, saying they're not in the race. And then other teams have been dropping points. They've got themselves up. I mean, you look at the Everton game last Sunday, that that was their chance. They could have gone on top of the league with Liverpool playing two hours after them. And so they had a fairly free credit to Everton for obviously the same thing they did against Arsenal. they turned up, played with a clean sheet, got it, and got a good point on the board.
00:05:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
So credit it was great to Everton as well. They were quite poor that day, Chelsea. They had enough quality, they could have broke Everton down, and they didn't get the goal. And that was their chance to really sort of announce themselves in a title challenge, and they didn't do it.
00:05:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then they followed
Fulham's Strong Performance
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Global Sports Podcast Network
it up by throwing away a lead late on at home against Fulham, who hadn't won at Stamford Bridge for 30, 40 years, or whatever the record was. And they were supposed to be winning for so long in the game and throw it away.
00:05:36
Richard
Yeah.
00:05:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
So they're faltering a bit.
00:05:39
Richard
Yeah, I mean, full of are having the season of the lives, aren't they? But yeah, I agree.
00:05:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah, so every week to go that one will draw we got home to full on looks a better result every week the way it goes, but I don't know.
00:05:45
Richard
I mean,
00:05:51
Richard
Yeah, it does. they've had ah They've had a really, really strong season.
Chelsea's Key Players & Issues
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Richard
They've beaten some some big teams. But I think the Chelsea thing, I think you're right. I mean, defensively, clearly, that is their kind of like Achilles heel. And you look at the the lineup from the from the last game against Fulham.
00:06:06
Richard
I mean, you know, Kookarela, he's a very divisive kind of like player, some people really, really like him. And I think, you know, all right, he was in the Spain team that won the euros in the summer, and he played every single game and stuff. And he's obviously been an ever present for Chelsea as well. But I still think you can get at him. And I still think that there's, you know, discipline issues with him and stuff. And I would say that he's probably their best defender. And I think if he's your best defender, then there's definitely a bit of a weakness in the team. They're heavily reliant on Cole Palmer. I mean, Nicholas Jackson, I know has had a decent season, maybe flattered a little bit by some, some soft goals in, in easier games potentially. but
00:06:45
Richard
Yeah, they're they're hugely reliant on Cole Palmer. i'm kind he He still to me is the ah is is the mystery player in the league. I don't get why he is so good. I don't quite get why his stats are so good. Maybe you can tell me why Cole Palmer is such a good player.
00:07:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think it's it he just play he's not affected by what goes on around him, I think, Palmer. is like spoke about You look at the Manchester Derby, how the everyone was saying that the reason why I'm at Diallo won the game for the United was because he played without fear.
00:07:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
he wasn't He wasn't taken by the occasion. That's what Palmer's like. Obviously, people like to joke about it and say it's because there's nothing going on with in his head apart from football. But he doesn't he doesn't let any occasions get hold of him.
00:07:24
Richard
Mm.
00:07:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
he just He plays football like he's just having a laugh at school with his mates. and He doesn't let any, like, he could be up against, I say, who were the best defenders in the world. And he won't bother you.
00:07:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's like I say, he'll think it's his mate in the park and just, it doesn't change how he plays. And so when you can, once you get that sort of pressure and nervousness completely out of your system and you can just play completely free, then if then if you've got ability on top of that, then he's definitely surpassed expectations.
00:07:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Even still now, I thought it's the questions, was it going to be a one season fluke last year? And he's come in and stepped up as only,
00:08:01
Richard
Yeah.
00:08:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Salah's got more contributions than him and bearing in mind that Palmer's effectively a midfield, even though he plays very far forward for Chelsea, that to be second in the lead for combined contributions still is just, I think it's the the element of like, you say at City when people move there that they go from being a big fish in a small pond to just a cog like a Grealish and it doesn't work for him. Palmer's done the opposite. He was a very small cog in the City machine. Now he's gone and been the main man. I think he's thriving off it as well, which is where the confidence has then come from to the other element to bat away all the nervousness and stuff.
00:08:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
we say like Things like that penalty against Spurs. To be trying that away from home against you team one of your team's biggest rivals is as somebody who plays at absolutely zero fear, which is the element why he's so good, I think.
00:08:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
that Hopefully he's not good on Monday or tonight even.
00:08:51
Richard
yeah No, he's he's also like a luxury player, isn't he, in the sense of, you know, and a very effective one. If things are going well, as they have been for the last year and a half, then it's great. It's also good. But he doesn't really contribute defensively to the team whatsoever. He basically just has free reign to do whatever he wants on the ball, whenever he gets the ball.
