'A chance to show togetherness, spirit and resilience'

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Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna says Friday's Premier League game against Arsenal at Emirates Stadium "is a fantastic one in the journey for this group of players and for the club".

He added: "We need to show the right mentality, first of all. It is a chance to show our togetherness, our spirit and resilience.

"Our organisation is going to have to be really good and we are going to have to show bravery in moments of the game as well to take them on in the way we want to."

On cutting down on individual errors - which proved costly in the heavy home defeat by Newcastle - he said: "It is about trying to develop the group, educating the players on different moments of the game and different situations, and what is the most appropriate decision to make in each situation.

"Then it is about working with them in that process because they are human beings.

"They are not going to get every judgement right in the level that we are operating at - the time and the margins to make your decisions are so, so, so fast."