Ipswich Town vs Middlesbrough: Championship stats & head-to-head

Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna expects to face certainly one of their hardest challenges of the season this lunchtime, regardless of Middlesbrough’s detached type of late.

Boro haven’t gained any of their previous six Championship video games however McKenna doesn’t consider the downturn displays the standard of Kim Hellberg’s facet.

“We know we’re facing a really strong opponent on Sunday, they’ve been stylistically one of the dominant teams in the league over the last few months – but they’ve also dropped a lot of points,” he informed BBC Radio Suffolk.

“What their form is coming into a game often doesn’t matter when you get a top team against another top team.

“They’ve been a very good crew for just a few years and have added to it nicely within the final couple of switch home windows – they usually’ve had good managers who’ve are available in and added their very own piece to it.

“They’re one of the teams, and there haven’t been too many, who will come and try and play their game.

“We will give them our full respect, we anticipate a very massive problem however we consider in ourselves and in our stadium we all know we’re a formidable crew to play in opposition to as nicely.”