00:09:12
Richard
He's a throwback. He's a bit of a kind of like, I mean, this is before my time, but like Glenn Hoddle, that kind of player or even Matt Letizier in the first, you know, the first decade of the Premier League, somebody that does not defend whatsoever. But, you know, give him the ball and he can create a little bit of magic. And as you say, he's got the mentality to not really overthink stuff.
00:09:31
Richard
I mean it will be interesting because there will be a period, you you look at City at the moment, we thought Erling Harlan would score goals forever and he's going through this period where he's now not, the team are failing badly, he's missing penalties, all that kind of stuff. That will happen to Palmer at some point where he goes through a dipping form and it'll be interesting to see how he responds to it because it has just been this kind of mad trajectory really from a kind of bit part, man City, but he wasn't even in the mat, you know, he was way behind Foden.
00:09:56
Richard
and nowhere near the the kind of first team of Man City really to being the number one guy at Chelsea and I think you know that chaotic situation that they've had for the last what since Boli came in and Silver Lake came in what's that 2022 I think those guys bought the club he's just had he's been the one player that's come in really that's that's you know grasped that opportunity and you're right maybe it is that mentality thing of like a freedom between the ears that means that he can just kind of like let his
Chelsea's Pressure & Expectations
00:10:27
Richard
football do the talking. So yeah, a fair play to him, but it will be interesting to see when the pressure is actually on and the expectation does rise, how that affects not only him, but as you say, the rest of the Chelsea team.
00:10:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think it helps as well that he's getting regular rest as well, because obviously we look what's happened with Bakaya Saka's injury now looks looks going to be March sort of time until he's back.
00:10:46
Richard
Yeah.
00:10:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
But that is a result of he's been playing with pain in in his legs for God knows how many months because he has been massively overworked for two or three years because our has been playing him in games like Bolt went at home in the Carabao Cup and sort of second legs if you're openly ties that had already been one in the first leg, he's been playing near enough every minute and
00:10:58
Richard
Yep.
00:11:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Palm has him again. He plays 90 minutes, but obviously no Europe at all last year. He's not been registered for the first round of the conference league. So he's not been getting those random Thursday night trips to Kosovo and Azerbaijan and and all the places they've had to go.
00:11:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's been getting these extra rest that they've been making still. They can prime him ready for the Premier League games. So I think that's been a big help as well
Player Rest & Injury Impact
00:11:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
because we are starting to see that sort of this caliber of players that just gets overworked and career starts to turn downhill.
00:11:31
Richard
yeah
00:11:36
Richard
Yeah.
00:11:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
with injuries or whatever reason. Now, like I say, Saka, for the first time in his career, he's going to have an extended period out. so And Palma has yet to experience something like that.
00:11:46
Richard
Yeah. Yeah. And you can you can look again at the style of football, right? You you look at somebody like Rodry, he was saying at the end of last season that he needs a rest and he's being overworked and he was talking about you know players needing to go on strike or whatever. That's the only way that I think the situation is going to change.
00:12:04
Richard
and you know But he got injured in that Arsenal game, didn't he? The City Arsenal game. And there was no way Pep Guardiola wasn't going to play him in that game. But he'd been running on a red light for months, probably the last two years, realistically. And it's exactly the same with Bakaio Saka. You're completely right. the The style of football Arsenal play, Arteta demands that he he has great defensive shape as well. He's very good defensively, Saka. And he's everything to them going forward. So inevitably, it was going to break at some point. He kept getting these warning signs.
00:12:34
Richard
And that's an Arteta problem, but that's also, you know, a league wide problem if we are playing far too much football. I mean, you know, the the winter break was the thing that lasted for a couple of years and then the TV companies were like, no, no, no, we'll have that back, please. And now they're playing every three or four days and it's going to happen. It's inevitable. but
00:12:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, exactly. As I was saying, for Palmer and Chelsea's benefit as well, obviously he, it was England's loss. He wasn't getting many minutes at the Euros as well, but he effectively got more of a break than he should on over the summer as well.
00:13:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's probably why he's kicking back into gear.
00:13:08
Richard
Yeah.
00:13:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
And so it was a fantastic goal against Fulham and their sort of brightest spark of the game. But it was their first defeat, which we know the quality they have. I think it was 12 unbeaten in all competitions before
Chelsea vs Ipswich & Tactical Challenges
00:13:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
that game.
00:13:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think it was eight wins on the bounce up until Everton as well. so when they turn up like Newcastle when they turn up if they turn up sorry it's a big problem for us but we've got to do a lot better job than we did against Newcastle to stop them going early and once we've had a quick word from one of our sponsors we'll dive into how we think town can do that and not make the same mistakes that caught us early doors against Newcastle.
00:13:30
Richard
Yeah.
