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Magilton aims for consistency

Jim Magilton was happy his Ipswich side bounced back to form with a 4-1 thrashing of Coventry.

The Tractor Boys had suffered successive away defeats but cruised to victory against The Sky Blues at Portman Road.

Pablo Counago scored twice and Jason De Vos and Jonathan Walters also netted as Ipswich maintained a 100 per cent home record.

"We needed to get out of the blocks quickly and we capitalised on that to score some good goals," Magilton said.

"We have applied ourselves well in training all week after I was critical of the display at West Brom.

"We need to have the same sort of performance from the players away from home. I wish we could bottle this sort of form for our away games."

Very poor

Coventry manager Iain Dowie was far from pleased with the defending on show from his side on Saturday evening.

"One team could defend and the other couldn't. We gave a very poor defensive display," Dowie added.

"The first goal we conceded was a litany of errors. I put it down as a blip. I hope it's only a blip because I cannot put up with defending like that.

"We will all have to work hard on the training ground during the week."

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