Roy Keane refused to blame the officials for Ipswich's latest defeat

All the talk on Sky Sports after the game was over Andy D'Urso's refusal to give a penalty just before Craig Beattie's second but Keane looked further into the game itself and blamed themselves for defeat.

"I'm not blaming the officials for the defeat," Keane told the official Ipswich web site

"We were 1-0 up, had clear cut chances to make it two but we can't seem to score two or three goals in a game.

"We should have killed the game off but then we let in a goal from another set-piece, and gave away another one when we tried to dribble the ball away from the goalline.

"We are not doing the basics right and if you give away goals and can't score them at the other end, you are not going to go anywhere.

“No excuses. We’ve got to do better.

“We’ve got no-one to blame but ourselves, in terms of our defending, the chances we missed and not dealing with the setback of their first goal.

“Their first goal was soft and the second was comical, but then I’m pretty sure I had the same conversation last week (after the defeat at Norwich).

“It’s like Groundhog Day. We’re doing the same things over and over again and I’m saying the same things over and over again.

“I probably need to receive criticism and eight defeats in 10 games is unacceptable.

“I bought players in the summer and I brought players here on loan.

“The official didn’t cost us the result today.

“Let’s not try to find another excuse for us losing the match.

“It would be easy but it would be wrong.”

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