00:14:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, Richard, we are back for part two. So we spoke a lot about Chelsea and even a bit about Arsenal in there. So let's go as an Ipswich podcast, we suppose we better go back to Ipswich chat now.
00:14:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
And and it's a big game, isn't it? Like, it's one you don't expect a lot of people outside looking especially don't expect us to get anything from.
00:14:32
Richard
Yeah.
00:14:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
But we sat here a little while ago, me and you before the Newcastle game and said, we absolutely cannot afford to enter 2025 without a home win under our belts. And we failed at that hurdle.
00:14:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've got one more chance now that how big is it that we go and get that positive result. and is it do we are we How desperate are we for that home win?
00:14:57
Richard
We are desperate for the home win. I mean, look, at this stage, I'd take a point. I'd take a point today because I think you look at the fixtures and obviously we, as you say, we spoke about these three games and we were like, where are any points coming from? And we looked at the Newcastle game thinking, okay, they'd played midweek against Brentford in the cup.
00:15:13
Richard
They played basically a first team in that game. Here's an opportunity, maybe. And it went badly wrong. We then solidified a little bit for the Arsenal game defensively, but we offered absolutely nothing going forward. I mean, I think that was the least we've offered in any game so far this season, to be honest. So but it comes down to this, right? And you're right. we It's an absolute long shot but if you manage to pull this off then you go into the new year with something to grab hold of. If you look at the Premier League table now we're not adrift by any means you know we're only three points outside the relegation zone.
00:15:47
Richard
But Wolves have had a little bit of a bounce their new manager and they look like they're sort of punching to where we think. I mean, I predicted them to go down and they very well, you know, they might obviously at this stage, they're still banging trouble, but they've definitely picked up their form with with two wins in the last two games. Palace have become more consistent. Everton are unbeaten in four. So, you know, Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton, the three promoter teams are starting to slide a little bit.
00:16:14
Richard
So it's huge, right? I mean, we I can't sit here. and I'm not going to predict if you're going to win because I'm not sure if we are.
Ipswich's Relegation Battle & Future Fixtures
00:16:20
Richard
To be honest, I don't think we will. But if we can get a point and and some kind of positivity going into the new year, I don't think we play again until the fifth. I would expect us to do business before then because I think we have to do business early to give ourselves a chance because our fixture list in January and early February is horrendous.
00:16:38
Richard
and then it gets a bit easier as we finish the season. But we have to give ourselves a chance because if we get to like, you know, February or whatever, and we're on 18 points, then we it's going to be very difficult for us to stay up. So I think any positive result would be a massive boost for us today.
00:17:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, you definitely feel like that's the way it's going, don't you? and so It's very similar in sort of coming into it as that Newcastle game was, like I say, and we got that completely wrong, didn't we?
00:17:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, we said about whether they turn up, were we in a problem and then to go one nil down in 20 seconds.
00:17:13
Richard
Yeah.
00:17:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
But so I'm not the first time this season we've gone, we've conceded a goal in the first couple of minutes of a game as well to basically upset the game plan completely. But that's where the main element I think is going to have to be.
00:17:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
against Chelsea is that you've got to start well, because Tom mentioned on the bonus weekend episode that Chelsea tend to start games quite well. They tend to take the lead fairly early in games. And then when they were flying, they were then backing it up and scoring goals for fun. Whereas now recently, though, I would say the Fulham game, they didn't, they were never managed to get themselves over the line with that second goal. And that's why you think you can't afford to let them have that lead. Obviously, again, we compare ourselves to Everton a lot.
00:17:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
reviewing that Arsenal game and saying that's the way we had to play that model. The same sort of thing again, really, as much as we are a home team, you don't want to just sit everyone beyond the ball like we might what we tried to do against our Arsenal. You need to go for it a bit more at home, but the clean sheet's got a mindset and needs to be the priority again, I think, in this sort of game, like it was against Arsenal. We've got to be a bit more adventurous when we have the ball, A, because we're at home, and B, because we offered nothing against Arsenal. We can't do that again.
00:18:25
Richard
a
00:18:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
especially obviously and we lost some of the days. again Even if we'd come away with an ill-nilly, it's a fantastic result, but it had to be a one-off. And that's where that's where the worry is, obviously, because we we spoke a lot about Delappe as well, because we we know we missed him against Newcastle, and then he barely got a game against Arsenal because we couldn't get the ball out to him. But he's someone that so eight is massive for us, but as Tom pointed out again and over the weekend,
00:18:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
that he's not scored for a while now. I know he's had various things. We said he's looked tired a few times, suspension, but the actual goal scoring is not there. And of course, the manager in the opposite dugout, Enzo Mareska, who deserves loads of credit, by the way.
