Ipswich Town v Millwall
Championship | Portman Road
Wednesday, 29 November 2023 @ 8.00pm
Ipswich Town host Millwall in Wednesday's late match at Portman Road looking to bounce back from defeat last time out in the Championship.
The Blues, who sit second in the league after 17 games, fell to a 2-0 away defeat to West Bromwich Albion on Saturday.
They face a Millwall side who also lost their last match, a 3-0 defeat to Coventry City, and who sit 18th in the table.
With 36 goals in 17 games so far this season, Ipswich are the league's highest scorers with 2.1 goals per game. And they are conceding at an average rate, letting in 23 goals at a rate of 1.4 per game.
Millwall, meanwhile, are below average scorers, with 1.1 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.4. They have conceded 1.3 goals per game.
In Václav Hladký, Town can rely on one of the league's safest pair of hands. He has kept six clean sheets in his 17 appearances this season, and only one other 'keeper – West Bromwich Albion's Alex Palmer – has been able to prevent the opposition scoring on more occasions in the Championship.
In the Lions' net, Bartosz Bialkowski has four clean sheets in 12 games. He has conceded a goal every 72 minutes, 10% more often than the 77 minutes between goals for Hladký.
In the last 10 years, Ipswich and Millwall have played each other on seven occasions. They won three each, and they drew once.
On average, the Blues scored 1.9 goals and the Lions 1.9 in those matches.
Their last meeting was on January 1 2019, when Millwall won 3-2 away.
The Blues are in reasonable form in the Championship, with three wins and two draws from their last six games.
With a win and two draws over that period, the visitors' form is much worse – they have taken five points from 18, compared to the home side's 11.
Wednesday's match will be refereed by Thomas Bramall, who has taken charge of five Championship games so far this season, issuing no red cards and booking 14 players. He has not awarded any penalties.
He is yet to oversee a match featuring either Ipswich or Millwall this season.