📊 Form Guide

Ipswich Town

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Ipswich Town, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 2-1 Championship triumph against Oxford United.

In that game, Ipswich Town had 64% possession and 19 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. For Ipswich Town, the scorers were Jaden Philogene (17') and Chuba Akpom (40'). On the other side, Oxford United had 8 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. Will Lankshear (34') was the scorer for Oxford United.

In their last 6 fixtures, Kieran McKenna's Ipswich Town have hit the back of the net a total of 9 times - an average number of goals per match of 1.5.

Blackpool

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Since being beaten in their last game against Bradford City in League One action, Blackpool and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

The only name on the scoresheet from Blackpool was Ashley Fletcher (56'). Aden Baldwin (25') and Will Swan (67') scored for Bradford City.

In their previous half-dozen clashes, Blackpool have bagged a tally of 11 goals. Blackpool have also managed to score on each one of those occasions. Over that period, they’ve had 9 goals go into their own net.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 01/11/2014 shows us that Ipswich Town have won 4 of these and Blackpool 1, with the number of draws being 1.

A combined total of 21 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 14 for The Tractor Boys and 7 for The Seasiders. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.5.

The previous league meeting featuring these sides was League One match day 28 on 06/02/2021 which ended up with the score at Ipswich Town 2-0 Blackpool.

The referee was John Busby.

📰 Team News: Ipswich Town

Conor Townsend (Cruciate ligament tear) and Sammie Szmodics (unknown injury) will not be able to play for Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna.

🔮 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Blackpool should get enough chances to find the net against this Ipswich Town side, however that might not quite be enough to prevent defeat.

Our tip is for both teams to score in a 2-1 winning margin for Ipswich Town when all is said and done. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Peter Guest, 09:02 08/01/2026