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Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna revealed that goalkeeper Christian Walton will be sidelined 'for a number of weeks' with the groin strain that kept him out of yesterday's 2-1 home defeat to Southampton. A key player in the Blues' League One promotion season, Walton suffered a foot injury on the eve of the 2023/24 season and ended up losing his place for the entire season to Vaclav Hladky. After a new contract couldn't be agreed with Hladky, Ipswich went out and signed Aro Muric from Burnley for £8m.
He was dropped after a poor start to the season though and Walton recently started five Premier League games in a row. "He strained his groin in the Liverpool game. It's not a minor strain, it's a fairly significant strain, so he's going to be out for quite a number of weeks," explained McKenna, when asked about his keeper switch.
On whether Aro Muric could have done better for both goals - the first bounced past him, the second he pushed back into a dangerous area - the Blues boss said: "I haven't watched them back so it's not fair to judge yet because you're quite a long way away from it. "The starting point will always be, as a team, what we can do better. The first one comes from a goal kick, the second goal we have loads of bodies behind the ball.
We'll own it as a team, but we also need people to step up and make blocks and make saves as well.".
