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Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna talks to Amazon Prime: “Some similarities to the weekend. Nothing in the first half, it was a really low-key game. Both teams compensated for each other and defended well. We started the second half really well, it seemed like we were growing into the game, we knew we had a good influence from the bench. Then, from our point of view, we scored a bad goal.

On Ipswich’s defensive performance: “We felt pretty solid. We wanted to create more energy and intensity to put more pressure on their goal. It’s difficult to be honest that the back five they’ve settled on is really strong. Newcastle found it difficult to penetrate them. “Even at the weekend we didn’t do much that we would have liked, but at the same time we were solid and just didn’t manage to open them up.

On Crystal Palace’s goal: “It was a bad goal. We didn’t hit the ball well enough, it was on the edge of their penalty area and then they countered and we didn’t get our organization right. It’s really a good game from (Jean-Philippe) Mateta, but it came out of nowhere.

“We can do better than we did tonight. I don’t think the performance was at the level of some of our home games. We didn’t play at our best level tonight. We have to come back to that. Then we give ourselves a better chance to win the game.

About the game against Bournemouth on Sunday: “Everyone is so important. After that we have Wolves away and then Newcastle at home before Christmas. It’s that time again on Sunday. There are still many games left and we won’t lose faith anytime soon.