Boss Mick McCarthy felt his side were worthy of their 3-1 victory over Middlesbrough at Portman Road, despite the visitors having been on top in the opening spell.
McCarthy thought it was a deserved win: "It was, after the first 20 minutes when I thought we were better than us.
"I didn’t see the goal coming from a corner kick though, that disappointed me, but I thought that actually kick-started us. I thought we played well after that and got a deserved equaliser.
"And their keeper made a number of saves. He made one off Dids [David McGoldrick] in the first half, Tunners at the start of the second and a third one from Luke Chambers in the first half.
"Dean Gerken’s not had that much to do considering, so I think it was a deserved victory. But they made us work hard because they can play. They’re a good football team.”
The Town boss was delighted to see his Chambers, his right-back, get on the end of a cross from Aaron Cresswell, his left-back, to put the Blues in front just before the hour mark.
"It’s nice when it works,” he said. "I thought we got better in the first half when we got Luke Chambers further forward. It was a bit alien for him because he’s been playing centre-half for so long.
"Cressy got further forward and we got other players in midfield and it sorted the game out. I’ve been encouraging them all week to take a chance and get in the box.
"I was fuming at half-time because we’d had a corner kick that Chambo headed and none of them were running in at the far post and it would have been a goal for somebody. Chambo got his goal through taking his chance by getting in the box.”
He believes his team has been playing as well as they did today in previous games but without getting results: "I think so. Sometimes managers come up and tell lies and wear rose-coloured spectacles. I don’t think I do that.
"I think I’ve been telling the truth, we’ve been playing well but we’ve lacked the goals. I thought Didsy was magnificent today.
"We had one of the lowest conversion rates, so to get three goals and to make their keeper make three really good saves. Certainly off Tunners, off Luke Chambers in the first half and McGoldrick. We worked the keeper as well, so it’s been good.”
McCarthy had praise for half-time sub Murphy — "excellent” — and two-goal McGoldrick: "Terrific. I’m so delighted we got him.
"To be fair, Marcus supported that one from the start. He came in [initially on loan], we looked after him and he’s been fabulous for us. I’m really delighted, good player.
"I thought he was outstanding today and I think he has been. If you consider his performance at Birmingham two weeks ago, he hasn’t been getting his goals but the keepers have been making unbelievable saves from him and it looked like it might be the same today.
"He puts a real shift in as well, he drops in, you can link up off him, he’ll run the channels for you. I think he’s a proper player and I’m really pleased that we’ve got him, I think we’re lucky that we’ve got him.”
McCarthy was pleased with keeper Dean Gerken, who was making his home debut, and who he said had stitches at half-time: "He had a nasty cut on his knee, about a one-inch slice, it was just like he’d fallen on a blade.
"I don’t think he has but it was a deep cut and he had it stitched before he went back out for the second half. I’ve been pleased with him, he’s been great Deano. He just went for a ball and dived.”
Middlesbrough boss and one-time Town skipper and coach Tony Mowbray admitted the Blues were worth the three points: "I thought for 20 minutes we played some pretty decent football. We got ourselves in front deservedly.
"I think Ipswich are a team that do the basics of the game pretty well. They close down, they play it forward, they ask questions of you defensively and I think we fell a bit short defensively today.
"I have to say over the 90 minutes that Ipswich probably deserved their victory because of their honesty and hard work.”
He says he was expecting Town to get in a lot of crosses: "The Prozone statistics came out last week and Ipswich are the number one, top of the table for putting the ball in the opposition box.
"We knew that, there were no surprises, no secrets, they deliver it forwards and ultimately we didn’t deal well enough with that.”