Boss Mick McCarthy was delighted with his side’s 2-1 victory at Charlton Athletic, particularly given their failure to defeat Bristol City at the weekend.
McCarthy said: "I’m delighted. Having dropped points against Bristol City at home, it was important that we can win away from home and overall I was pleased with our performance.
"It was very much a tale of two halves, we were the dominant side and should have scored more in the first half.”
Despite DJ Campbell missing the target with his first-half spotkick, McCarthy felt the penalty still benefited his team: "The two penalties kind of opened the game up.
"We missed ours but having got it, we were on top and we were playing well and I think it unsettled them.
"Sometimes it gives the team who haven’t conceded a surge of energy, but that didn’t seem to happen, we carried on.
"I thought our goals were good quality goals. DJ persisted having missed [the penalty], it was a great finish, and it was great for Murph, the two centre forwards scoring.
"And they were better in the second half, they’ve put us under pressure, they’ve got two centre forwards, who backed in, flicked it on, held it up and caused us a few problems, but I felt we resisted most of it.”
While Campbell — who has now scored nine goals in 15 games — has grabbed most of the headlines, McCarthy says he has also been pleased with Murphy: "He’s excellent when he plays like that and he’s fired up and when he’s a handful for defenders. They’ve got a nice little partnership going on, so I’m pleased with him.”
The Town boss was also pleased with central defensive pairing Tommy Smith and Luke Chambers: "They’ve been a good partnership, they’re doing really well the pair of them. I’m delighted with them. They were playing against two good players, they had to play well.”
McCarthy had no complaints regarding Charlton’s penalty from Danny Haynes netted for the home side: "Not at all. It looked a penalty from the sidelines and I’ve just seen it on the DVD and I think it was a stonewall penalty.”
Overall, the Blues boss felt that the last two games have been similar from the perspective of the away sides getting something from matches the home teams were expected to win: "They’re 20th in the form league at home, Charlton, and they’re seventh away from home, they were the stats I was given.
"You play more expansively at home, we did on Saturday. We were fairly wide open at times and Bristol City had chances.
"Away from home you’re going to be a bit tighter and you’re going to catch them on the break. It’s not always easy and this was the reverse of our game at home to Bristol City.
"They’ve got us coming here and all the fans are probably thinking ‘Boxing Day, happy days, Ipswich are coming, should be a good win, have a beer and enjoy it’, but it doesn’t happen that way, as we found out against Bristol City and Peterborough.”
Charlton manager Chris Powell felt the match was lost before the break: "We were just beaten by a better team, I’m not going to sit here and make any excuses.
"We were beaten by a team that, in the first 45 anyway, was on the front foot and we were very loose in our responsibilities, in our marking. We were very sluggish.
"There was a response in the second half, as I knew there would be, and Ipswich didn’t have a chance in the second period, but the damage was done.”