McCarthy Frustrated By Failure to Take Chances
Saturday, 8th Apr 2017 18:14

Boss Mick McCarthy was frustrated that his side was unable to take their chances during their 3-1 defeat at Fulham. Town spurned a number of opportunities to get themselves back into the game at 2-0 and then conceded the Cottagers third which all but sealed the home side’s victory.

“It’s frustrating really because we’ve had good chances and certainly in the second half we had three great chances before they scored,” McCarthy said.

“Unfortunately, probably the tale of our season, we didn’t score them and we let one in the other end.”

Was the difference between the teams the ability to take chances? “I’d say so, a big part of it anyway. They didn’t defend particularly well either.

“Their keeper [Marcus Bettinelli], I’m sure Slavisa thinks it was a good decision to change him because of the performance they got out of him.”

He added: “We had our chances in the first half and we had our chances in the second half.”

David McGoldrick’s chance just before the break which hit the post was a key moment, McCarthy admitted.

“Quite clearly we would have all felt better and the players certainly would [coming in at the break],” he said.

“And the reality is that we should have scored after half-time because we did have good chances. But their keeper’s made good saves and we’ve not managed to score.”

McCarthy switched the Blues to 4-4-2 at half-time, bringing Tom Lawrence on for defender Tommy Smith, and felt it gave his side momentum or down to Fulham taking their foot off the gas given their lead.

“It did [give us momentum], I’ll have a look at it, whether [it was that] they gave the ball away, they thought they were comfortable and we pressed it,” he added.

“I didn’t think we were bad in the first half, we just gave away two really soft goals, certainly the second one. But good finishes from them. I changed it, it needed to be changed to get something out of the game.”

He added: “They put Chris Martin in so they’d got an option to knock the ball long. They did and I don’t think we dealt with that particularly well. He’s a threat up there, he can win balls and keep it up there. I guess Slav got his tactics right today.

“They’re a good team. There are two choices, you either try and stop them playing and push up on top of them, which we did. And they didn’t pass through us from the back.

“What they did was put it up to Martin and he knocked it down to midfield and they got their chances from that.”

McCarthy stuck with the same side which beat Wigan on Tuesday, aside from Tommy Smith replacing the injured Steven Taylor, but says they came up against much stiffer opposition.

“They were a much different, much better team, a harder venue to play at. As has been proved all season for them, they’re a really good side.

“That’s the dilemma, change that winning team and we lose and it’s ‘Why did you change it?’.

“Don’t change a winning a team and it’s ‘Should we have rested someone?’. I don’t think we looked tired, not at all, and I thought Didzy and Freddie were a constant threat yet again.

“I think you’ve seen me now for almost five years and if we’ve played well and had a good result it’s very rare [that I change it]. It’s hard to justify it. They weren’t tired, they weren’t tired at all. They’ve taken their chances and we haven’t in the end.”

One positive was the return of Tom Lawrence following his groin injury: “It’s great to have him back, you could see he’s a threat with his delivery.

“Although even he got booed when he put one out with his first freekick but the second was on the button and Berra scores. Unfortunately it was a little bit too late.”

The large Town following again made their frustrations with McCarthy and owner Marcus Evans clear during the second half. How did their chanting make him feel on the touchline? “It made me think I’m going to go home and have a beer.”

Slavisa Jokanovic was pleased with his side's display, although admitted they didn't have it all their own way.

“Today we showed the character and our ambition and played with confidence. We scored three goals and we could have scored some more goals," he said.

"To be honest we were in some kind of trouble during the game but this time we knew better how to survive these moments.

“We should have finished the game with a clean sheet, we were so close, at the end they scored the goal and I’m not sure if the situation was legal or illegal. But generally I am happy.

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Surco72 added 10:27 - Apr 9

Blues1.. How many football league clubs have gone out of business so the fans have no club to support ? If you cannot see that this is nothing more than a tax option to Evans you are mistaken . He has advertising everywhere , shirts , stadium that could be coming from another investor , wages are comparitive to the players leaving each year Lawrence for Frazer etc so the fees received shouldn't be counted for that . The trouble is MM has filled the squad with bang average players taking wages with little input into the side due to injuries or ability but it doesn't matter as they are bloody good blokes

tallguy6767 added 12:17 - Apr 9 It's obvious the w*nker is hanging around just to piss the fans off even further! The longer the prat hangs around the less the renewals. F.O.M.M !!!!!!
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cat added 12:23 - Apr 9

Never in the 41 years I have followed ITFC have I got to the point where our results have very little interest to me. I guess along with the club MM has well and truly knocked the stuffing out.
It's now over to ME, as a major overhaul is now needed.
1 Sack MM
2 Select a manager who is on the same plain as our traditions i.e, pass and move and entertaining football
3 Come out and let the fans know what his intentions are, certainly over the next two seasons.
4 invest in the squad, from yesterday's squad I would say 6 are up to it - Bart, Spense, Kenlock.
Huw, Lawrence and Ward, so these need to be secured, although I don't see Lawrence being here, the maybes - Dids, Sears and Smith. The rest imo can do one.
5 Give the youth a chance.
If ME does the above, I believe we can move forward with him, if not, then ME is going to be the next target for fans like myself, who sole target at the moment is MM. There are many on here who have already reach that point, and I GET THAT! but everyone has and is entitled to there owe opinions.

