Reo-Coker Determined There Will Be No Repeat - Ipswich Town News

Midfielder Nigel Reo-Coker says he is determined that there will be no repeat of last night’s 5-0 defeat at Crystal Palace. The recent short-term signing felt he and his team-mates gifted the Eagles their five goals at Selhurst Park.

Reo-Coker said: "We all need to take responsibility for that performance and accept that it wasn’t good enough.

"It’s certainly not the level we know we can play at, so we need to ensure we don’t slip to that standard again.

"We weren’t good enough tonight and this is where we draw the line. We are not going to perform like that again and that performance stays here, we are not going to have that feeling in the dressing room after a game again.

"This is up to the players, myself included, to stand up and be counted. We didn’t defend anywhere near well enough tonight and that is down to the players, no one else.

"It was schoolboy defending. I have made it very clear in the dressing room that this will never happen again. They didn’t have to work hard at all to get the goals, we gifted them five through lazy defending and no will-to-win.

"We should all be embarrassed about it. You don’t concede three penalties in a game, not at this level.”

He says the squad need to put in a far better display against Burnley in Mick McCarthy's first home game in charge at the weekend: "We’ve got a big game on Saturday and we need to make sure we bounce back with a good performance.”

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