AFC Bournemouth vs Ipswich Town Prediction, Preview & Betting Tips

AFC Bournemouth versus Ipswich Town will be an interesting contest, however, the hosts come into this game as firm favourites.

The Cherries are 10th in the Premier League with 44 points from 29 matches, while Ipswich Town are 18th-place with just 17 points from the same number of games, while scoring 28 times and conceding 62 goals.

Andoni Iraola’s men have the 11th-best home record in the Premier League as they have accumulated 21 points from 14 matches, while Ipswich Town’s away record is dismal, as they have earned just ten points from the same number of games, while averaging two goals conceded per game away from Portman Road.

The last meeting between these two sides saw Bournemouth run out as 2-1 victors in East Anglia, a scoreline that we can see being replicated here.

Prediction: AFC Bournemouth 2-1 Ipswich Town

AFC Bournemouth hosts Ipswich Town at the Vitality Stadium in a meeting of 10th and 18th in the Premier League.

Date: 02/04/2025

Location: Vitality Stadium

Time: 7:45pm

As previously mentioned, Bournemouth earned a 2-1 win over Ipswich Town at Portman Road on 8th December in a game that the Tractor Boys will feel that they ought to have won, having taken a 21st-minute lead through Conor Chaplin, before 87th minute and 95th minute goals from Enes Unal and Dango Ouattara turned the game on its head.

In the Premier League, Bournemouth are just five points behind fourth-place Chelsea despite sitting in 10th-place, as they have 44 points from 29 matches, meaning that they are in a battle for European football. On the other hand, Ipswich Town have managed just 17 points from 29 games, seeing them sit nine points adrift of 17th-place Wolverhampton Wanderers, meaning that Kieran McKenna’s side are in desperate need of points.

Iraola’s men are solely focussing on the Premier League following their 2-1 FA Cup defeat at home to Manchester City last time out, having previously progressed past the likes of Wolves (5-4 on penalties after a 1-1 draw), Everton (2-0) and West Bromwich Albion (5-1). The Cherries were defeated 1-0 by West Ham United in the League Cup.

Ipswich Town’s domestic cup campaigns are also over, as they were knocked out by Nottingham Forest in the Fifth Round on 3rd March via penalties after a 1-1 draw, while in the League Cup the Tractor Boys suffered a humiliating penalty shootout loss at AFC Wimbledon following a 1-1 draw.

AFC Bournemouth versus Ipswich Town will not be shown on live TV in the UK.

AFC Bournemouth

Julian Araujo, Marcus Tavernier, Luis Sinisterra and Enes Unal will all miss this clash due to injury.

Ipswich Town

Ipswich will be without the likes of Arijanet Muric, Axel Tuanzebe, Wes Burns, Sammie Szmodics, Conor Chaplin and Chiedozie Ogbene for their trip to the Vitality Stadium.

AFC Bournemouth

Bournemouth’s only victory in their last five outings was their FA Cup win over Wolves via a penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw where Evanilson got on the scoresheet before Matheus Cunha’s stunning 60th-minute equaliser.

Last time out, the Cherries were knocked out of the FA Cup by Manchester City as Evanilson’s 21st-minute opener was cancelled out by goals from Erling Haaland and Omar Marmoush. Prior to that game, Bournemouth had suffered defeats to both Brentford (2-1) and Brighton (2-1) on either side of a thrilling 2-2 draw at Tottenham Hotspur.

Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town have lost all of their last five matches, with two of those defeats coming at the hands of Nottingham Forest, following a heavy 4-2 home defeat prior to the international break, as well as a penalty shootout loss in the Fifth Round of the FA Cup despite taking the lead in that game through George Hirst before Ryan Yates scored a 68th-minute equaliser.

McKenna’s men have suffered defeats to Crystal Palace (1-0), Manchester United (3-2) and Tottenham Hotspur (4-1) during this sequence of matches.

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