MicksZzzTactics added 13:39 - Apr 9

@surco72 (regarding @Blues1 post )

Exactly Surco! And as I've personally tried to explain several times in recent months, in some detail although still fairly superficially .... well since I'm NO Tax expert by trade myself! :-) lol. (However I did spent several years of my early post-collegiate youth working in a shall we say a "fine looking" brokerage company which had several of them (i.e. super tax experts and the like), and as I gradually discovered simply also "happened to be" a very shady-like corporate company themselves!, very eagerly exploiting all sorts of loop holes in the then in effect various national laws & regulations etc. around the globe, with tax deductibility & tax e"evasiveness" just being 1 of them! All to my utmost personal disapproval I might add!) ..... and thus touched upon most recently on page 3 of this here TWTD article:

http://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich-town-news/31423/mccarthy-and-evans-both-want-town-

and as I state in that post (just as I have in previous ones whenever this by some here imho very ignorant & silly -- like to some degree @Blues1 too apparently -- "ME simply must have have lost money since practically Day 1 here ... ehhhhm since we (ITFC) keep lossing money"?! ' subject comes up) , when in reality there is no bloody way in Hellll that ME personally or ME's immaculate The 'Marcus Evans Group' EFFECTIVELY losses and have lost £ 5-6 or whatever annually as it usual cost just to cover the so called "pre tax operating loss of ITFC", giving **of course** the for loooong wonderful "nicety" of the fairly huge 'CORPORATE TAX-DEDUCTIBILITY' of both ITFC's original purchased debt (£ 32 mill back in 2007) and its since then "annual operating loss" .... which of course also when accumulated have now raised the total debt held by alleged crooked Marvelous Marcus & his Alleged Hoodlums Incorporated :-) to be in the region of around £ 70 mill last I heard ... at least this was the happy case BEFORE April 1st, 2017 i.e. with these mentioned in the linked-to article new mucho mucho stricter UK Tax Laws targeting **especially** the exploits of Corporate Groups!!! only having its negative meant effect (and just how much exactly these new tax laws really deteriorates the "FUN" of having a corporate company like ME's owing ITFC, is again well not specifically for me to guesstimate) the Fiscal Year of 2017 and here after!

MicksZzzTactics added 13:39 - Apr 9

Sam added 13:41 - Apr 9 Yeah, 3 chances!!!! We didn't play badly but were really well beaten by a team with imaginative players. Manager out but the new one needs to get new players in
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Sam added 14:16 - Apr 9 Tallyguy 6767 the reason I went down for you is because you swore. But I totally agree with what you said.
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Sam added 14:21 - Apr 9 Surgery, there is no need whatsoever to say MM was shot. All managers start well and then end up not so good. MM is not playing good tactics at all but his players are horrendous. harsh on Mick.
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surgery added 15:34 - Apr 9 Sam, just for the record please. Remind us if you will, who was it who signed these horrendous players, and who it who continues to play them?
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wayway added 20:19 - Apr 9

Ok, so all you out there who think we would not survive without Evans PLC ask yourselves this. Why is here just prepared to put the 'alleged' 6 million in per year and nothing else. What are his motives? There must be some reason he is still here and it certainly is not a driving ambition to see us in the premier league. For all the rubbish stated about what Derby have spent it is bloody impossible to have any sort of success with kids, loans and 3rd rate cast offs. And don't believe there is no one else out there who would be interested in a club like Ipswich Town because I can't believe that

brittaniaman added 20:39 - Apr 9 By the amount of Fan absentees next season (that is if Dino is still here) Evans will haft to put in more than his 6 million to keep the club afloat,?? So there has to be a Root and Branch clear out of the club in the Summer starting with Dino !!!!!
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IpswichAD added 21:12 - Apr 9

Reading some of these comments does make me wonder how many of you were actually at the game yesterday. I left the game wondering how we lost with the amount of good chances we had; their keeper making several great saves. Also, one has said that MM can't blame us "supporters" as we got behind the team? All I heard were chants of MM out - that doesn't really sound like getting behind the team to me. And also the chants about Marcus Evans - without him and his money saving us, we could quite easily have slipped down a division or two - we are not too big! Just look at the likes of Forest, Leeds, Man City, etc - we haven't been in the third tier for many, many years now. Okay, whether or not I am a fan of MM, let's thank him for saving us from relegation when he took over and get behind the team during games. I'm sure he will decide if and when it is time to move on...

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Dissboyitfc added 21:34 - Apr 9 we have thanked him and he was rewarded very handsomely! He should go now there is nothing else he can do for us! well nothing good anyway!
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BrettenhamBlue added 01:51 - Apr 10

IpswichAD
I wasn't at the game but have become disinterested in our style of football. Bialkowski has been voted as MoM 22 times this season by TWTD readers, and the other major supporters group has him down for 24 awards. There isn't even competition for the player of the season award as he's been required to showcase his skills so often. Given that he was also player of the season last year, it doesn't show good progress. People don't go to football matches to watch him pull off incredible save after save. Something needs to change.

IpswichT62OldBoy added 16:05 - Apr 10 Please wake me up when he has gone and we have started playing some football again. Until then thank God for Summer and a break from ITFC , something I did not ever expect to say.
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