McKenna on Tuanzebe, Broadhead and hunt for first home win

Ipswich Town boss Kieran McKenna has been speaking to the media before Tuesday's home Premier League game against Crystal Palace (kick-off 19:30 GMT).

Here are the key lines from his news conference:

• Defender Axel Tuanzebe will be out "long term" with a "significant" hamstring injury sustained against Nottingham Forest with McKenna adding he has "some other knocks" in his squad which are "being assessed".

• Kalvin Phillips rolled his ankle against Leicester and Ben Johnson has a "small muscular injury" but both have trained today and should be fit for the visit of Bournemouth on Sunday if not for Tuesday evening.

• On Nathan Broadhead's first minutes of the season against Nottingham Forest: "He's training hard. Hopefully now he can stay injury-free for a period of time."

• When the first home win back in the Premier League comes it will be "brilliant": "We know it will come and we want it to come as soon as possible. In all of our draws at home we feel we could have won. We've got two chances to do that this week."

• On a busy December: "We're looking forward to it. We're used to busier spells like this. We'd love to have a full clean bill of health, but that hasn't been the case. We hope to have as many fit and available throughout this next spell. We're going into the period positive."

• Would he have taken this league position at this stage before the season?: "If you'd told me this is where we'd be in December, I think most would have been pretty pleased with that. We know we've got another step to make now in winning games more regularly."

• On the challenge posed by Palace: "Palace have a lot of top players, are picking up some form and we fully respect them. But it's about us trying to deliver a performance we can get behind. We'll approach it with a positive mindset like we do every home game. We'll try and start fast and score early. We believe we've got the qualities to go and win the game."

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