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Knudsen Keen to Learn From Mistakes - Ipswich Town News

Jonas Knudsen has admitted he was at fault for the first goal in Town’s 2-0 home defeat by high-flying Middlesbrough a week ago.

Knudsen said he has been forced to suffer several re-runs of the game’s pivotal moment as Boro, pegged back for long spells by Town’s attacking threat up till then, made the breakthrough within nine minutes of the restart through Uruguayan striker Christian Stuani’s back-post header.

Stuani climbed above Knudsen to get his head to the ball and beat Dean Gerken but the 23-year-old Dane also pointed out that the goal came about because Albert Adomah was allowed too much time and space to cross from the left.

Knudsen said: "It was a decent goal for Middlesbrough but it came from a lot of small mistakes by us.

"The player who crossed the ball was not put under any pressure but I also know — and I have seen this goal replayed many times since last Friday — that I should have cleared the ball.

"This is one of the things we have to look at and learn from. The next time I am in that situation I will try to make sure I deal with it differently.

"The manager is always encouraging me but he will also point out my mistakes. I like that because I know I still have a lot to learn.

"If the manager or one of his staff is critical it’s fine because you can learn from your mistakes. I actually like to hear him talk about what I do wrong because I can take the next steps to stop repeating my errors.

"If they only said ‘You are doing well’ all the time how would I learn? I prefer when they say ‘You can do better with this and that’ and show me what they mean. I am taking small steps all the time with the aim of getting better each time.

"Sometimes after games we will sit down and watch clips from our last game, which makes it easier for them to point out certain things that happened and easier for me to try to make sure it doesn’t happen again. It is perfect for me because I want to keep learning and improving.

"You can find mistakes in every single game and I believe you must make them in order to improve. I am eager to hear what the experienced people have to say and sometimes when we are discussing football I can learn a lot.”

Although disappointed that Town could not make their first-half pressure pay in the form of goals, Knudsen also believed there were several positives for Town to take from the game, their first defeat in seven league outings, as they head for MK Dons and a third successive appearance in front of the Sky Sports cameras tomorrow.

Knudsen added: "It was a tough game but we wanted to win it and we had some good chances to score in the first half, although they did as well. If we had just managed to take one of our chances I believe we could have gone on to win it.

"Everybody in football knows how goals can change games and when Middlesbrough got the first one that is what happened. We can still take a lot from our performance, especially in the first half when we played really well, and in some ways it was a typical Championship game.

"When we won 3-0 at Charlton in our previous game we were solid at the back and stopped Charlton from getting back into the game.

"We were able to score further goals on the counter-attack and that is what Middlesbrough did to us. We lost but we can still be pleased with several aspects of our game.”

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