Overview
After two impressive victories over Southampton and Fulham to temporarily escape the bottom position, Wolves have returned to earth with three consecutive defeats. In those three defeats, they let their opponents score 10 goals, continuing to maintain the record of the team with the worst defense in the Premier League this season with a total of 38 goals conceded.
With only 9 points after 15 rounds, the risk of relegation is increasingly clear for the "Wolves". If they want to escape the red light group soon, they must make the most of the 2 upcoming matches against direct opponents to accumulate points. Including the match against Ipswich in the upcoming round of 16.
As for Ipswich, they also have 9 points after 15 matches, the same record as Wolves and are only temporarily ranked higher thanks to better secondary index. In recent matches, there have been times when Ipswich played quite well such as the 2-1 win over Tottenham or the 1-1 draw with Man United. However, the last 3 defeats have left them stuck in 18th place on the rankings.
Both Wolves and Ipswich are in dire straits and desperate for points to move out of the bottom three, but both teams will be cautious as another defeat would only deepen their woes.
The two sides met in the Carabao Cup last season, with Ipswich emerging victorious. Ipswich came back from 2-0 down to win 3-2 in a thrilling encounter at Portman Road. That ended Wolves’ seven-game unbeaten run against their opponents, although two of those games ended in draws.
Human resources situation
Wolves are without midfielder Joao Gomes after picking up his fifth yellow card of the season. They have no fresh injury concerns but Enso Gonzalez, Boubacar Traore, Sasa Kalajdzic and Yerson Mosquera remain absent.
On the other side of the front line, Ipswich are likely to be without Cheidozie Ogbene, George Hirst and Axel Tuanzebe, but Ben Johnson is back from injury.
Human resources situation
Wolves: Johnstone, Bueno, Semedo, T. Gomes, Doherty, Ait-Nouri, Lemina, Doyle, Andre, Strand Larsen, Cunha.
Ipswich Town: Muric, Davis, Burgess, Johnson, O'Shea, Morsy, Chaplin, Taylor, Szmodics, Delap, Hutchinson.
The match between Wolves and Ipswich takes place at 22:00 on December 14 (Vietnam time).
