Norwich City manager David Wagner felt his side deserved their point from the 2-2 draw with Town.

Jonathan Rowe netted twice for the Canaries after Nathan Broadhead had given Town the lead before Wes Burns levelled for the Blues.

“Exciting,” Wagner said when asked what he made of his first East Anglian derby. “I think there was more or less everything in this derby that you’d expect, what you’d like to have - a lot of battles, a lot of energy. The lead changed during the game as well.

“I’m absolutely delighted about the effort and the shift my players put in on the pitch, great togetherness, great working attitude, super fighting spirit and this is the reason why it’s a deserved point, for me.

“Obviously, if you can’t win it, you have to make lose that you don’t lose it and that’s exactly what the players have done.

“We take this point. You’ve seen why Ipswich is so good at home and so good in the season in general. This is their first draw, every other game they’ve won except one and that makes this result a good result for us.”

When told Town manager Kieran McKenna had said he felt his side was considerably the better team, Wagner responded: “For me [the draw] was deserved because of the fighting spirit and the effort that the players brought on the pitch, they dug in, they always believed, they kept going and fighting and closed the yards in between the lines.

“Tactically, it was a very, very good game and, as I said, they are a good side and we take the draw. That is why it was a good draw, for me.”

Wagner was delighted for Rowe regarding his goals, although he felt the 20-year-old didn’t have his best game.

“Two fantastic goals, I’m very pleased for him,” he said. “Was it his best performance today in general? Probably not, but to score two goals in a derby and the kinds of goals which he scored [I’m pleased].

“In general, he is a threat for goals and he can score different types of goals and this makes him very special.

“We do everything to support him because he’s quite young and he has a lot of work and space where he can improve, and we try everything to support him as well as we can so he improves to the player he can be.”

Regarding the incident before the game where Norwich City's joint- majority shareholders Delia Smith and husband Michael Wynn-Jones had their car hit by a beer can and other objects having followed the Town squad through the thousands-strong coach welcome, Wagner was clearly angered.

“I’ve just seen her, luckily she’s OK,” he said. “Unfortunately, there are idiots all over the world.

“I can’t get in my head how I could behave like this when a woman over 80 years old in a car drives to a football match, even if she maybe supports the opponent.

”It makes no sense but unfortunately this happens. Hopefully they will find the people and hopefully they will get a ban for their life.”

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ArnieM added 20:34 - Dec 16 Sutton was being smug … because he knew we were so much better than them and yet we still didn’t beat them. He’s giving us nothing there really. Still a to ss a
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IpswichT62OldBoy added 20:36 - Dec 16 Deluded comment from a manager who's contract expires in a month, which is less time than Liz Normal For Norfolk Truss was Prime Minister. One almost feels sorry for the Club, we have been there.
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Macedonian_Gerrard added 22:11 - Dec 16 nonsense from that clown they were utterly abysmal
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RobsonWark added 23:27 - Dec 16 What game was he watching?
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Europablue added 02:29 - Dec 17 SickParrot, yes and no. Norwich played to the peak of their ability. If you play that game 10 times we'd win it 8 out of 10 times. It was a well-earned point that took a lot of luck and a couple of bad referring decisions to get. They will be delighted about the point. Hopefully, we'll be much less overwhelmed away from home.
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Mariner1974 added 02:58 - Dec 17 The guy's a wordsmith! Can't really say in a Derby when they got a lucky draw, that his team were lucky. He has to try and keep his fans onside and take what positives he can & spin it that spirit and hard work is worthy of a point. Covers over the fact that as a manager he is leagues behind Mckenna, and doesn't know how to implement a style of play to match what we have now

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Saxonblue74 added 07:46 - Dec 17 So they deserved a point because they tried hard and ran their little socks off? That's what you have to do when you're played off the park! Probably realises he was lucky to avoid the heavy defeat which would have been the final nail in his managerial coffin!
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waldenblue7 added 08:23 - Dec 17 Joker
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EatonBlue added 12:14 - Dec 17 In the headline you missed out 'Un' before deserved.
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Cadiar added 17:12 - Dec 17 Blues1 I was surprised by Sutton also. He normally is so ridiculously biased. Warner is deluded and most be over joyed with the undeserved result, stays off his sacking for a couple of weeks. The reality is Narwich will be a bang average lower mid table team come April & we will be in the playoffs at least but hopefully automatically promoted.
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Cadiar added 17:12 - Dec 17 Blues1 I was surprised by Sutton also. He normally is so ridiculously biased. Warner is deluded and most be over joyed with the undeserved result, stays off his sacking for a couple of weeks. The reality is Narwich will be a bang average lower mid table team come April & we will be in the playoffs at least but hopefully automatically promoted.
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EatonBlue added 21:26 - Dec 17 Blues1 - was the last sentence of your first paprgraph a euphamism?
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Karlosfandangal added 11:12 - Dec 20 I don’t think understand I have a couple of work colleagues who are Norwich supporters, we have banter but talk football in general , hope we don’t lose as there is not much they can say about Town at the minute but I don’t throw things at them and shout abuse at them. An 82 year old lady have things thrown at her and about abuse shouted at her is a disgrace would love the club to get rid of these idiots who have brought the focus on Ipswich for the wrong reasons. My son in law said to me as a joke here’s another Ipswich thug and he hates football Ed Sheaen showed how it should be done with the video with Delia and at Watford with Elton that puts us in a good light

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