Ipswich manager Kieran Mckenna expects a tough match against West Ham.

Despite not winning a game, Ipswich will be extremely pleased with their start to the Premier League season. They've managed to pick up 4 points already, leaving them just 1 place and 1 point behind West Ham ahead of this weekend's fixtures.

The Hammers however are bitterly disappointed in their start, with just 1 win to their name. However, Ipswich boss Kieran Mckenna is well aware of the threat that West Ham can pose. "Let's hope we can make it really competitive. I don't think there will be many weeks this year when we are going to blow teams out of the water, so we have to work really, really hard to be competitive, we need to perform close to our best every week to be competitive, especially away from home"

"We need to be really, really good in all phases - with the ball, without the ball, on our set plays - against a really strong opponent who invested a lot in the summer and who have a high level of individual talent in their squad."

"They have a really good physical profile in every position and it is going to be a big test. But we know if we work as we have been over the last few weeks, we can impose our game - as I think we have increasingly done so as the weeks have gone on."

When it comes to West Ham's struggles, Mckenna puts it purely down to all the changes that have happened over the Summer. "West Ham are a new team, in that they have a new manager and two new centre-halves [Jean-Clair Todibo and Maximilian Kilman] playing together," he explained.

"They have a new right-back in Aaron Wan-Bissaka and they are integrating some other new players as well. They are still building what they want to be and we have a lot of respect for them."

"They are a very good team with a very good, experienced manager. They have signed a lot of good players on top of the very good players they already had. They have been a very competitive Premier League team for a number of years and we pay them a lot of respect in terms of how we prepare for the game and negate the things they do very well."

"But we will also go there with the same mindset as we do every week - and go there looking to impose ourselves, try and play our football and make sure we are very organised and resilient whenever West Ham are having their moments in the game."