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Ipswich v Norwich: East Anglian derby returns with both sides in form

When Ipswich Town and Norwich City last met in a league game in February 2019, the situations of Kieran McKenna and David Wagner could hardly have been more different.

Less than two months earlier, McKenna had retained his place on the first-team coaching staff at Manchester United after Jose Mourinho was replaced by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

Wagner, by contrast, was out of work after leaving Huddersfield Town the previous month, with his team at the foot of the Premier League table.

Almost five years on, they will be in opposition dugouts as Ipswich and Norwich meet at Portman Road on Saturday in the 108th East Anglian derby - and it is Wagner who is under pressure to try and check the seemingly inexorable progress of McKenna's Tractor Boys towards a place in the top flight.