Ipswich have 'different profile' to 2024 promotion team

Ipswich Town midfielder Jack Taylor says the current team should not be compared with the one which won promotion from the Championship two years ago.

Taylor is one of only a handful of players who were part of the side which reached the Premier League by finishing second with 96 points - their second successive promotion.

They are well placed in the automatic promotion race with Saturday's 2-1 win at Derby keeping them third in the table, five points behind second-placed Coventry, but with a game in hand.

"I don't think you can compare. The squad is completely different, if you look at all the players that have left and the players that have come in, it's a different profile so difficult to judge on that," he told BBC Radio Suffolk.

"Talent-wise, I'd say (there's) probably a little bit more now but the group we had at the time, we knew our jobs and the team didn't really rotate as much as it does this year."

He added: "The season we went up two years ago, teams didn't expect us to play how we did and came after us a little bit more - now we're playing against teams that are low blocking and getting bodies behind the ball, which is harder to break down.

"And we're expected to win every game now in the Championship, which is completely different to two years ago. That's the challenge we've got ahead of us."

Ipswich take a break from league action on Friday when they visit Wrexham in the FA Cup fourth round.