The natives are restless in Norwich, and while the pitchforks aren’t yet being sharpened, Liam Manning needs to get more out of his cosmopolitan squad, and a result in the derby would certainly help him win over a few doubters.

Kieran McKenna has more credit in the bank over in Suffolk, but expectations are high following their spending and Premier League spell.

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📈 Ipswich v Norwich Form & Tactics

Ipswich are stumbling and stuttering a little when it comes to their results. Performances haven’t been great either, but they have probably done enough as a whole body of work to warrant having a few more points on the board.

They have won the xG battle in all eight of their matches so far this season, so to have picked up a victory in only two of those matches suggests that they either have been very unlucky, or that there are some deficiencies in either, or both, boxes.

They have actually tracked their xG data pretty well though in terms of how many goals they have scored (12) compared to expected (12.3), but their overall xG only ranks them fifth in the league. Ipswich are eighth for shots on target and fourth for xG conceded as well.

Norwich have had a poor start to the campaign. Initially they looked quite strong with Josh Sargent scoring in every match, but their high point was a 2-0 win at Blackburn in late August. Since then they have drawn away at Coventry and Stoke, not bad results in isolation, but they have let themselves down in their home matches, losing to West Brom and Wrexham.

Surprisingly, Liam Manning's main issue seems to be defensively. As a coach Manning is usually very good at preventing too many chances being created against his teams, but Norwich are 22nd in the league for xG against, and are actually lucky to have not conceded more than they have. The attack is ok, but they only average 3.6 shots on target per match, which ranks them 14th.

📔 Ipswich v Norwich Formation & Team News

Kieran McKenna is a 4-2-3-1 man through and through, I barely remember him deviating from this system whilst he has been at Ipswich since their days in League One. Leif Davis is the key creative cog from left-back, which usually means that Ben Johnson or Axel Tuanzebe provide more defensive balance from the right. There is always fight and energy in central midfield, and the chief threat comes from wide forwards.

There is no change to availability for McKenna, injuries to Conor Townsend and Harry Clarke keep his defensive options limited, and there is deep competition for places further forward but we expect George Hirst to lead the line.

Liam Manning also likes to use a 4-2-3-1 system. This worked excellently for him at Bristol City last season, and there is definitely the personnel to fit this system at Norwich as well, yet it hasn't seemed to have been too successful yet. Josh Sargent is the perfect Championship striker for the 4-2-3-1, and the return of Kenny McLean should help the central midfield balance.

There are no fresh injury concerns for Liam Manning, so he has an unchanged squad to select from. The difficulty could be choosing the correct selection of attackers in behind Josh Sargent, with no-one making an especially strong case for themselves on current form.

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