Town boss Mick McCarthy was delighted to see his side get back to winning ways with a 2-0 home victory over Millwall.
"It was a very good win against a good team,” he said. "We got away with one that hit the crossbar. I think they're a good team.
"Somebody asked me why we started slowly, but I didn’t think we did, I thought they were good.
"But we grew into the game and when we got the goal I thought in the second half we were by far the better team.”
McCarthy felt David McGoldrick’s opening goal in first-half injury time couldn’t have come at a better moment.
"I keep saying I’m not so sure there’s ever a bad time to score, but it certainly changed the dynamic of the dressing room,” he said.
"I wasn’t unhappy with the way were going about it but I was a lot happier when we went in.
"Ollie would have been having conceded because they were the better team in the first half, certainly for the first half hour.”
He added: "I wouldn’t say I was happy [to sit back in the first half] but because their two full-backs rampage forward there’s always room to catch them on the break.
"We trained accordingly this week and we actually did catch them on the break because they were having a corner and we’ve speared them from their corner kick.
"If they’re very attack-minded, which Ollie’s teams are, they can leave themselves a bit bare at the back but nevertheless it was still a very good, well-worked goal.”
The Blues boss was pleased with Daryl Murphy’s second just after the hour, having been less than impressed with Town’s set pieces up to then.
"I was livid at half-time about our corner kicks because if you keep chipping them into the keeper’s hands you can’t score from them,” he continued.
"And actually, it wasn’t a great corner kick, but it didn’t go in the keeper’s hands and strangely enough we scored off it, somebody got a header on it.
"I was none-too-pleased with our freekick and corner kick delivery, the keeper kept catching them. That proves it, doesn’t it? If it doesn’t go in the keeper’s hands you can score.”
Neither McGoldrick nor Tyrone Mings showed any signs of sulking having been denied Premier League moves on deadline day, McCarthy felt.
"Tyrone was different class,” he said. "I’d had a nip at his ears about him playing safe because he was, but he wasn’t safe today, was he? He was rampaging up and down.
"Their full-backs are particularly good at doing that and I said to ours that I wanted them to be better than theirs and I thought Tyrone was the pick of the bunch. His back had stiffened up, we’ll see how he is. Hopefully he’s OK.
"[David McGoldrick was] another one that played properly despite the disappointment. I keep being asked ‘How is he?’. I keep saying ‘He’s great, he’s fine, he’s trained really well’ and that proved it today, he was excellent again.”
McCarthy admitted it was difficult leaving out Tommy Smith - "very much so” - and also Luke Hyam: "That was one of the hardest decisions leaving him out because he’s been a stalwart in the team, but he took it in the right way and he was excellent when he came on.”
Millwall manager Ian Holloway admitted that Town deserved to win the match and was disappointed with his team’s second half performance.
"We weren’t as good as Ipswich today,” he said. "At the end of the day it didn’t look like our team, did it? You’ve got to give credit to Mick’s team, how difficult it is to break them down.”
Holloway revealed that he had only six subs on the bench as keeper Tom King was inadvertently missed off the official teamsheet with referee Carl Berry refusing to allow his late addition to the list, much to the Lions’ boss’s annoyance.
He added that his squad had arrived 15 minutes late at the game having travelled from their hotel 20 miles away as his team-talk had overrun.