CHANCE! Early opportunity for Palace to take the lead! Wharton plays a superb ball in behind the Ipswich defence for Nketiah to sprint onto the end of and the striker only has Palmer to beat, but the keeper makes an excellent save to deny Palace the opener. He should be scoring!

When speaking in the pre-match press conference, Crystal Palace boss Smerud said that the focus is on intergrating his principles into the team rather than worrying about the opposition.