PREVIEW: KING’S LYNN v IPSWICH (ROWE MOTOR OIL PREM)
ROWE Motor Oil Premiership leaders Ipswich head to King’s Lynn tonight (Thursday) for a local derby which has regularly gone in their favour in recent years.
The Witches are unbeaten in their last seven league visits to the Adrian Flux Arena and are looking to bounce back from a 16-point defeat at Leicester last week.
Meanwhile the Stars have won their last three home matches in all competitions, but Benjamin Basso has joined their injury list.
Lewis Kerr and Zach Cook step in as guests, with rider replacement also in operation, whilst the Witches use r/r for Jason Doyle and Dan Thompson returns from a shoulder injury.
King’s Lynn operations manager Dale Allitt said: “We all know the difficulties that exist with finding guests when there are six teams in action on the same night, and our situation is fairly extreme in that we have three spaces to fill.
“There are other injuries and riders unavailable elsewhere, so in the circumstances we’ve got the strongest line-up we can, and we’d like to thank Lewi and Zach for stepping in and we wish them well.
“Ipswich is always a tough meeting, we know what a good record they have around here, but we’ve dug deep at home before and we’ve been on a good run lately, so if we can score right down the team we can still pull off a result.”
Ipswich boss Ritchie Hawkins said: “It’s a place we go to full of confidence and we always go there looking to win. They have got their injury troubles as we have, but we certainly go there focused on getting the win and keeping ourselves in a strong position at the top of the table.
“I’ve mixed the riding order up a bit with using R/R for Jason, I feel it balances it out better to attack the King’s Lynn team.
“Danny (King) is very good at King’s Lynn and so is Adam (Ellis), so we have three strong heat leaders there. If the other boys can chip in with a few as well, then we are going to be very strong on the night.”
KING’S LYNN: Lewis Kerr, Benjamin Basso r/r, Jan Kvech, Niels-Kristian Iversen, Zach Cook, Patryk Wojdylo, Anders Rowe.
IPSWICH: Jason Doyle r/r, Adam Ellis, Emil Sayfutdinov, Dan Thompson, Danny King, Keynan Rew, Jordan Jenkins.
SCB Referee: Tony Steele
