Ipswich Town boss makes Sheffield Wednesday admission after ‘really big’ Hillsborough win

The Owls and the Tractor Boys played out two 2-2 draws last season in their League One promotion campaign, with both sides coming from two goals down on home soil in order to pick up a point.

Saturday saw them meet as Championship sides for the first time following their clamber up out of League One, and it was the visitors that came out on top with a comfortable 1-0 win that could have been more if not for goalkeeper, Devis Vasquez.

Though in many ways it’s not seen as anything more than another three points, the Ipswich boss admitted that it was nice to see off a rival that had run them so close last time out.

“I think so,” McKenna said if beating the Owls was significant. “It doesn’t mean anything going forward in the season, but in isolation I think I lost one of my first games here, we played them last year and they were two really even games and probably the first half it didn’t look like two teams which were competing so evenly and so tightly last year.

“I think it’s a nice reference for the boys to feel their improvement out there on the pitch against some really good players that they’ve battled against many years some of them. That’s a nice reference for us.

“But you can never read everything into these things. Tuesday’s a new game, Saturday’s a new game after that. But in isolation it was really big for us to come here and win.”