Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola felt “everything was really good” about his team’s display as they blew Town away 6-0 at Portman Road.
The Blues held their own for the first 27 minutes but after City scored twice in three minutes, Town were very much second best to the Premier League champions, whose recent form had been stuttering at best.
"Everything was really good. We were so aggressive and with the ball we were quicker, faster, wiser in the decisions we had to take,” he said.
"The most important thing today is the result for obvious reasons but also the fact that they realise what we were.
"We realised that when we do this, OK we can compete, and be a team like we enjoy doing what we like to do.
"Hopefully the players can feel it. We talked a lot recently about what we missed. Especially we have had a lot players not here.”
The Spaniard, whose team are up to fourth, had praise for centre-half Ruben Dias, who returned to the team, Phil Foden, who netted twice to take his recent tally to five goals in his last three Premier League games, six in his last six in the top flight and his career total to 100, and Kevin De Bruyne.
"Having Ruben in the team is massive,” he said. "Phil has not been there the first two or three months. When he’s smiling every day, every game is two or three goals.
"Kevin wasn’t there last season, this season maybe no, but now he’s playing at a level where we know he is an exceptional player that Kevin is.
"Step-by-step, hopefully more players can come back, we can be more consistent and do this sort of performance more often because so far this season we haven’t done it.”
Winger Jeremy Doku was involved in five of the six goals and Guardiola felt the Belgian international was outstanding.
"Today he was brilliant, and I’m really pleased for him,” he added. "Today we played Jeremy there because he was training good and against Salford in the FA Cup he played really good as well.
"Always Jeremy has doubts about his consistency every three days, because of injuries simple as that.
"For the way we play and in the final third, to have a player that can dribble one or two central defenders, the scenario is open and completely different to attack in the final third and today he was brilliant, really good.”