Ipswich Town boss Kieran McKenna felt his side deserved to beat Birmingham City 2-1 at Portman Road, even though Blues had an equaliser controversially disallowed.
The officials wrongly ruled the ball crossed the by-line before it went in off Dara O’Shea, but McKenna preferred to focus on Ipswich’s attacking play.
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He told BBC Radio Suffolk: “I think first half, we deserved to be ahead for sure. I thought we were outstanding and we were good value to get a couple of goals.
“The half-time whistle came at the wrong time because we looked like we were going to score on every attack.
“The second half was really difficult and you have to give Birmingham credit for that. They’re in a position where they had a swing at it. They’ve got some good players on the bench and brought on good forwards to throw everything at us.
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“We had to try and be resilient and manage the game well, and we mostly did that.”
McKenna said he wouldn’t give Birmingham’s controversial disallowed goal a “second thought”.
He said: “I don’t know whether the ball was in or out. I’ve not seen it back. In the Championship, you’re flipping a coin on those because you don’t know, the referees don’t have the angles, the linesmen don’t have the angles. But I’m not going to give that one a second thought.”
