Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna says his team will approach Sunday's Premier League home match against Manchester United with a mixture of 'humility and confidence'.

There's plenty of narrative in both dugouts, with McKenna taking on the club he was once assistant manager at and Ruben Amorim taking charge of United for the first time.

United are currently 13th in the table, having won just once on their travels across all competitions this season, while Ipswich come into it off the back of a huge win at Tottenham prior to the recent international break.

"This isn’t about me," insisted McKenna. "It’s more about Ipswich Town, our journey, 22 years without being in the Premier League, climbing from League One to the Premier League and now hosting maybe the biggest football club in the world on the live Super Sunday match in front of a worldwide audience. And we do it coming off the back of a really good victory. 

"That’s special to be part of. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to be here. This season is for days like this."

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He continued: “We feel like the team’s improving, individuals are improving and that we’re learning lessons and managing to put them into place. Of course it’s easy to say that after you’ve just won the last game. But I think I can look at the large majority of our squad and say that are in a better place now than they were in the middle of August, both those who are starting every week and the boys who aren't playing as much. I see it day-in, day-out in training. 

“If you look at the last three games we could easily have won all three, to be fair. Certainly, if you take Leicester and Brentford, we feel like we should have had four points across those two games (instead of one). 

“The margins to us winning on a more regular basis are getting closer. But you can’t rest. It’s easy to be really positive now because we’ve just won, but we have to back that up. We have to go again and deliver another good performance.

"We feel like if we impose our game we can be a tough opponent for anyone, especially at home. We have to match that with a level of humility because we know that if we don’t execute our details just right, if our intensity drops just a bit, then Man United have the quality to hurt us or any other team in the league. 

“It’s about having the right mix of humility and confidence.  

“As I’ve said so many times, we’ve worked so hard to get games like this so there’s no point going out and playing with fear or restraint. We’ve earned the right to be here and we want to go out and showcase the best of ourselves. We know the crowd have a massive part to play in that. I’m sure everyone will turn up on Sunday and play their part."