PREVIEW: IPSWICH v PETERBOROUGH (Sports Insure Prem)

IPSWICH boss Ritchie Hawkins has warned his team of the need to avoid a Peterborough upset when the sides meet at Foxhall tonight (Thursday).

The Witches have lost three home matches this season, doing significant damage to their Sports Insure Premiership play-off hopes, whilst the Panthers pulled off a shock 45-45 scoreline at Wolverhampton on Monday before losing out on an extra point in a Super Heat.

Ipswich are unchanged from Monday’s fixture, with Connor Mountain again stepping in at reserve for the visitors in place of Hans Andersen. They are also without Jordan Jenkins after a heavy crash on Wednesday, and he is replaced in the Rising Star berth by Sam Hagon.

Hawkins said: “They put in a great showing at Wolves and I’m sure that took Wolverhampton and a lot of people by surprise.

“We can’t afford to be lax because Peterborough are a team that have punished us in the past even when they have been struggling everywhere else.

“We are going to need to be on our toes and give them the respect they deserve so that we do not get upset again at home.”

Panthers No.1 Niels-Kristian Iversen said: “I think if we take some of the things from Monday to Ipswich then we can get another good result.

“They’ve been struggling a little bit; they’ve got the strongest top two in the league, but I would say we should be able to match the rest of their team.

“There’s still a lot of racing to go and if we can win some meetings on the road then it would obviously be good and that would help us pick up our form when we get back to the home meetings as well.”

IPSWICH: Emil Sayfutdinov, Keynan Rew, Danny King, Erik Riss, Jason Doyle, Danyon Hume, Dan Thompson.
PETERBOROUGH: Niels-Kristian Iversen, Richie Worrall, Benjamin Basso, Ben Cook, Vadim Tarasenko, Connor Mountain, Sam Hagon.