Kieran McKenna says Ipswich will “give it everything” in their bid to clinch promotion after he was named Championship manager of the season.
Town are one point clear at the top of the table with three games left as they look to return to the Premier League for the first time since 2002.
Although they drew with Middlesbrough in their last game, chief rivals Leicester and Leeds were both beaten.
“It’s going to go down to the last week,” said head coach McKenna.
“We just broke the [points] record for any newly promoted team in the Championship, 89 points – I’m not sure any team in the history of the EFL has got 90 points two seasons in a row and we’ve got a chance to do that.”
Securing a top-two finish will not be easy for the Tractor Boys as their next two games are away, at Hull and Coventry, who are just outside the play-off places, before a home match against Huddersfield.
But McKenna believes a break until Saturday’s trip to Humberside will be good for his players.
“Some of the boys have played five games in the last 15 days, played 90 minutes every game – we’d like to have a little more depth in one or two positions,” he said following the 1-1 draw with Boro.
“That’s an awful lot of football and every game’s gone to the wire. We’re the team that runs the most in the league, the boys put everything into it physically, and I think we’ll come back from the period stronger.”
He added: “Now we’ve got a little bit of time to train, prepare, recover and then we can look forward to three games. We know it’s going to be really tough, but it’s something to relish and I know we’ll give it everything.”ybody.”
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