Frustrated Mick McCarthy felt there was no way Town should have been beaten 2-1 by Leeds at Elland Road.
"I am totally and utterly pissed off because we should never have lost the game,” McCarthy said at his post-match press conference.
"I’ve just been looking at [the incident which led to the freekick for the first goal], I don’t know how they managed to give a foul one way or the other there for that, when they gave the foul against Ty. But when he does, Bart should have saved it. That’s the upshot of it.
"Having got back in it, I know their keeper should have saved ours as well, there’s no doubt about that.
"Their second one, we’ve got a great chance in their box and it’s not like us to get done as we did.
"And even then we’ve had the opportunity of the penalty and he’s not struck it with any great conviction, and that’s our leading goalscorer. I think we’ve had the best part of the game, to be honest.”
Town fell to back to back defeats for the first time this season - they are the last Championship side to do so - and McCarthy is disappointed to lose for the second time in four days.
"It’s not a good time, I fully understand that, you don’t have to ask me the question,” he continued. "It’s never good to have back to back defeats.
"The position that we’re in, we could have got back in the top six. We’ve got Brentford on Saturday.
"All the things, we’ve played a day later than them, we’re travelling back, we’ll get back at half-two. We had an opportunity to get back in the top six tonight and we’ve pissed it away unfortunately.”
He says his team selection - Daryl Murphy and Freddie Sears were both left on the bench - wasn’t why the Blues lost.
"Brentford left their centre-forward on the bench last night, funnily enough,” he added. "I’ve no problem with the team changes I made whatsoever.
"I thought that Varney and Wood played well and they’re a real handful. Varns was unlucky with his [early disallowed] header, if he’s offside it’s marginal.
"And the two lads will be fresh for Saturday, they’ll start on Saturday. But that’s not cost us the game by any stretch of the imagination.”
McCarthy tried to sign Billy Sharp, who scored the second goal, on loan in January, the former Sheffield United and Doncaster man turning down the opportunity to join the Blues in order to fight for his place at Leeds.
"He’s a goalscorer,” McCarthy said. "And we’ve got them as well. We’ve got the leading goalscoring and we’ve got Freddie, who has come in and scored. We’ve got Chris Wood, who was one of the leading goalscorers in the league last year.
"If you’d have said at any stage that we’ve got Chris Wood and Varney on the pitch at any time I’ve been here in the two and a half years, I think we would have been delighted with having those two to select.”
Varney is a former Leeds player and will have been desperate to do well against his old club, particularly with their fans giving him a hard time, but McCarthy says that didn’t come into his thinking when selecting his team: "Not at all and I wouldn’t take anybody being in my ear.
"I’m slightly, no I’m very disappointed and offended that you might even think I’d be influenced by a player in my earhole to play. They’ll play if they warrant playing and I thought he did.”
Leeds manager Neil Redfearn thought his team deserved all three points: "It was a great win. It was a tough game, a hard-fought game. A typical Championship encounter. They’re up there for a reason, Ipswich.
"They’re very combative, but they play football. But I thought we were the better side tonight.
"I thought the game was won and lost in midfield and we absolutely dominated that area. Lewis Cook and Alex Mowatt and Luke Murphy were outstanding.”
Redfearn was impressed with striker Sharp’s performance and particularly the way he took his goal: "Brilliant, Sharpy was outstanding again tonight.
"He’s led the line really well, he took his goal outstandingly well, it’s behind him, he’s kept it down and got over it. It was a great strike and he looks a polished striker.”
The Leeds boss confirmed that it was Sharp’s decision not to join the Blues in January: "He didn’t want to go, which is great for Leeds United.”