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After creating a polite line, Premier League teams hoping to choose Kieran McKenna as their next manager may need to exercise patience.
Brentford, West Ham, and Crystal Palace are a few teams keeping an eye on the affable young manager of Ipswich Town. Why wouldn’t they? With his second victory away from home in four days, the 37-year-old kept the Tractor Boys’ momentum going in their quest for automatic promotion.
At Ipswich, the Northern Irishman is scoring an astounding two points every contest on average. All fans, however, might have to wait until the summer, as Palace are discovering, as McKenna asserted, “I am enjoying my job here.”
“That’s where my attention is right now, and I’m having a great time with this season.”
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Fans demand that Michael Beale, the manager of Sunderland, be fired for turning down a substitute.
However, despite McKenna’s failure to provide Ipswich consecutive promotions, its aspirational young leader might still advance. “In the end, that’s where I want to work and where I want to have an impact in my career,” he continued.
“I am able to assist players and teams at that level because I am familiar with it and have worked there. However, there are excellent coaches at every level.
McKenna, the former Manchester United coach under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Jose Mourinho, has only lost eight league games overall this season and last.
Conor Chaplin, who scored his 50th goal for the team, and Nathan Broadhead made it difficult for Ipswich to win their most recent match against Swansea, but they managed to win back-to-back games for the first time since mid-December.
Conor Chaplin celebrates his 50th goal for Ipswich Town with the players.
Conor Chaplin celebrates his 50th goal for Ipswich Town with the players. (Photo: PA)
“It was an impressive performance—one where we really hand to grind out the win on a difficult surface,” midfielder Chaplin remarked.
However, that is what we are most proud of. We saw players put their bodies on the line in tackles, excellent box defense, and forwards coming back and making connections to block crosses in wide areas or on the edge of the box.
With Leicester now well ahead, the victory keeps Ipswich, Leeds, and Southampton in the hunt for an automatic promotion position. A postseason berth appears to be the absolute lowest that Ipswich can hope for this season, having weathered a difficult stretch of games during the Christmas and New Year’s break.
Days before Christmas, Ipswich lost to Leicester and Leeds in their title matches, dropping points in both cases. They then settled for a point against the Foxes, drawing with them once more a few weeks later.
However, Ipswich still have a game in hand over Leeds, who are three points ahead of them in second place, and they have just Southampton left to play out of the top four as they try to overcome their rivals for promotion.
