Manager Mick McCarthy was delighted with his side’s 3-0 home victory over Leeds but admitted that the visitors were the better side until Tom Lees’s red card just after the half hour.
McCarthy said: "I’m pleased because it’s the first time I can remember that we’ve actually got away with an ordinary performance because it was by us. Certainly for 30 minutes Leeds were better than us.
"But I remember going to Leeds and playing well and coming away having been beaten. And I remember going to Bristol City and playing really well and being beaten, and I remember going to Nottingham Forest and having two sent off and we should have had something.
"It’s our turn today, we had a bit of good fortune. The red card changed the game, I don’t think there can be any argument about the red card, it was a sending off in my view. It changed the game and we were the beneficiaries of a decision.”
The Blues boss was pleased with his side’s workrate: "When you’re under the cosh, and we were, I guess there would have been a time, even since I’ve been here, when we would have capitulated, we did it a couple of times.
"But it doesn’t happen now. We stuck at it, made saves, made blocks. All right, they may have been misses by them, but nevertheless we stuck at it and kept a clean sheet until we got the opportunity to score.”
Leeds boss Neil Warnock felt his team should have won comfortably but had no complaints about the sending off: "It’s difficult doing a press conference when you think you should have won 4-0 or 5-0 and you’ve been beaten by three. It’s a strange situation you find yourself in.
"But what can you say? We’ve got one lad who has let everybody down, let me down, the team, all the travelling we’ve had, all the fans that have come down. One stupid moment.
"I don’t know what else you can say really, it was just ridiculous. We were dominating the game, I’ve never been to Ipswich and dominated a game as much in my life.
"Even with 10 men we’ve never had so many chances down here. We had 15 clear chances. Two of the best ones cleared off the line by Michael Brown and Luke Varney. If I was Mick I’d fill in a lottery ticket tonight.”