Ipswich post match reaction

Last updated : 24 October 2014 By Michael Morris

C:WindowsTempphpD465.tmpTwo games two wins. It's all plain sailing for the new Cardiff City manager Russell Slade.

"I'm not surprised at the start I have had, I am not surpassing any expectations I had, he said afte the 3 - 1 win over Ipswich.

"I never expect to lose a game, but that's just my mentality.

"I never go out to try and nick a result. I am going out there to win.

"I am a football man, I've done 650 games or more as a manager and I know what it's all about.

"It is just two games but it gives us a bit of momentum and the belief in the players is growing."

Slade was particularly pleased with how his players responded after falling behind to Murphy's goal, during a period of the match when they were being tormented by the guile of Ipswich's on-loan Crystal Palace midfielder Jonathan Williams.

He said: "We did not start the game as well as we did on Saturday and I was disappointed with the goal we gave away, we turned the ball over to them three or four times in quick succession on the edge of their box and did not close down well enough."

"But I was pleased with the response we got. It was a great goal from Whitts and then in the second half we galvanised ourselves and took control."

Murphy had beaten David Marshall with an angled drive after Fabio failed to deal with Jonathan Parr's ball down the line.

But Whittingham, who scored a superb goal against Nottingham Forest at the weekend, topped even that effort with a 30-yard thunderbolt into the top corner.

Macheda prodded home from close range from Anthony Pilkington's fierce cross after Ipswich had failed to clear several balls into the box, before Le Fondre sent a left-footed finish in off the post.

It ended the Tractor Boys' eight-match unbeaten run, and left manager Mick McCarthy fuming.

He said: "It was very disappointing. We played well in the first half but I don't know what happened in the second half.

"They could have been playing the circus music out there the way we defended for their goals in the second half.

"For the second goal we did not make the first clearance, the second clearance or the third clearance and it ends up being a shot across the box, the lad sticks his leg out and it goes in.

"It was similar for the third, it was not very good at all. It was comic cuts."