Town boss Roy Keane felt the Blues ought to have ended up beating Scunthorpe, despite a dreadful first half display which saw the Iron go in 1-0 up at the break. After Jaime Peters’s equaliser, Jason Scotland was prevented from adding a second by a last ditch Cliff Byrne challenge, Peters had a header cleared off the line by Rob Jones and Darren O’Dea hit the bar.
Keane was thoroughly unimpressed with his team’s first half performance: "We never got going, we were waiting for something to happen and the goal was coming. We couldn’t clear our lines.
"Second half, in terms of the chances, the game should have been dead and buried. We were guilty of missing gilt-edged chances and the madness of it was that we nearly lost it at the end because of a lack of concentration.
"It was a funny old day," he added. "It was a real rollercoaster and in the second half, in terms of the clear-cut chances and the way we broke on them, we should have had the game dead and buried.”
The Blues boss replaced striker Connor Wickham on the half hour, but says there were plenty of others who he could also have subbed: "There were eight or nine players, not just Connor, that I was thinking, ‘when are you going to get going?’.
"You can’t continue that and the goal was no surprise. We were about the make the change anyway and we changed the shape with Luke coming on.
"We changed it again with Jaime coming on at half-time to give us a little bit of spark because there was only going to be one team that was going to win.
"In the second half, we were better, sharper, we were hitting them on the break and we really should have won the game.”
Keane confessed that he probably got his team selection wrong: "Jaime and a lot of other players were unlucky to be left out from the other night, Luke, Colin Healy, Kennedy, these boys did really well. I obviously feel that I didn’t get my own job correct today in terms of the first half.”
Scunthorpe boss Ian Baraclough believed his team deserved all three points: "I’ve seen Ipswich blow teams away this season. Their midfield pair have dominated games and I thought we dominated them. The more I’m talking about it,the more I think that it was two points dropped.
"The lads are in there with their heads down, they’re getting in positions to score and it’s when we stop getting in those positions that I’ll start to panic.
"We created 15 or 16 chances again today and something’s got to change.”
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