Sammie Szmodics was top scorer in the Championship last season with Blackburn Rovers.
Sammie Szmodics won so many man of the match awards last season that his house ended up stinking of champagne.
Szmodics says: “It has been a journey. The Ipswich manager Kieran says a lot about how we have all come from lower leagues, League Two, League One.“And I have loved every cap I have won for Ireland. I want to add more. The years since have been grim: competitive wins limited to Gibraltar, Finland, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Scotland and Luxembourg.
He said: “At a meeting this morning we touched on starting the game as well as we finish it. Not going a goal down before we start doing our bits. If that's a mental side of things or a togetherness side of things, we need to come up with an answer to that quickly and start playing games on a positive foot.
“We’ve got to get up for it from minute one. If it’s a mental side of things, there is a way of overcoming that, which we can do as a group. We’re all aware of what we need to do.”They are the kind of mottos that you find in a self-help book.
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