AFC WIMBLEDON vs IPSWICH TOWN - LEAGUE ONE HOME FIXTURE 2021/22 SEASON [25th JANUARY]

Tuesday 25th January 2022  KO 7:45pm
AFC Wimbledon will host their latest League One game at Plough Lane for the 2021-22 season against Ipswich Town, With the Dons still in the bottom five of the League One table it's an important game for survival after recent back to back goal less draws. Seem to be in for another season of struggle in 2022 so far and are currently in 19th position in the League One table on 28 points after 25 games played. Played away at Burton Albion on the weekend and took the lead through Ollie Palmer but had to settle for a 1-1 draw, moved us up one place. 

Team News - Will Nightingale and Ben Heneghan came back into contention for the trip to Burton, while player / coach Darius Charles is looking forward to helping Paul Kalambayi – another member of the “centre-half family” as he calls it – return to full fitness. Head Coach Mark Robinson is confident that we can start scoring goals again having gone five games without one before the Burton game. UPDATE - Striker Ollie Palmer has left the Dons and signed for Wrexham in a reported £300k deal. 

Recent League One Results
Burton Albion 1 - 1 AFC Wimbledon
Ipswich Town 2 - 1 Accrington Stanley

Looking at today's game itself this Saturday day in League One and our opponents today; Ipswich Town are currently managed by Kieran McKenna a Northern Ireland and Tottenham youth player and having had to end his career early went into coaching which included a period as Assistant at Manchester United during the tenure of Jose Mourinho. 

They find themselves in 9th position in the league table, with 38 points after 27 games played, losing 2-0 to Bolton Wanderers before hosting Accrington Stanley over the weekend winning 2-1. Men to watch for the opposition; Macauley Bonne on loan from Championship club Queens Park Rangers, and also a member of the Zimbabwe National Team. Has 12 goals so far this season and likely to go back to his parent club as a decent prospect. Also there is ex Dons striker Joe Pigott will probably be on the bench and doesn't seem to be getting the game time he would have expected. 

Head to Head

Our head to head form against Ipswich Town since our return to the league as AFC Wimbledon amounts to just five matches all in the past couple of seasons. One win apiece and three draws makes it a very even contest, be nice if we can repeat our 3-0 victory from April which was behind closed doors. I would take a scrappy 1-0 right now though.

Starting XI's [Confirmed]

AFC WIMBLEDON 

Win Odds - 17/10 [William Hill]

Tzanev (Gk),  Osew,  Heneghan (c),  Csoka,  Guinness-Walker,  Chislett,  Marsh,  Assal,  🟨McCormick,  Rudoni,  Cosgrove

SUBS - Oualah (Gk),  Nightingale,  Alexander,  Hartigan,  Awokoya-Mebude,  Ablade,  Kalinauskas

IPSWICH TOWN
Win Odds - 29/20 [William Hill]
Walton (Gk),  Donacien,  Woolfenden,  🟨Edmundson (c),  ⚽x2 Burns,  Bakinson,  Carroll,  🟥Vincent-Young,  Aluko,  Norwood,  Jackson

SUBS - Holy (Gk),  Pigott,  Chaplin,  Bonne,  Burgess,  Edwards,  Celina

Selected Bets On This Match;

• Over 1.5 goals in 1st half @9/4.
• Ayoub Assal to score at any time @4/1
• Penalty to be awarded and scored @9/2.
• Bookings under 45 points @12/5.

⚽Half Time Score - 0 - 0

First Half Comments;

Kick Off 7:45pm today at the Cherry Red Records, Plough Lane Wimbledon stadium. Be interesting to see who is playing up front tonight with Ollie Palmer's departure, appears to be Aaron Cosgrove with Assal and Rudoni in behind. Ipswich get the game underway now. First quarter of an hour is fairly uneventful with a few off target efforts, hope we can get into it more as the game progresses. A flurry of corners for the visitors but our defence holds firm, be nice if we can get something happening into the second period of this opening half. Sadly nothing much happens and we go into the break all square.

⚽Full Time Score - 0 - 2  [Burns 61' 86']

Match Summary;

A two nil defeat with a brace from Ipswich Town's Wes Burns in the second half leaves the Dons one place above the drop zone. The late sending off for Kane Vincent-Young didn't really affect the outcome. We clearly continue to lack any offensive threat, I am unsure how we will change this in the short term as only one goal scored in the last seven games is a poor return. 

My Man of the Match - Wes Burns.

Attendance - 8,117.

Today's Referee - Our match referee for this afternoon will be Mr Lee Swabey who hails from Devon, a very experienced referee at this level for over ten seasons we should be in safe hands tonight. averages only couple of cards per game and only one red in the last couple of seasons. His assistants tonight will be Paul Lister and Mark Stevens while on fourth official duties is Declan O'Shea.

Next league one fixture;
  vs Shrewsbury Town (Home)
  Saturday 29th January @3pm.