Where is the game? Ipswich, I imagine, will be targeting the flanks. On the Villa right, Ezri Jonsa is not a full-back and Leon Bailey is no defender while, down their left, Digne likes to support the attack so there might be space in behind. Otherwise, Villa’s high line offers opportunities, but keeping them out never mind creating is easier said than done.

Email! “Oh Daniel, you said it, those negative expectations!” writes Richard Hirst. “In bracketing Fulham with Southampton as games Ipswich needed to win you seem to have failed to notice the table, where one of those teams is sixth!”

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