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Town academy graduates have played nearly as many League One minutes as their counterparts at the six other clubs at the top of the division combined this season, according to Opta statistics.
General manager of football operations Lee O’Neill says upgrading the club's academy to category one is “definitely something that we are pushing forward for and that we would like to achieve”.
Keanan Bennetts gave the Blues an early lead but Joe Powell hit back for Burton Albion to leave the scoreline 1-1 at half-time at Portman Road.
Emyr Huws’s first league goal in more than three years saw Town to a 2-1 victory over League One’s bottom side Burton Albion at Portman Road. Keanan Bennetts gave the Blues the lead in only the fourth minute but Joe Powell hit back for the Brewers on 22 with Huws heading in a scruffy rebound 10 minutes from time to hand the points to the Blues, who as a result climb to fifth.
Town host bottom-of-the-table Burton Albion at Portman Road tonight aiming to return to winning ways with manager Paul Lambert looking for his players to get the basics right following Saturday’s 2-0 home defeat to Portsmouth which saw them drop to sixth.