Ipswich made "too many mistakes" as they were beaten 2-1 by Championship leaders Middlesbrough on Friday night, according to head coach Kieran McKenna.

A Cedric Kipre own goal and Morgan Whittaker's first strike for Boro put the hosts in control before skipper Dara O'Shea gave the Suffolk side hope with a late header.

George Hirst missed a penalty for Ipswich with the score at 0-0.

"We made too many mistakes to win the game or to have too many complaints," McKenna told BBC Radio Suffolk.

"The night could have been different. We could have got the first goal on a couple of occasions, the penalty being the biggest one."

The defeat ends Ipswich's five-match unbeaten run and McKenna feels they failed to manage the game properly

"The bit of the performance I'm most disappointed about is how we managed the most difficult spells of the game - it became too open, too chaotic, we gave up too much," he added.

"To come away to a difficult place against a team in form and a crowd behind them, you can't make as many mistakes as we...