00:19:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
We just completely forgot to mention him in part one for the job he's done. But he does know Dilap. They had a year together in the Man City Academy where Dilap scored 25 goals or something. So he knows what he's like.
00:19:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
So perhaps the centre backs will be more prepared than most to be dealing with him. So where do you do you think we How do you think that's going to play out really? Is he going to break that little goal drought he's got or are we all do we link this back to January again and are we signing the starter rather than the backup?
00:19:18
Richard
and Yeah.
00:19:35
Richard
Oh, interesting. I mean, I think, yeah, you bring up Maresca. Maresca was talking about how to lap will be important for England. um And obviously, we've talked about that at the start of the year. And yeah, yeah you know, he's got the he's got the certainly the physical attributes to be that kind of like lone number nine. But he's in a scoring drought. I'm not entirely sure if we can put that completely down to him. We we created nothing really against Newcastle. We created apps. I know he wasn't playing in that game, but I think there's a bit of a pattern where We know we we can't score more than two goals in a game. We've done that three times all season 19 games. I think we did against Villa and then the two games that we obviously won and against Spurs and Wolves. So we're we're not scoring enough goals and we know that that's the problem. Dilap never came to Ipswich as a goal scorer. At Hull last season, I think he scored
00:20:25
Richard
eight seven or eight something like that in a whole season in the championship he's not at the moment that goal scorer certainly the way we play where we're asking him to basically start moves by the halfway line means that you're expecting him to score worldies all the time and that's just not going to happen and i think you know his his kind of center forward in the box play needs some finessing and development so yeah I mean maybe maybe he will get a goal in this game but I think you're right he does look tired teams have probably worked it out a little bit in terms of like they know that he's the threat so they're being I think they're being quite physical with him which we know he likes as a kind of like style of play but I think he's a young player who kind of maybe there's a bit of ego there and maybe he gets a little bit distracted by that whole kind of like game within a game sort of thing with the centre backs
00:21:15
Richard
Yeah so I think you know he's not in his best moment of the season but I don't think we can pin it on him as he's in poor form I just think as a team we're not creating obviously that's the one thing that we get you know I think McKenna has made us as solid as he can probably make us in the Premier League in the first season and but now it's about trying to offer some sort of threat because if we go into the second half of the season with a similar mindset we're going to get similar results. So I think we need to have a bit of a go. And that comes from the business that we do in January. I would expect, I don't know, three or four players to come in. And I would I would think most of them would be in midfield and attack. What do you reckon?
00:21:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think, I think I worded it wrong when I said that obviously we know we're going to go for a strike or that we're going for a start. I think, I mean, it's sort of competition because he, we are very over reliant in that area with the lap.
00:22:02
Richard
Yeah.
00:22:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Let's say the lap and Davis are the two that talk about Chelsea lost Palmer that season would start to crumble. If we lost either of those two, the drop off to who's there is massive until, unless we get something done in the January window and that would start to derail our season in that case.
00:22:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
but I think you're right. He's obviously, he's still a top player, but I think we are starting to get figured out a bit now as well. The way it works because he has the rules. He was fantastic, but we try to say walls. They play three at the back, which isn't particularly common anymore, especially as it was in a few years ago, which I think suited him quite well. But so the, the overall impact hasn't been there as much as it was in the early stage of the season. And that is just a case of if you do, if you,
00:22:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
keep anything the same for too long in the Premier League, unless you're really, really, really good at it. You do get found out quite quickly. you know if it seems ah ah So it's like some of the teams who've managed to last the whole season, like the Sheffield United, when they came up and nearly got Europe and then then finished bottom with nearly record low points total the following year, you get sussed quickly in this league.
00:23:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think it's not just getting into the game, but it's just sort of writhing them up as well.
00:23:12
Richard
Yep.
00:23:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because we saw it again against Arsenal, we had a little shove and match with Lewis Skelly. at one point and I think you think obviously he ended up with a suspension against Newcastle but that Wolves game I think yeah he got his second booking of the season against Man United then he got three bookings in the next four games to get a suspension quick fire because people started to ride him up and it was incredibly harsh he got booked at the end of that Wolves game but again he got involved in that thing there and he's got involved with Louis Skelly again don't know if he got booked in the end but they got pulled apart and then
00:23:21
Richard
Yeah, it is.
00:23:35
Richard
Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
00:23:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
say he had bookings against Bournemouth, he had a booking against Man United, one against Forrest as well, I think. They were starting to pile up now, that mental side, or people will know he loves, he likes to go in and leave bits on them, and they're playing for it, and they're starting to get him in the book, which then puts him on a tightrope, so he can't do it anymore.
00:24:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think how we use the ball in to has been figured out, but also some of the key traits of his game has started to be figured out by the better centre backs in the league now, which is why they haven't.
