McKenna facing keeper dilemma

Whilst Sindre Walle Egeli, George Hirst and Ivan Azon may have had their name in lights in the 3-0 Coventry win, the unsung hero was keeper Christian Walton.

The second-choice stopper made three crucial saves during the game. The most important ones in quick succession 28 minutes in, pushing a Josh Eccles shot onto the post and then being alert to the quick second phase to paw over a goal-bound opportunity from Ephron Mason-Clark.

Saturday's heroics were the fourth time in 10 games that Walton has stopped opposing teams from scoring. That puts him joint first in the Championship clean sheet percentage table with Millwall's Max Crocombe.

Admittedly, both have only played 10 games this season, as opposed to regulars like Coventry's Carl Rushworth, on a 37% clean-sheet ratio.

But Walton's clean-sheet record gets extra kudos when you see the player he is standing-in for, Alex Palmer, who has only kept one clean sheet in the same number of games as Walton before he was injured.

Walton has always been the bridesmaid and never the bride at Ipswich.

Question is, has he done enough to keep the Number One spot when Palmer returns from injury?

Palmer is back in training after his calf injury, so it will only be a matter of days or a couple of weeks before he is back in contention.

When it is time for that decision to be made, could renowned squad rotator Kieran McKenna change back to Palmer, or do the stats suggest Walton deserves to hold his place as first-choice keeper?