Town boss Mick McCarthy felt his side did enough to take something from their 1-0 defeat at Reading, but failed to take their chances or make the most of dangerous positions.
"I thought our performance was good, especially the second half,” McCarthy said. "I don’t think we did enough with the ball in the first half.
"I think we did enough to get something out of the game, but they had Johnny on the spot, who has scored and we didn’t.
"We didn’t score, fairly simple. We got ourselves in good positions as well but didn’t manage to work the keeper, which is disappointing. We didn’t score that’s the upshot of it, unfortunately.”
The Town boss wasn’t too harsh on striker David McGoldrick for his error which led to Reading midfielder Jake Taylor’s winning goal.
"He’s a fabulous striker, we should have come out in a line, we didn’t.” he said. "He was the one that was seeing the overload at the far side and he’s just got done with the run.
"Well, he didn’t get done by the run because he got the ball. I think he’s trying to head it to Gerks. If he was a defender he would probably have just put his foot through it and boot it out for a corner kick.
"I’m not blaming him because he does his defensive work. I’ll forgive Didzy that because he’s terrific.”
The 26-year-old was making his first start following his lengthy absence with a knee injury and McCarthy believes he was inevitably not quite at his sharpest.
"Overall, he worked very hard as he always does," he added. "I think he’s had some good bits. I think he might have got away from one or two of their defenders when he’s in his pomp and not still coming back.
"He’s been out for six months, hasn’t had much football. He did well, but maybe that sharpness isn’t there. Fine margins, but we knew that and he’s getting there.”
McCarthy was pleased with winger Paul Anderson, who replaced Elliott Hewitt at half-time, having missed Town’s first two matches with a hamstring injury: "He would have started from the start of the season because he’s been excellent in pre-season, and I think he took his form into the second half because I thought he played well.”
The Blues manager also had praise for Reading defender Shaun Cummings for diverting Tyrone Mings’s goal bound header onto the bar in injury time.
"It was great defending, wasn’t it?” he said. "Fabulous defending. There’s nothing Tyrone can do except go up and head it. It was a great header.
"Their defender had moved from the near post to the far post and has stopped it going in. Otherwise we’ve got a point.”
Reading boss Nigel Adkins was delighted to win what he felt was a hard-fought match: "It’s a pleasing game, a tough, tough Championship fixture.
"Today, we’ve come up on the right end of a scoreline. As we all know, it could so easily have gone to them, Shaun Cummings has headed one onto the bar at the end.”