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Nsiala: Summed-Up Our Season - Ipswich Town News

Central defender Toto Nsiala felt Saturday’s 2-0 home defeat to Hull City summed-up the Blues’ miserable season.

Town dominated possession - 62 per cent to 38 - and had more shots on target than the Tigers but it was the visitors who ended the game ahead on the only statistic that ultimately matters, extending the Blues' winless run to 12 games.

They remain 13 points plus goal difference from safety with only seven games left.

"The game summed-up our season,” Nsiala admitted. "They had three shots on target, we had six. Two of theirs went in and three of ours were blocked on the line.

"It feels like nothing is dropping for us and we are conceding as well.
That is what it has been like most games.

"We will brush ourselves down and go again. Honestly, I have never seen anything like this the way everyone keeps going, looking to put smiles on people’s faces.”

Asked whether the only luck Town have had lately is bad luck, the Congo DRC international concurred: "That’s exactly what it is. It is what it is but we keep going.”

The summer signing from Shrewsbury praised the Portman Road atmosphere: "It thought it was brilliant for a team where we are. I don’t understand how it is possible with the support we get when we lose. They are still positive. I really appreciate the support.

"Being involved is good but I’m not enjoying it. I don't enjoy when we come off the pitch and we have been beaten or drawn when we should have won.”

Questioned on whether he’d now like the season to be over so he and his team-mates can get on with the next one, almost certainly in League One, he added: "No, not really. You would think that the lads want this over and done with and go into next season but they are not.

"Every Friday everyone is up for it, they want to play games, they want to do well and want to win and it kills us.

"It may be a weird thing to say but we don't want to season to end, we want to win games.”

The centre-half, who has been in and out of the side since Paul Lambert took charge, says he fully intends to be at Portman Road for 2019/20: "Whatever happens I will be here next season.”

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