Town boss Mick McCarthy believed his side deserved something from their 1-0 defeat at Bristol City with his only complaint with his team the manner in which they conceded Milan Djuric’s 64th minute goal.
Asked whether his side ought to have taken something from the match, which was played in heavy snow and a strong wind, he said: "Yes, I do. We certainly shouldn’t have lost it anyway.
"I think we haven’t had as much of the ball as them but we’ve had as many chances as them, probably more actually, truth be known, but it’s the one that goes in the net that counts.”
He added: "I think my teams are generally well organised and well disciplined, as they were today, but it wasn’t just that, I thought we created chances as well.”
For the decisive goal, Town gave Lloyd Kelly too much time to put in his cross, before Adam Webster was beaten by Djuric and McCarthy felt it should have been defended better.
"Yes, they didn’t get too many crosses in the box,” he reflected. "They got overloaded that side and then I think Adam’s tried to stop him, he should have gone and attacked it and he’s beaten him to it.”
Asked whether he believed Webster might have been fouled, he added: "I thought it was a good goal on their part. I’ve no complaints about it at all.”
At the other end, Town have now gone three games without a goal, although McCarthy felt his team had opportunities: "We’ve created chances there, we’re just not scoring them at the minute.
"There’s not much we can do about that other than keeping going and keeping trying to put it in the net.”
He added: "I’m not bemoaning my luck, somebody’s got to be running and moving in the box and getting on the end of it. We work on that, TC works on that constantly with them, so it’s not just down to luck. Maybe somebody taking a chance.
"Certainly, the last couple [of opportunities], Callum’s header across the box, Jonas struck one across the box, you’ve got to have somebody moving and getting on top of it.”
Is there currently a lack of confidence in front of goal? "Did it look like it? Did anybody fluff their lines in front of goal? Did anybody miss a really good chance? Did anybody look like they panicked. No? Well, there’s your answer.”
Might players not getting in the right positions inside the box be down to a lack of confidence? "I don’t think so, I think we’ve had a really confident display there today but not managed to score and I think we’ve let one in.
"They’ve put the big fella on that cost £1.25 million or something, so he’s got a bit of a pedigree and he’s managed to find the net. That was the difference.”
McCarthy switched back to his three-man backline with Cole Skuse sitting in front of them and Callum Connolly and Grant Ward ahead of the former Bristol City man, which he thought worked well.
"We played Skusey as the central one and played Callum and Wardy as two midfield players just up against them and I thought Wardy played well, to be honest,” he continued.
"I think you could see when they scored how much it meant because I don’t think they thought they were going to score. It didn’t look like they were going to.
"We’ve been well-organised and disciplined and done that side of it well, but I thought we did well as well, I thought we created chances in the game.”
Regarding the less than ideal weather, he added: "Conditions are unusual probably for March, but that’s playing football in England, isn’t it? That’s the way it comes and you never know when the weather’s going to be like that.
"I thought both teams handled it well. My only complaints are that we’ve conceded the goal the way we did. Other than that I think we’ve played well.”
On Thursday, Town revealed striker Joe Garner would miss the rest of the season having suffered a small fracture to his skull in the Sheffield United match.
The 29-year-old had been due to be in the squad on Tuesday, his wife having given birth to their baby earlier in the day, but was eventually left out on medical advice.
"He’s probably got a headache,” McCarthy joked when asked about the former Rangers and Preston man’s condition.
"No, he hasn’t. He’s got a tiny fracture but he had blood in his ear and in his mouth on Tuesday night when he was down to [be on the bench]. Typical Joe, very selfless and willing.
"It was the doctor who pulled him out and on having an x-ray, he’s got a crack [to his skull]. That’s six weeks and in the meantime he’s going to have his shoulder operated on Monday.
"And when that’s better and he can go on crutches, if his knee needs operating on he might have that done as well, so that’s the type of player I’ve got, it’s great.”
Bristol City boss Lee Johnson felt the result was more important than this team’s performance, which he thought improved after the break.
"We played really well tactically in the first half but didn’t have enough intent to make the box and to get in behind, a lot of people were in pockets, good touches, very difficult for Ipswich to play against,” he said.
"But at the same time, dare I say it, on the verge of being boring. The difference between that and the Sheffield Wednesday game [which they won 4-0], every time we stuck five or six passes together, the next one cut the line, the next one either scored a goal or created a chance.
"And it’s a Catch-22 because you want to play football in a certain way. Our distances were too stretched, which dropped the tempo and in the second half we just wanted those to get a bit tighter, play off Milan a little bit more and we did alright.
"It’s a tough game, we needed to win, it was a really big game and sometimes the result is more important than the performance.”
Regarding Djuric’s goal, he added: "It was a great goal, he should have scored before that when the little rebound came off the keeper, but that was a proper, old-fashioned almost like a Duncan Ferguson type goal and the crowd like them. We’ll watch that back a few times, I’m sure.”
Turning to Town and Blues manager McCarthy, he continued: "We had to make sure we were resolute in the circumstances in a very difficult game against a side, by the way, who do very, very well for their resources and what they’ve got.
"I don’t really understand the moans and groans because they’ve got a top manager there.”