00:24:15
Richard
Yeah, I would agree.
00:24:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that's why I think, say when we look to January, That's where I think you you need to be going for someone who, whether they can or not, you need someone needs to come in with the mindset of, I'm going to knock the lap out of this team rather than I'm going to be here.
00:24:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm going to do a job for 20 minutes. When he comes off, you need someone because we need that backup idea.
00:24:34
Richard
yeah
00:24:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
And so I think he's also at the point now where he's been well, obviously he's he's limited in what he can do, like say arsenal, with no fault of his own. He had very limited touches and it may work.
00:24:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
He may well struggle to get involved. against Chelsea tonight, we don't know how that's going to play out. But I think he's under pressure now as well that knowing the January windows coming and obviously a strikers on the list, that maybe that focus is starting to shift away from a new backup to replace the injured Hurst and now somebody who could potentially give him a good fight for his place in the team.
00:25:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
And sometimes you need that competition as well.
00:25:11
Richard
Yeah. yeah or Or play him alongside him. He played a lot on the left side for for Hull last year and I could see that working because he's so direct and he he would frighten the life out of full backs.
00:25:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:22
Richard
So you know that would be exciting potentially to have to lap on the left and then you you know you get you get more of a box you know lying centre forward or whatever. And then we become just a bit more threatening with with Amari on the right hand side.
00:25:36
Richard
So I'd be looking at that, of of having both of these people in the team potentially. whoever that striker is, we know one's going to come in. and It just depends how much money we can spend, but also how quickly we can get them in. Because I think it is about the speed of all of this. As I say, we've got five days before the window. We haven't really heard from Ashton for a little while, and I would presume that that's because he's been very, very busy trying to get the ball rolling on January, because I think it's imperative. If if we're buying plays at the end of January, ah to be perfectly honest, I think that's kind of too late. I think it has to happen in the first week or so.
00:26:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, definitely. And to counter that whole point I've just made to be fair, I actually think the lap style of play has a lot more potential to work against as I like Chelsea because they're not the most physical centre backs in their tossing and Colville. I think that suits him a lot more than some of the other teams we played recently because Chelsea are, they're very good at the way they play the ball round. And then obviously to again, like we said, Maresca knows a bit about the lap from their time at City, but also obviously we know about a bit about how Mareska likes to play his football from obviously the championship last year with Leicester.
00:26:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we got we got two good draws in those games, where we were probably second favorite going into both like we perhaps not as heavily as we are second favorite going into tonight's game.
00:26:45
Richard
Yep.
00:26:48
Richard
Mm hmm.
00:26:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
But there is that sort of the same sort of elements of those Champions League game, we've got a significantly less value squad coming into the game, where everyone expects Mariska's team to come and get a result at Portman Road continue a title fight in that sense. It's very similar to that Leicester game. Obviously, Leicester didn't have the quality of your parmours and players like that. But we've shown before we can upset the odds against a Mariska side and I actually I like the laps chances against those two centre backs because they're very good on the ball but they're not the most physical. So we'll see how that one plays out really. But
00:27:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've covered both sides of it there. We've covered the pessimism and the optimism there. But we'll have a quick break from i another one of our sponsors now. And then we'll see which side we ultimately fall on when it comes down to the big predictions of the game.
00:28:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we are back for the final part of today's Monday Daily Ipswich episode. So Rich, mate, we've covered the Chelsea aspect coming into the game. We've covered the town aspect. So now I'm going to ask you, what are your sort of general thoughts on the game? How do you see this one playing out? And are you confident?
00:28:29
Richard
No, I'm not confident. To answer that question first, that was the easiest of the answers.
00:28:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:28:37
Richard
and How do I see it playing out? I mean, yeah, I mean, as you just mentioned, I think Chelsea do start games quite quickly and we have started games quite poorly.
00:28:47
Richard
If we go behind early in the game, we have shown very little in terms of coming back into games. apart from the odd time at Portman Road. So obviously we had, you know, we fell behind to United very early on and we equalised and then we fell behind to Villa and equalised later in the game. But I think Chelsea are a cut above those two sides. Villa are are decent but they've been a bit chuckle and hide this season.
00:29:17
Richard
Chelsea are obviously coming off the back of a couple of poor results and I think they have felt the pressure a little bit of the expectation which they've just not had for the last year and a half. So I don't expect them to be title challenges particularly I think they'll finish third or fourth the end but you know they're obviously a good side and they're they're they're good front runners so I can see if they do if they do take the lead in the game I could unfortunately see a similar scenario to the Newcastle game.
