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Keane Pleased With Stead - Ipswich Town News

Boss Roy Keane was delighted with the way Jon Stead reacted to Saturday’s harsh red card, netting Town’s second and third goals in the 3-0 victory over QPR.

Keane said: "Jon did really well. Saturday was disappointing for him but you're always going to have disappointments as a footballer.

"You're going to get injured, suspended and lose a bit of form. You have to deal with setbacks but it's about action.

"I said two or three weeks ago that I wanted one of my strikers to step out of the pack Steady's done that but how he didn't end up with a hat-trick I'll never know."

The Blues boss felt there were a lot of positives to take from the victory: "It was a good reaction from Saturday. All the squad contributed and there were plenty of pluses.

"We scored three goals at home and on another day it could have been more. I'm really pleased with all the players.

"Any team can win a football match but the good teams keep winning. We've not won back-to-back games since last May, but we're getting there."

Keane revealed that David Wright was left out after picking up a cut to his foot at Crystal Palace, which required five stitches: "Wrighty wanted to play but the medical staff said it would be a risk and Jaime has played at full-back for us before and he did well.”

QPR boss Paul Hart thought his side’s display in the opening 45 minutes deserved more: "I thought our first half performance warranted a better return than we got.

"We were unfortunate with their first goal, when it took a deflection and looped past the keeper.

"After that I thought we should have had a penalty [when Jay Simpson went to ground on the edge of the area and referee Steve Tanner waved away his protest] and then should have scored after a great cross fell to Adel Taarabt. Goals change games.

"We felt if we could reproduce our performance of the first half we'd be all right but we lost our legs a bit.

"Their second goal came after a slip on the touchline and it's hard to swallow because we're not getting done by great goals. We're the architects of our own downfall.

"We should have been ahead at half-time and felt that if we could replicate our performance of the first half we could get at least a draw."

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