{"id":422399,"date":"2026-02-12T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422399\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:04:08","slug":"ipswich-town-tudor-mendel-and-somto-boniface-in-fa-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422399\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich Town: Tudor Mendel and Somto Boniface in FA Cup squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Speaking at his pre-match press conference in North Wales, the Blues boss said that versatile attacker Tudor Mendel and left-back Somto Boniface are likely to be part of the 20-man matchday squad.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The duo, who were recruited into the academy from Anderlecht and Chelsea respectively, have been key players in John McGreal&#8217;s high-flying Under-21s PL2 team this season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Somto Boniface will be in the squad,&#8221; said McKenna. &#8220;He&#8217;s been doing really well, is training with us every day at the moment and progressing all the time &#8211; so he&#8217;ll definitely be in the matchday squad.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Tudor Mendeal has been with us as well this week. We&#8217;ll wait and see on a couple of players availability-wise, but it&#8217;s not impossible that he could be involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking at his pre-match press conference in North Wales, the Blues boss said that versatile attacker Tudor Mendel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-422399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}