After the sheer disappointment of that dismal relegation from the Championship last season, it's been a pretty positive start to life in League One for Ipswich Town in the early stages of the current campaign.

With four wins and two draws from their opening six games of the league season, Ipswich sit top of English football's third tier at the end of the first month of the season, and confidence in making it a quick return to the Championship this will be growing.

One man who has been integral to the Tractor Boys' success in the early part of the season is summer signing James Norwood.

Having helped Tranmere Rovers win promotion to the third tier last season, Norwood is now making his own step up to this level, and looks to be right at home in the division, having already been named the PFA League One Player of the Month for August.

So just how good had Norwood been at the start to the season?

Here, we've put the spotlight on his performances so far this season to find out.

Having featured in every league game for Ipswich so far this season, Norwood has certainly been thrown in at the deep end by manager Paul Lambert, and the stats indicate that the striker has adjusted to the step up to this level pretty comfortably.

With five goals in those six games, it does seem as though Norwood has already found his range quickly at this level, and the striker is clearly causing trouble for defenders at this level.

The fact that Norwood has hit the ground running so quickly is surely going to do his confidence the world of good, and if he continues with a shot on target percentage of just over 50% - meaning that he is troubling goalkeepers with the majority of his attempts - then you imagine that his impressive record will continue well into the season.

Something worth noting is that with an average of more than 4 touches per game inside the opposition penalty area, Norwood is certainly backing himself to get into the positions from where he can be most effective, and the fact that defenders seem to be struggling to prevent him from being found in those sort of areas has to be a concern for those teams about to come up against the Tractor Boys.

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Interestingly, however, with Norwood registering more than six expected goals, it does seem as though the striker is missing some chances that he should be putting away, despite his impressive start to the season.

Even so, with Norwood also providing two assists to go alongside his handful of goals in the early part to the season, the striker's all-round importance to this Ipswich side is pretty clear for all to see, with the 29-year-old both scoring goals, and creating them.

While there may have been questions about Norwood's capability of stepping up to League One this season, and to lead the line of one of those among the favourites for promotion from this level no less, the striker's stats in the early part of the campaign show that any of those concerns will have been quickly put to bed.

Indeed, with a start like this, Norwood is already looking like one of the League One signings of the summer.