00:29:44
Richard
But I really, really hope that we go for this game a little bit more. I kind of don't really care if we lose 4-2, you know, and we've given it a bit of a go. I think if we just allow ourselves to be played through and look, there is a golfing class on paper, but we're going to be but We're playing the game on the pitch obviously so I hope we give it a bit more of a go in this game and actually get on the front foot earlier. It feels like it's been a little while and since since we've kind of like actually had a go. We obviously won the Wolves game but that wasn't that was a bit more of a pragmatic kind of approach.
00:30:15
Richard
So I would like to see McKenna perhaps give the give the side the chance to do that. We're not playing with a lot of confidence so I think it's a long stretch to think that we can get something from the game. But I think the only way we do that is to go toe to toe with Chelsea a little bit because they're not great defensively particularly. They're okay but they're not great. They're not Arsenal certainly and I don't think they're Newcastle either to be perfectly honest.
00:30:40
Richard
so yeah Hopefully we can nick a goal and maybe that'll be enough to to pick up a point. How are you seeing it?
00:30:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think it's definitely got a potential of a Newcastle-esque result in there that concerns me.
00:30:54
Richard
yeah
00:30:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I do think we'll be, I hope, and like you said, I hope we go for it a bit more, but obviously the other thing we can't factor into our discussion we're having now at the time of recording is the fact that we don't know what the results are from Sunday's games, because all the other five teams in the bottom six play on Sunday afternoon.
00:31:13
Richard
Yep.
00:31:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we don't know how that played before. There could be some bigger results there that put some pressure on us maybe go and get something or return it. There could be some comfortable results in our favor that work out, but then give us that extra little boost to think, right, points have been dropped there. We can, cause we know obviously if Leicester were to lose to Manchester city, then there's a chance we climb over them. i' go If we get a result, because our goal difference is better already. And obviously, and we could also go past walls if they get a goal difference works heavily in our favor from those two games that we're involved in. that You don't know what that context is going to be when we're making this prediction, but
00:31:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
I do think, regardless of what way that goes, there's going to be some sort of extra motivation there because the advantage of playing after the arrival, as they say it a lot in the title race, don't they? I know Arsenal, like the first year they had against City, where they were winning the whole season, lost it at the end, is because they were saying every single week they had to watch City play first and then go and win, which adds a bit of the pressure on, whereas there's almost the opposite down the bottom.
00:32:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
If you want to hear everyone go and play first and they lose again because they're out of form, then that can spur you on. So we sort of have a bit of hope that those results go our way on Sunday and then spur us on. But I'd like to think we could get a draw in all honesty. I know I'm i'm not even positive. I've been positive. It didn't work out very well for me last time. But I do think that Chelsea did just start to falter a little bit. But look, I like to say the same with new cast. If they turn it on, we're in trouble because the so the quality difference is simply there.
00:32:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
You see the people like Palmer, but some of those players who have been in quite good form recently, starting to tail off ever so slightly.
00:32:47
Richard
Yeah.
00:32:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
So Jackson's been willing heaps of praise the last few weeks, but he missed a few sitters against Brentford before he got his goal, which proved to be the winner in the end. And then he had a chance against Everton, he should have scored.
00:33:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then he he didn't do too much against Fulham. He's starting to just, he seems like a bit of a confidence player to me, Jackson, that once he gets a couple of goals, he goes on a good run. there is He's had a couple of slightly off games now, so he might not be full of confidence.
00:33:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I feel like that there's a put, there's, well, obviously there's, we don't know how it's going to play out, but I wouldn't stretch as far as how there's a win there, but I'd certainly say there's a draw there to get the Chelsea that we're not going to get many better times to play them because they will, they are going to have good runs and bad runs, but we've got lucky that we'll catch them in a bad run.
00:33:34
Richard
Yeah.
00:33:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's an opportunity to go and make the most of it, I think, rather than just don't be boring like Arsenal. Obviously you focus defensively because That is why they've struggled the last couple of games, Chelsea, because they've full-on turned up with five at the back and hit him on the break, ever.
00:33:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we know what they're like, have how dice is set up for his last three games. And we know how it goes there. That has been their sort of struggle, same as Arsenal. So defensive-focused, but not as much as Arsenal.
00:33:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we actually still to do something going forward. And I think there's a result there for us, in all honesty. I wouldn't dare put prediction on it, though.
00:34:05
Richard
Yeah, I mean I think yeah No, I mean, I think with the Arsenal thing, you know, McKenna had to do that, didn't he, right? We just shipped four against Newcastle and one of those goals looked awful. I think it was the third goal. It looked utterly awful. We were just standing around in defence, like watching the ball go in. It was kind of back to the championship days where you used to watch like Ipswich, you can see goals and you're like, what on earth is going on here? So the confidence clearly is low and I think it is low throughout the team.
