Wycombe Wanderers vs Ipswich Town - prediction, team news, lineups

Ipswich Town volition play their 2nd crippled successful the abstraction of 4 hours erstwhile they instrumentality connected Wycombe Wanderers connected Saturday afternoon.

The Tractor Boys volition spell up against Oxford United astatine midday earlier locking horns with the Chairboys astatine 4pm. 

Match preview

Wycombe volition beryllium hoping to equine a top-six bid successful the upcoming play aft settling for an 11th-placed decorativeness past term. 

After taking implicit the reins successful September 2025, Michael Duff volition beryllium grateful to person a afloat pre-season to enactment with the squad, which has welcomed plentifulness of caller additions, including the goalkeeping duo of Matt Macey and Conor Hazard.

The Chairboys person besides recruited Cauley Woodrow, Steve Cook and Silko Thomas connected imperishable deals, portion Sam Parker and Emre Tezgel person arrived connected indebtedness from Swansea City and Stoke City respectively.

In respect to matters connected the pitch, Wycombe started their pre-season with an emphatic 4-0 triumph implicit Ebbsfleet earlier they mislaid to Queens Park Rangers and Farnham connected the aforesaid time connected August 21.

They had overmuch amended fortunes successful past Saturday's treble header, which saw them bushed National League Yeovil Town 3-2 earlier moving retired 3-1 winners against Championship broadside Portsmouth.

The Chairboys volition beryllium looking for different beardown show successful their last pre-season outing arsenic they look to physique momentum up of their EFL Cup necktie against Stevenage and their League One opener against Blackpool. 

Ipswich volition caput into the 2026-27 play with a caller manager pursuing Kieran McKenna's determination to permission aft guiding the nine to automatic promotion. 

The Tractor Boys person welcomed Gary O'Neil arsenic their caller caput coach, arsenic good arsenic a big of caller additions, including the arrivals of Issa Diop, Abdul Fatawu and Emersonn. 

Ipswich started their pre-season docket with 2 behind-closed-doors games, beating Southend United 2-0 earlier playing retired a 2-2 gully against Cambridge United. 

They played different behind-closed-doors lucifer astatine the extremity of the grooming campy successful Spain, drafting 0-0 against third-tier Cartagena successful a crippled that saw Dara O'Shea person 1 of the friendly's 2 reddish cards.

Ipswich returned to England for Wednesday's affable against La Liga broadside Osasuna, with Chuba Akpom scoring successful a narrow 2-1 defeat astatine Colchester's Jobserve Community Stadium.

O'Neil's charges are present focusing connected Saturday's 2 friendlies against Oxford United and Wycombe earlier they circular disconnected their pre-season mentation with games against Le Havre, Rayo Vallecano and Union Berlin, which should springiness them capable clip to physique up their lucifer sharpness up of their Premier League opener against Sunderland connected August 22. 

Wycombe Wanderers friendlies form:

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Ipswich Town Club friendlies form:

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Team News

Wycombe defender Anders Hagelskjaer volition person to beryllium assessed aft being forced disconnected successful the 68th infinitesimal of the caller triumph implicit Portsmouth.

If helium proves his fitness, the Dane could diagnostic successful a backmost 4 with Sam Parker, Lewis Cook and Daniel Harvie.

Cauley Woodrow is apt to get the motion astatine the other extremity of the pitch, though helium could stock minutes with Emre Tezgel oregon Bradley Fink. 

As for the visitors, the make-up of the Ipswich lineup volition mostly beryllium connected who starts astatine Oxford earlier successful the afternoon, making it a pugnacious XI to predict.

The Tractor Boys volition decidedly beryllium without Azor Matusiwa and Jack Taylor, with the brace continuing to enactment connected their respective wounded recoveries. 

Christian Walton is besides sidelined with a ft problem, portion it remains to beryllium seen whether Scherpen, Diop and Maeda volition beryllium capable to diagnostic aft missing the caller affable with Osasuna. 

Wycombe Wanderers imaginable starting lineup:

Hazard; Parker, Cook, Hagelskjaer, Harvie; Morley, Boyd-Munce; Onyedinma, Henderson, Thomas; Woodrow

Ipswich Town imaginable starting lineup:

Van Oevelen; Furlong, Kipre, Diop, Johnson; McAteer, Compton; Burns, Egeli, Ogbene; Akpom

We say: Wycombe Wanderers 1-3 Ipswich Town

The crippled is hard to foretell owed to the uncertainty surrounding Ipswich's starting lineup, but with that said, the Tractor Boys boast large squad extent pursuing a big of caller additions, and we deliberation they volition bash much than capable to get the amended of their League One opponents. 

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