EFL Championship LIVE: Southampton vs Ipswich Town – team news, build-up, score & live text updates

In August, Kieran McKenna’s males have been the chances-on favorites for promotion, nonetheless they took some time to rise up to hurry and left themselves an excessive amount of to do within the title race within the again half of the marketing campaign.

Four video games with out a win to start out the marketing campaign left Town nineteenth however they swept apart leaders Coventry at Portman Road on 6 December, after which beat Stoke City 4 days later to leap into the highest 5, and have stayed there ever since.

Ipswich beat the eventual champions residence and away by an mixture score of 5-0 and did the double over rivals Norwich City for the primary time in 33 years, however relegated Leicester took 4 factors off them they usually additionally misplaced to Oxford United, one other facet certain for League One.

While Coventry have been wobbling on the summit within the new yr, giving the chasing pack a glimmer of hope, Town went down 3-1 at Sheffield United, drew at residence to Preston and misplaced 5-3 at Wrexham and even through the run-in misplaced 2-0 at struggling Portsmouth on 14 April to go away the door nearly open to the chasing pack.