00:34:33
Richard
Yeah, I mean, I think it goes back to a little bit to what I'm clutching at straws here, maybe a little bit, but I think the fact that the Mareska side of, you know, the Leicester side, his Leicester side last year, albeit they went up as champions just about. We did give them two really, really good games and I think we did cause them a few problems. I remember We probably got outplayed by them at home actually, but ah ah away they batted us for the first half, certainly. But we really came back into that game and they didn't really have an answer to that. So we we adapted quite well to that. And I know they've both ended in draws, but again, on paper, Leicester had a far superior squad to us last year. So that could be a thing. You know, he's come up against McKenna twice and he hasn't beaten him. And I think McKenna tactically has kind of
00:35:16
Richard
you know adapted really, really well in both of those games. So maybe that's something to to hold our hat on. Another thing is Morsy's going to come back into the team. He'll be fresh. I think he can give Cole Palmer something to think about because I think he's going to be physical with him and he'll probably just stick to him like glue as much as he possibly can. Phillips, I imagine, will come out of the team and and because you say will probably keep his place alongside Morsy. And we need more from the forward line. and Hutchinson was a little bit of the odd spark against united against Arsenal, but I felt he was going down too easily at certain points and stuff. I really want to see Amari Hutchinson like grab the game. And yeah, you know, Smodix is obviously not playing with a lot of confidence, the laps in a little poor run of form potentially. So we need a lot of things to go our way. But I think if we can avoid going behind in the first 20 minutes, we'll give ourselves a chance of maybe getting a point out of the game. And my prediction very vaguely would be 1-1.
00:36:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we'll see how I go. I want to just quickly touch on that Hutchinson point you made there. Because there's one I raised following the Arsenal game that, where would you, well, firstly, would you play him against Chelsea? or And then secondly, sort of where? Because I said, I made the point over the weekend that, well, what I don't get about Hutchinson this year is that we had we've had big discussions about where to play him and sort of, we kept fighting at him in number 10 when we kept saying, should we put him on the right? And then just as we sort of We waited till he was just starting to crack number 10, had a couple of good games, then we pushed him to the right, then he took a couple of games to sort of get used to that again.
00:36:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Then he was just starting to crack it with some good performances on the right, and then we chucked him in the number 10 again. I thought he was quite poor against Arsenal. I thought that he was putting that 10-roll to be the one to get us out, and he wasn't doing it.
00:37:00
Richard
a
00:37:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
He was hanging on to the ball for too long. He was going down too easy, trying to win cheap free kicks. I thought that was far from his best game, and ah I feel like we keep getting to the point where he's putting in the good positions and then we're changing the position again and it's starting to not work again.
00:37:12
Richard
Yeah, yeah i think i I think McKenna is searching, isn't he, for combinations up front for those three behind Dilap?
00:37:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's wonder, where do you think the best way to go is or focus participant particularly for this Chelsea game? Where would you say that the best spot for him?
00:37:30
Richard
He's not consistently found it all year. He's chopped and changed quite a lot. don't really know why Broadhead hasn't started a game. He, he he he for me, would should have started a game by now. because I think he's just got that you know continuity and he was never a 90 minute player as we discussed before. So I'm not saying you you're replacing another player permanently. I just think that he offers He offers traction with the ball. He's a bit clever on the ball. He releases it a little bit earlier and I think Dilap and Hutchinson have both fallen into the, we need to do it ourselves. So they are hanging onto the ball more often than not and they're getting caught. Hutchinson's a tricky one. he's not he's We've talked about him and you know the expectation is so was so high and I don't think he has lived up to that, but I think it's very harsh to kind of be too critical of him based on his lack of Premier League experience, his age, et cetera.
00:38:20
Richard
and but I don't think he has lived up to the hype and I think he's still learning and there's growing pains of like what he needs to do to become a an effective player at this level. He never goes on the outside ever. fact the Ipswich wing has never ever go on the outside and I think you've seen at other clubs like bigger clubs where if you don't have that in your locker you become very one-dimensional and a bit easier to defend because the ball is constantly coming inside, it's constantly coming in at the same angle into the box and defenders can get used to it. Ipswich have to have players that develop that and if it's not Hutchinson then you and I don't think he can play as a winger at this level, he would have to go into a number 10 role or whatever.
