Ipswich Town beat Accrington Stanley to extend their unbeaten run to five games

Kieran McKenna praised the performance of his Ipswich Town side as they saw off Accrington Stanley to extend their unbeaten run to five games.

On a night that saw the gap between the Blues and Plymouth Argyle, who sit in second, close to just two points at one stage, Ipswich comfortably beat John Coleman's team.

January signing Nathan Broadhead opened the scoring for Town in the 12th minute, before second half goals from Kayden Jackson and Kyle Edwards rounded off the win.

"There was some good things about the performance," said the Town boss.

"Some good goals, created other chances and showed some good resilience for the clean sheet against a team who wanted to put some balls into the box.

"There was bits of the game that were scrappy and there were spells where it was difficult. It was a good nights work and onto Saturday."

With one eye on Saturday's clash away to play-off chasing rivals Bolton Wanderers, McKenna made just two changes to his line-up from Saturday's 4-0 win against Burton Albion.

Kayden Jackson replaced Wes Burns on the right-hand side, while Janoi Donacien came in for Harry Clarke.

The pair's performance was commended by Kieran McKenna after the full-time whistle.

"It was thoroughly deserved," added the Ipswich manager when asked about Jackson's man of the match award.

"I thought both him and Janoi both did really well coming into the team and were a real threat down that side all night. And that's what we need from the squad, people being exactly Kayden and Janoi."

Town started the game in similar fashion to the previous outing against Burton, before a beautiful passing move resulted in Nathan Broadhead netting his fourth goal for the club in the 12th minute.

After a shaky first half, strikes from Kayden Jackson and Kyle Edwards saw the Blues register their fourth win in a row, as well as their fifth successive clean sheet.

McKenna added: "I thought we were really brave all night, the boys deserve a lot of credit because it is not easy with teams coming to play man-to-man against us.

"I think we still had a gear to go up at (half-time). We started the game really well I thought, the intent was really good and we got the goal. I did think we had a spell where we didn't play as simply as what we could have done and made some more technical errors than what we could have done.

"It was about doing the job right in the second half. It was the second game in quick succession, it was about staying concentrated, keeping the clean sheet and trusting that if we do the right things spaces will open up and goals will come in the second half."

Ipswich head to Bolton Wanderers on Saturday, before hosting Shrewsbury Town on Saturday, March 18.