We should have won it, insists McKenna
IPSWICH TOWN 2
Broadhead 46, Hutchinson 90+3
WEST BROM 2
Fellows 18, Swift 76
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IPSWICH boss Kieran McKenna felt his side should have beaten top-six rivals West Brom after sub Omari Hutchinson snatched a late equaliser.
Hutchinson fired home through a crowd of players in the dying moments to rescue a point for the hosts, but the result dented their bid to climb back into the automatic promotion spots and it is now just one win in nine league games for them.
The Baggies opened the scoring through Tom Fellows in the first half with Nathan Broadhead replying for Ipswich just after the start of the second, but a wonderful strike by John Swiftwas cancelled out by Hutchinson in the third minute of stoppagetime.
Town came close to gaining maximum points during a frenetic eight minutes of added time when Albion goalkeeper Alex Palmer blocked a shot from Ali Al-Hamadi.
McKenna said: “I thought it was a really good game, great atmosphere, bar from a couple of inches from the end, we would have been talking about an absolute classic in terms of games we’ve had at this stadium.
“Lots of good things about the performance. I thought we deserved the three points.
“Two moments that we did not defend well enough that leads to frustration that we haven’t won the game and another game that we feel like we’ve done enough to win the game.
“In plenty of games we have had better opportunities, better chances and more of them and not given too much away and that’s always frustrating when we don’t get the wins, but it’s always much more concerning when you’re not giving away chances, that’s not been the case.
“They (West Brom) are a really fit team who work hard. The energy levels we had at the end, the impact of the substitutes – that’s something that we can take big positives from.”
Albion took a well-deserved lead in the 18th minute through Fellows following a counter attack. He was found on the left by Andreas Weimann and Fellows
