Not down just yet
Kieran McKenna has insisted that Ipswich Town are 'still in the fight' to avoid relegation.
Ahead of the season run-in, the Tractor Boys are 18th in the Premier League and nine points away from safety.
Bournemouth are their first opponents back from the international break on Wednesday before tough fixtures against Chelsea, Arsenal and Newcastle.
But when speaking in his press conference, manager McKenna was not one to write off their chances of survival.
"It's an important week for us. Of the nine remaining games, we've got two in four days," he said as per the East Anglian Daily Times.
"There's 27 points to play for and nearly a quarter of the season left so we know, from a points perspective, we're certainly still in the fight and we know that things can change really, really quickly this week with one positive result or two positive results.
"So there's still absolutely that belief that we can compete until the end of the season in terms of league positions.
"Irrespective of that, we've got a quarter of our first Premier League season in 22 years left.
"I think whether we were 16th, whether we were one point off the line where we want to be, or we were 24 points off the line of where we want to be.
"I couldn't really understand or legislate for any difference in the mindset here and the difference in how we prepare and the difference in how we go to the games.
"We need to go to every game, give absolutely everything we've got and try to do ourselves and our supporters proud. Hopefully we get good results from that and that'll leave us at the end of the season in a position that we're really, really happy with.
"That's still absolutely the focus and belief and we hope that a good week this week can really contribute to that. I don't see that changing any time soon."
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