Swansea City v Ipswich Town – McKenna expecting physical test

Saturday, 17 February 2024, 9:25
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Kieran McKenna brings his promotion chasing Ipswich Town side to the Swansea.com Stadium today expecting a physical test against a side who have proven to be rolled over far too easily in recent weeks.

The midweek 4-0 defeat to Leeds for the Swans was just one of a few results where the Swans have afforded too much space and respect to their opposition and found themselves out of the game inside the first twenty minutes.

That will be a mistake that I am sure Luke Williams will want to avoid this afternoon and McKenna is certainly wary of the plan of Williams to try and turn Swansea into an aggressive team both on and off the ball.

Ipswich’s promotion run has faltered a little in recent weeks but a 4-0 midweek win at Millwall has got them back into the hunt and they come into today’s game already playing a little bit of catch up due to Southampton’s 2-0 win at West Brom yesterday evening.

โ€œWe know it will take a big physical effort but itโ€™s a game to look forward to in a busy spell of the season where the games come thick and fast. We relish that,” McKenna told Ipswich’s TV channel.

โ€œLuke (Williams) hasnโ€™t been there for too long but you can see exactly what they are trying to do, as an aggressive team both on and off the ball. They have a good tradition as a football team for playing nice football and itโ€™s a nice pitch in a nice stadium, so it should make for a good game.ย 

โ€œWeโ€™ll go there looking to impose themselves and they will do the same for sure, so it will be an interesting game.ย 

โ€œSwansea have been a good Championship team and a Premier League club not that many years ago, so itโ€™s one we should look forward to and one the supporters should hopefully enjoy.โ€ย 

The Swans do have the advantage of 24 hours more to prepare for the game with their game on Tuesday being followed on Wednesday by Town’s game at Millwall and it is something that McKenna is more than aware ofย โ€œWe think everyone came through but weโ€™re still recovering and weโ€™ll do a light session before we go again,โ€ he added.ย 

โ€œWe seemed to come through with no problems, everyoneโ€™s in good spirits and weโ€™re looking forward to the next game.ย 

โ€œOur preparation will be done in a different way because we wonโ€™t have mucb time on the grass, but we have plenty of experience of that and weโ€™ll be ready come 3pm on Saturday.โ€ย 

Images courtesy of Getty Images, Athena Picture Agency and Swansea City Football Club.

Phil Sumbler

Been watching the Swans since the very late 1970s and running the Planet Swans website (in all its current and previous guises since the summer of 2001 As it stood JackArmy.net was right at the forefront of some of the activity against Tony Petty back in 2001, breaking many of the stories of the day as fans stood against the actions where the local media failed. Was involved with the Swans Supporters Trust from 2005, for the large part as Chairman before standing down in the summer of 2020.

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