Top scorer Tom Lawrence says the Blues can't perform as they did during Saturday's smash-and-grab 1-1 draw at Barnsley when they take on his former loan club Cardiff City away next weekend.
The on-loan Leicester man, who spent the second half of last season on loan with the Bluebirds, making 11 starts and three sub appearances without scoring, grabbed what was an undeserved point at Oakwell with a goal deep into injury time.
Town, who remain 16th but now only seven points off the relegation zone, have drawn their last six, one off a club record of seven successive stalemates established in November and December 1990.
The Blues, who have won just one of their last 12 in all competitions but are undefeated in eight, have drawn 15 in the Championship so far this season - there are nine games left - with the highest ever the 20 amassed in 2009/10 under Roy Keane.
"I think we’ve got to go there and show how good we are,” Lawrence told Ipswich Player HD looking ahead to the trip to the Cardiff City Stadium. "We can’t perform like that again, and we want the win. We’ll have a rest day [on Sunday] then we’ll be working hard all week.”
Reflecting on the Barnsley game, he said: "We weren’t at our best but we’ll take the point. We got one late on, it was a good way to finish but it wasn’t the performance we wanted.
"I think in the first half we were in the game massively. We conceded a soft goal and then were kind of on the back foot. All credit to the lads, we kept battling and we got the point in the end.”
He added: "All these lads are together and that showed today. It’s a good point at the end of the day.”
The 23-year-old Wales international said manager Mick McCarthy wasn’t pleased with his side’s display.
"He’s not too happy with the performance,” he continued. "We were nowhere near our best, so we’ll take the point.
"When we played Reading and they got a draw out of us I thought we got robbed there, so I think we’ve robbed one here but we’ll take it.
"I think we’ve been due a bit of luck over the last few weeks and now we just need to get the win before the international break.”
Lawrence said his 11th goal for the Blues was probably his simplest: "It was a great ball for me [from Brett Pitman], hopefully he can do a few more of them for me.
"I just ran off the player [Adam Hammill], it’s come through and I slotted it home nicely. It was probably my easiest one here yet. I’ll take them tap-ins all day!”
Town will be without Emyr Huws when they travel to face Cardiff, the midfielder's his parent club.
Barnsley goalscorer Marley Watkins was deflated after his team let the lead he had established in the 58th minute slip in the final moments.
"It feels like a loss, to be honest,” he admitted. "I thought we dominated the game, were the better team.
"I just think we’ve got to kill them off when we got the chances, but we didn’t do that and we got punished. If there’s one goal in it anything can happen and that’s what happened today.”
Looking back on his goal, his eighth of the season the 26-year-old added: "I was happy with the goal but just gutted for the boys because we played well, we should have won the game and we haven’t. It’s a kick in the teeth, we’ve just got to go again next Saturday.
"It was just an inside run, it was a great ball by Matty James, who has been quality since he’s come in.
"I just had to tense up to hold them off and it was a good finish, so happy days. But a bad result, so a bit gutted.”
Watkins was the subject of a £1 million Town offer last August - with interest reported again during the January transfer window - and Blues boss McCarthy didn’t rule out a further move for the Wales-born midfielder or striker, who is out of contract in the summer, when asked last week.
Quizzed on whether he knew much about Town’s interest in the summer window, Watkins said: "No, I just crack on. Once the window closed, and in the window, I just focused on Barnsley, whatever happens happens.
"I’m a Barnsley player so that’s what I focus on, it would be disrespectful not to focus on that.”
Did the interest from Town give him additional motivation on Saturday? "No, you try and give your all every game regardless. It’s just coincidence I’ve scored against the team that was interested in me.”
But he admits that as a player it’s flattering to hear that other clubs are interested in you: "Yes, definitely, you want to play at the highest possible level, so whatever route that is you’ve got to do it.
"But at the end of the day we’re higher than Ipswich and we did have a chance of the play-offs, now it’s really an outside chance. But you just want to play at the highest possible level, any player.”
Meanwhile, the Blues' U23s are in action against Nottingham Forest at Alfreton Town’s Impact Arena this evening (KO 7pm).