SHEFFIELD captain Kyle Howarth insists they just have to do their job to secure the KO Cup.

The Tigers go to Ipswich tonight defending a six-point lead from the first leg, live on BSN.

It should be another tense encounter with the sides unchanged from Monday night’s 48-42 win for the Tigers at Owlerton. 

Howarth said: “Is six points enough? Well we’ll see on Thursday. These meetings and finals are always meant to be close. 

“These two teams have worked hard for this all season and gone for it. 

“It was a great meeting and great racing at Owlerton, two good teams going into battle. 

“Obviously they’ve got a great No.1 and No.5 in Emil Sayfutdinov and Jason Doyle. We’ve got good riders in Chris Holder, Tobiasz Musielak.

“It was just one of those nights. We both fought hard. We are going to Ipswich with a six-point lead. We just need to do our job. There’s no reason why we can’t win there.”

The Tigers will once again use Max Fricke as a guest for the injured Tai Woffinden. Erik Riss is fit for the Witches despite a heavy fall on Monday night.  

Louis said: “We’re in it. The lads are happy. They were expecting it to be tough, it’s a cup final.” 

 

IPSWICH: Emil Sayfutdinov, Danyon Hume, Danny King, Erik Riss, Jason Doyle, Keynan Rew, Joe Thompson.

SHEFFIELD: Max Fricke (G), Kyle Howarth, Chris Holder, Josh Pickering, Tobiasz Musielak, Kyle Newman (G), Jason Edwards.

 

Words by Holeshot Media.

Image by Taylor Lanning.