And, it probably won’t be the last time you see Ainsley Maitland-Niles on the score sheet.
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In truth, Ipswich dominated proceedings and should have won by a much greater margin, much to the delight of McCarthy.
“It gets us out of the bottom, and results went for us – we’ve got a good week coming up, and we’ll be looking to get points from those two games”.
“I would have taken a scruffy shinner or an own goal to get back to winning ways but our performance was outstanding”.
“We had a hard spell in the first half but we weathered that storm”.
Kevin Bru shot wide from the edge of the area before turning provider when his driven cross was met by the head of Pitman but it was well held by the diving Ben Amos.
There was a highly contested match on Tuesday night in the Sky Bet Championship, as Ipswich Town took on Bolton Wanderers, in what was set up to be a thrilling encounter.
A quick counter saw Daryl Murphy release Maitland-Niles down the right wing and the Arsenal loanee cut inside before finding the bottom far corner with a precise shot.
Bolton Wanderers manager Neil Lennon has insisted that he has no plans to walk away from the club, despite their poor start to the Championship season.
‘I will never quit.
“I can’t change personnel, we’ve tried to, but the finances aren’t there, so we have to work with what we’ve got”. We had a big team out in terms of physicality and size.
“If you don’t compete in this division, particularly against a team like Mick McCarthy’s, then you’re going to get beaten”, he said.
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“The problem is if you’re not scoring goals and you’re not keeping clean sheets then mentally and psychologically it damages you and weakens you”.
