Backroom team doing vital job for Ipswich - Furlong

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Backroom team doing vital job for Ipswich - Furlong

Darnell Furlong says the Ipswich medical staff will be a vital part of Ipswich's push for promotion.

Backroom team doing vital job for Ipswich - Furlong

Darnell Furlong says the Ipswich medical staff will be a vital part of Ipswich's push for promotion.

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Ipswich Town full-back Darnell Furlong highlighted the work behind the scenes of the physios and medical staff after scoring his first goal for the club in their victory at Charlton Athletic.

The game at The Valley was the first of three in a row away from home and Town will be certain of automatic promotion back to the Premier League if they can win two of them.

Ipswich have been affected by a number of injuries of late and left-back Leif Davis was missing against Charlton with a hamstring problem.

"It's a very tough schedule with a lot of games (having been) cancelled and having to be replayed but the squad is doing everything possible to prepare for it," Furlong told BBC Radio Suffolk.

"We're going to need the whole squad as we've shown already. We've got a great team behind us and they do everything they can to get us in the best shape possible and we're very thankful for that as players."

When asked about the importance of the victory, Furlong described the 2-1 comeback win at Charlton as "massive".

"The emotion on the pitch and the stress we're going through, but [we have] the resilience to keep going and do what we believe in and we get there in the end.

"There's always pressure whenever you step onto a football pitch, you are demanding from yourself, you want to go and get three points obviously - the games are bigger and mean more at the moment with the stage of the season we're at but we've all been there before, it is what it is and we keep going."

Furlong's goal came in his 37th appearance for Ipswich this season - and was his first since March 2025 when he scored for his previous club West Brom against Leeds.

"It was a nice time to do it, I've been wanting to get that goal for the club so I'm thankful it happened.

"There were a lot of bodies in the way so I couldn't kind of see it but managed to catch it at the end just as it went in so it was a great feeling, but just a case of business as usual after the game," he said.

Ipswich's next game is against West Brom at The Hawthorns in a lunchtime kick-off on Saturday.

Furlong still has friends at the West Midlands club, where he spent six years, and is pleased they have avoided relegation.

"It'll be nice to see some people there. It'll be strange going there as the away team, but I've done it before when I was at West Brom and went to QPR," he added, refering to another of his former clubs.

"We'll be going for the three points but it's nice to see them safe - I knew they'd get out, I knew they had the quality it was just a case of a bit of confidence - I'm happy for them but focused on us."

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