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Second last meets dead last in Saturday’s bottom-of-the-table Premier League clash, where Ipswich Town welcome Southampton to Portman Road in a 2023-24 Championship rematch.
While only one place separates the two newly-promoted clubs in the relegation zone, the hosts are in with a fighting chance of survival, while Ivan Juris’s’s team need a miracle to preserve their top-flight status.
Having been hit for six at home to Manchester City in gameweek 22, Ipswich fans could have been forgiven for harbouring fears of an even more humiliating scoreline at Anfield, where Liverpool taught the Tractor Boys a footballing lesson as widely expected.
Kieran McKenna’s men ultimately did not suffer as bad a fate as they did against the champions, but the champions-elect still made light work of them in a 4-1 romping, as Dominik Szoboszlai, Mohamed Salah and Cody
Gakpo (two) struck before Jacob Greaves gave the travelling faithful something to smile about.
However, little joy can be taken from the hosts’ three-match winless run in the division, one that has plunged them back down below the dotted line into 19th spot, although a one-point gap to Leicester City in 17th is hardly insurmountable.
Home woes have played a huge part in Ipswich’s current predicament, as only Saturday’s visitors have collected fewer points on their own patch than the Tractor Boys’ seven, and five of their last six Premier League battles at Portman Road have ended in defeat.
The one aberration for McKenna’s men in that sequence was a momentous 2-0 success over title outsiders Chelsea, though, and perhaps for the first time in the current Premier League season, the Tractor Boys might head into Saturday’s showdown as the favourites.
