Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna admitted the club 'needs to recruit well' in the January transfer window following this afternoon's frustrating 1-1 draw at Lincoln City.

The Blues played against 10 men for almost an hour, but went behind to a controversial Jack Diamond penalty before rescuing a draw through Cameron Humphreys' late header.

Town have claimed 14 points from their last nine league games (W3 D5 L1) to slip out of the automatic promotion places ahead of a crunch home clash with league leaders Plymouth on January 14.

“We feel like we should be scoring more for the chances that we’re creating, so we need to be more clinical," admitted McKenna.

“We need to keep working with the players individually, we need to recruit well in the window to be more clinical with the chances we get and we need to keep working on our play as a team to create more chances.

“But the reality is that we are creating many more chances than any team in the league and we’re giving much fewer chances than any team in the league.

"We can sit here and poke and look at the faults but probably we’re doing that because we’ve lost points in really fine margins games.

“For sure, we’re going to look to add to the squad and improve the squad in the second half of the season. But, of course, the other teams will as well.

“Now we have 11 days or so with no (league) game. We’ll hopefully get some new players in the door, which will give us a boost and give ourselves the best chance of a good second half of the season.”

Asked if any deals were close to being done, McKenna said: "I need to catch up tomorrow with Mark (Ashton). I know it's not impossible. I know they are working really hard. I can't say either way.

 

"My focus has been on the three games this week. I'll now find out where we are with the players we are in for."