00:38:59
Richard
so I think that side of his game has to develop and the same on the other side we need a winger that can go on the outside as well as coming in so yeah he's an interesting one I think the Arsenal game was an emotional one for him he started his career there I think the Chelsea game is going to be an emotional one for him because obviously you know he didn't make it there So whether you take him out of the firing line or you give him another opportunity to kind of like show what he can do, I personally would keep him in the team as a winger, but I would encourage him to start thinking about you've got to mix up your game here because you're becoming a bit predictable in and how you receive the ball and you know where you're going to go and what you're going to do with it. Yeah, that would be my thought on him. But I think he's McKenna's favorite. And I mean that in the best possible way. So I don't i don't see him being dropped and I don't really see
00:39:48
Richard
Jack Clarke making a difference ahead of him to be perfectly honest. You could you could play Schmodix out on the on the right maybe, or Burns could come into the team, but I think he'll he'll stick with Hutchinson and probably play Chaplin in the 10.
00:40:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think I think I agree with that. I I think purely that for me I see him better out on the wing as we were saying from the start of the year because like I thought he was saying that some of the alternatives there give me the isolated choice if you tell me pick your number 10 to start this week, Chaplin or Hutchinson. I'm going to say Chaplin at the moment, whereas if you tell me the winger options, I'm not going to, I'm not going to say, yeah, let's put Burns or Clark in ahead of him, broad heads, the question mark, because then we haven't seen him from the start. So we don't know, maybe he might just be that 20 minute cameo off the bench. That might be his role this year. We don't know what he's like from the start yet. But that's where I think for me, I think that's what we need to sort of
00:40:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're going to have a settled one. We're still trying to find those combinations. Smodix, Chaplin, Hutchinson is the closest we've seen to settled. I think in terms of those three, that's the best. That's what I would still say the best is. So hopefully the way of whatever that, whether it's those three or whatever combination starts to work, then we get one that works and we can start doing something because we have the weird problem really compared to a lot of the team. A lot of the teams around us are where they are because they're not very good defensively, but we're actually, we're not bad defensively.
00:41:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
in all things considered, we're not too bad. But but particularly recent games, we've sort of focused on it a lot in the last few games. you got On the Newcastle side, we've been doing a lot better. It has just been sort of individual mistakes rather than we've been quite hard to break down generally. Like say newcast the aside for I But I think there will be some confidence taken from that Arsenal game as well that I know we lost the game. but one of the team one of the best teams in the league, and we kept them really quiet.
00:41:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like I say, it's one slight lapse in concentration, lost us the game, but we limited them to barely any chances.
00:41:40
Richard
okay
00:41:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
One of the best, I know they were missing Saka, but one of the best attacking teams in the league, were really we kept them really quiet. That'll be a bit of a confidence boost to the back line, I think. But then we'll see how that carries in to and into tonight's game.
00:41:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
But tentative predictions of draw from both of us.
00:41:57
Richard
I hope so. but it but but Yeah, tentative tensive but we also just one quick thing on the, yes, I agree with you defensively.
00:42:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:42:04
Richard
We did look a lot more solid, but my God, Maric just does not convince me at all. I mean, even the Jaysus goal that got disallowed, I don't know if you remember that.
00:42:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:42:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:42:15
Richard
But he scored at the near post, and he was he was trying to save it with his feet.
00:42:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Shouldn't be getting beat.
00:42:20
Richard
I was just like, what on earth? you It was like it literally ah ah a kid at school being in goal. It was really, really odd. So yeah, I'm not i'm not remotely convinced, unfortunately.
00:42:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, like I say, but that's the area.
00:42:35
Richard
But let's not finish on the negative.
00:42:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's the other question mark.
00:42:36
Richard
which
00:42:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's the other area of question mark for January, isn't there? Because we know McKenna doesn't like to swap goalkeepers, but maybe maybe signing somebody in January is rather than putting your effectively a number two in goal might be the way around his not swapping your goalkeepers stance he likes to take, but we'll see.
00:42:41
Richard
Yeah.
00:42:54
Richard
Maybe, maybe.
00:42:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
But not as much confidence as the last time me and you sat down for a preview, is there? but We're still more confident than many facts could have been.
00:43:01
Richard
No mate, which means we're going to win, right?
00:43:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, it seems to be the way I go, and I'm more negative about predictions. ah i tend to We tend to do better because I said we draw the walls and we beat. And when I thought I was being conservative, when I said 2-0 against Arsenal and I was 1-0, we played fairly well for most of the game.
00:43:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
and then So maybe when my call I've got ahead on the cautious side again, so maybe by predict and draw, that means we'll go and win.
00:43:23
Richard
Yeah.
00:43:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll see how it works out. But thank you for listening to today's episode. Like I say, normal schedule resume now, back to Monday to Friday. We've had our Christmas fun and we'll be say we're back on the grind until at least a March international break for now, as far as I know. And then all but sorts of fun coming up with the FA Cup in the next couple of weeks as well. But that's it for today. We'll be back with you tomorrow for a reaction to the Chelsea game where fingers crossed we've got a positive result to speak about. But until then, see you later.