Charlton boss Nathan Jones ‘very proud’ after three-goal win at Ipswich

Charlton manager Nathan Jones said he was “very proud” of his team’s outstanding performance following their 3-0 victory over Ipswich at Portman Road.

Meanwhile, Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna reflected on the game being a “terrible result” for the club as they lost their first home game of the season.

The Addicks scored twice through Sonny Carey and Macaulay Gillesphey in a pulsating three-minute second half spell, with Miles Leaburn adding a third as they climbed to fifth in the Sky Bet Championship.

Jones said: “They have got some squad, some team and the first 25 minutes we had to get to grips with it and felt that we were really passive and allowed them to work their patterns to get their good players into areas and we had to defend the box really, really well.

“Then we started to get a bit more aggressive and started to get on the front foot a bit more and felt we had the best chances (of the) first half.

“I think we had four real good chances and at half-time we got into the players and we went after the game.

“Second half we really went after the game and the goals were excellent goals and that was some performance.

“We come here – a wonderful team, a big budget, a load of players well coached, a good manager, a wonderful way of playing, difficult to play against –  and you have to be right at it.

“Let’s go out and go right up against them and see how good they are and we found out. It’s the most wonderful group, the most humble group.

“I thought we were really, really good tonight and I’m very proud of that performance, proud of the club, there won’t be many better performances at this place all season.”

McKenna said: “Of course it’s a terrible result for us.

“There’s two different bits to the game. There’s the spell after their goal, the rest of the game after their goal where our reaction was nowhere near good enough.

“We did not find the strength we needed individually or as a team to deal with the negative momentum, didn’t do the fundamentals well enough, didn’t defend set-plays, didn’t defend our box, didn’t track runs well enough, didn’t defend our goal anywhere near well enough.

“That reaction was nowhere near good enough.

“There’s the other bit of the game where first half there was a lot of the aspects that were really, really good.

“We should have scored and have been ahead…we controlled 95 per cent of the half really well and over the course of the night we’ve have had 30 shots and should score, on a normal night, three or four goals.

“We know it’s also not good enough to be more clinical but we weren’t clinical enough with our execution.”