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Town visit Lincoln City on Wednesday as they continue their search for a first FA Cup tie victory since January 2010 and aiming to avenge 2017’s hugely embarrassing live-on-TV 1-0 loss to the Imps at Sincil Bank in the competition.
Town face Exeter City in a lunchtime Sky Sports game at St James Park on Saturday targeting their seventh away League One win of the campaign with manager Kieran McKenna anticipating an entertaining encounter (KO midday).
Boss Kieran McKenna wants Portman Road to be as noisy as it can be with more than 25,000 fans set to watch Saturday’s visit by Cheltenham Town.
Town boss Paul Lambert has made nine changes for this afternoon’s FA Cup first round tie against Portsmouth with centre-halves Toto Nsiala, who skippers, and Mark McGuinness the only players to survive from the team which lost 2-1 at Sunderland on Tuesday.
Sean Raggett scored a controversial 111th minute winner for Portsmouth as Town exited the FA Cup in the first round following a 3-2 after-extra-time defeat at Portman Road. Pompey scored two goals in two minutes via Ronan Curtis and Tom Naylor in the 11th and 13th minutes before Jon Nolan pulled a goal back for the Blues two minutes before half-time then, after Town had been denied a clear penalty for a foul on Oli Hawkins, sub James Norwood made it 2-2 on 66. Raggett won it for the visitors in the second half of extra-time when he stabbed home from close range following a free-kick but having...