EFL Championship: Kieran Mckenna Taking Positives After Ipswich Miss Chance To Go On Top

Kieran McKenna was happy to draw on the positives and praised Ipswich바카라�s focus even though they missed out on the chance to go top of the Sky Bet Championship following a stalemate at home to Watford. (More Football News)

Town were eager to bounce back from Saturday바카라�s 1-0 loss at bitter foes Norwich and had watched promotion rivals Leicester and Leeds drop points on Tuesday.

It meant victory for Ipswich would have sent them to the summit but a dominant first-half failed to bring a crucial opener with Nathan Broadhead firing against the inside of the post after 36 minutes before Daniel Bachmann denied Kieffer Moore바카라�s flying header just before the break.

While home substitute Ali Al-Hamadi had a late effort deflected wide, Ipswich struggled to fashion chances in the second period and almost lost in stoppage-time when Edo Kayembe바카라�s clearance from inside his own half nearly caught out Vaclav Hladky.

McKenna바카라�s side instead had to settle for a point, which at least moved them back above Leeds with four matches to go and Middlesbrough the next visitors to Portman Road on Saturday.

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바카라�We take the positives from the performance. I thought you could see in our performance in the first half, we played with no tension, no worries."

바카라�I thought it was a really good performance and it didn바카라�t look like it was the 41st game or the 14th game. We just played as us and that바카라�s what we wanted to do."

바카라�Our focus is just on the next game. Every game is really hard-fought, every point is hard won and we바카라�ve had to fight really hard to win one tonight."

바카라�We know it바카라�ll take a hell of an effort and a hell of a performance to get anything on Saturday as well, so that is where our focus is."

바카라�Not on anyone else or the table, it is just on trying to get ready for the next game and it certainly takes that in this division and this group have done that really well.바카라�

Tom Cleverley expressed his pride after he watched Watford extend their unbeaten run to five games under his short managerial tenure.

The Hornets have now claimed draws with Leeds, West Brom and Ipswich since Cleverley was appointed interim boss on March 9 and targeted three points from this weekend바카라�s trip to Southampton.

Cleverley added: 바카라�I바카라�m incredibly proud of the group.

바카라�Three clean sheets in five and that바카라�s a solid foundation moving forward."

바카라�We바카라�re setting small markers down with the draw against Leeds, the draw away at West Brom and now the draw away at Ipswich."

바카라�Now we want to put one big marker down with a win away at Southampton on Saturday and that is the challenge we face.바카라�

On Kayembe바카라�s 95th-minute lobbed effort, Cleverley admitted: 바카라�That would have been the best goal I바카라�ve ever been present for.바카라