{"id":586277,"date":"2026-04-06T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/586277\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:36:09","slug":"ipswich-merited-contentious-birmingham-win-mckenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/586277\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich merited contentious Birmingham win – McKenna"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

“The half-time whistle came at the wrong time because we looked like we were going to score on every attack.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

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“We had to try and be resilient and manage the game well, and we mostly did that.”<\/p>\n

McKenna said he wouldn’t give Birmingham’s controversial disallowed goal a “second thought”.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

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