Wes Burns suffers injury blow
During the club’s 6-0 thrashing of Sheffield Wednesday last weekend, Wes Burns sustained a hamstring injury, and, as a result, he has now withdrawn from the Wales squad this month.
It remains to be seen just how long Burns is out for, but Kieran McKenna’s comments suggested that it was a serious one.
“It doesn’t look great,” McKenna explained, via East Anglian Daily Times.
“It’s a hamstring and it doesn’t look like a minor one. I don’t think it feels like a minor one.
“Of course we’ll scan it over the next few days and assess it, but that’s the undoubted low point of today.
“Everyone is gutted for Wes down in the dressing room. We just have our fingers crossed that the severity isn’t as bad as it possibly could be.”
Ipswich Town can deal with Burns blow
With Burns’ injury, naturally, the issue of how Ipswich Town will fare without him arises.
The 29-year-old has featured 32 times in the Championship so far this season, and his absence will certainly leave a hole that needs to be filled.
Discussing that issue below, some of our FLW writers have offered their verdict.
Simmey Hannifin-Donaldson
This will be a real concern for Ipswich Town.
If McKenna is correct, and the hamstring injury is a serious one, it could see Wes Burns miss a lot of the remainder of the season.
Given the amount of games he has played for the club this season, and his eight goal contributions, clearly he is going to be a miss.
However, Ipswich Town can perhaps take some comfort in the fact that in the six games Burns has missed this season, they remain undefeated.
In those matches, the Tractor Boys have won three and drawn three, suggesting they have the squad to cope.
Omari Hutchinson is more than capable of filling in wide right for Burns, for example, even if it does require a bit of a tactical shake up through the middle.
The fact that Ipswich are third for substitute goal involvements in all competitions this season highlights their strength in depth in attacking areas and, as much as Burns’ injury is a blow, it is not enough to dismantle their promotion chances, or anything close to it.
