Aston Villa boss Unai Emery felt his side’s 2-2 draw with the Blues at Portman Road was a fair result.

Liam Delap gave Town the lead before the visitors turned the game around before half-time via goals from Morgan Rogers and Ollie Watkins, before Delap secured a deserved point for the Blues with his second of the game and third of the season.

“The result is fair and we are in a process as a team working out how we can build strongly our tactics and mentality with some new players getting progressively better,” the Spaniard said.

“More or less, my thoughts are that one match like, after the first half, we came back the result and controlled the match like we planned.

“When teams play at home they are pushing and more or less demanding more from us, focus and tactically defensively and offensively. We need to control the game again like we didn’t do in the second half.

“The result was fair and we could have even lost the match in the end. I am accepting the point, but in the way I want to raise our level and demands, I accept it in our process.”

Emery’s side are fifth in the Premier League and would have gone level on points with leaders Liverpool had they won today.

“Overall, we have 13 points, but today we were as well optimistic about the possibility to get to Liverpool with 15 points.

“We can accept how difficult this league is and playing away, playing against a team like Ipswich who are excited and have a good structure tactically.

“They are playing with confidence and this is the difficulty we faced today in 90 minutes. In the first half we played even better than I had planned to stop their game plan and their capacity to push us.

“In the second half they played like I thought they would. Of course, in this moment we needed to be stronger than we were.”

"For example, we conceded 10 corners and how is the question. We didn’t control the ball and our positioning to stop them to get to our box. They didn’t score through corners, but it showed we didn’t have control."

Blues skipper Sam Morsy was adjudged to have made two fouls in the second half having already been booked but referee Stuart Attwell opted not to show a second yellow card and then a red.

But Emery had little interest in arguing the case: “I think here in England we have very good referees.

“Of course, it’s maybe tight and at the limit to [be shown] a yellow card, but I accepted it.”

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FromReuserWithLove added 20:07 - Sep 29 We were so bloody excited out there.
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Tractorboy58 added 20:07 - Sep 29 Fair comments
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WestSussexBlue added 20:23 - Sep 29 Fair comments indeed. Refreshing not to hear a manager bleat on about the injustice and to be fair, Sam was lucky not to see red.
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FreddySteady added 20:32 - Sep 29 Sam was v lucky. Very fair comments from Emery.
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PinstripeBlue added 21:05 - Sep 29 I like this review, no whingeing and whingeing from a very good team and manager.
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Daniel72 added 21:41 - Sep 29 He seems like a very decent man... good summary... and I totally get the Ray Reardon similarity.... I must be old!
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scants_itfc_88 added 10:23 - Sep 30 Very fair. I actually think we deserved to win but gifted them goals, which we need to stop. But we created a lot of decent chances. Sam was lucky on one hand but the ref had no idea what was a yellow and what wasnt in that game. He may have realised the first one wasnt a yellow and he didnt book Rogers for persisitent fouling so let him off
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Europablue added 11:06 - Sep 30 scants_itfc_88 It was very frustrating that again we couldn't hold on to the lead. It was a poor clearance from Greaves, I really don't understand what was going through his head, there was absolutely no pass on in that direction. They still had a lot to do and they finished very well, but in the Premier League, you expect that kind of mistake to be punished. For their second goal, it was an incredible cross and a very smart finish, but you have to wonder, why did we have two men on Watkins, yet neither of them man-marked him? People get upset that second yellows aren't given for the same things as first yellows, but first yellows are always too soft and second yellows are too lenient, I think it all balances up, but Morsy will be suspended soon. I was very happy that we didn't get Philogene. I just don't like his character. I'm embarrassed for them to have such a player play acting and looking to the ref to give him fouls all the time. He is a very talented player, but I was actually more worried about not getting Greaves when the double transfer fell through. Emery has done a very good job. Even though Villa didn't play that well, they could have easily come away with 3 points. This time we scored against the run off play for our early first goal.

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Jesney_Havoc added 13:52 - Sep 30 Villa were on the bones of their arse at the end and lucky to get a draw. We won’t finish in the bottom three if we work like that all season.
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Flamencaman added 13:55 - Sep 30 Clarke looks head & shoulders above philligene, Sam will be on the watch list from now on
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Europablue added 14:38 - Sep 30 Flamencaman When we were in for Philogene, I did think it would have been better if we went in for Clarke, but I assumed that he wouldn't have been available for us.
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blues1 added 15:13 - Sep 30 Europablue. Greaves wasn't trying to pass the ball, he was clearing it bit got his contact wrong. A mistake yes, bit 1st one hes made since being here.
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ipswichone added 15:15 - Sep 30 Firstly would like to say emery is a gentleman,as not many managers are honest in there summing up of a game. Leif Davis seems to be gelling with Clarke,with some lovely one ,two down the wing.omari is good at threading balls to delap,through the eye of a needle.improvements all over the team.yes greaves made one mistake,but overall still had a good game.this is the premier league,and any mistake can be costly

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ipswichboi added 16:48 - Sep 30 Agreed Blues1
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