Ipswich Town 2-4 Nottingham Forest: Tractor Boys pay for basic errors

A bad afternoon for Ipswich only got worse when news of Wolves' victory at Southampton filtered through to Portman Road.

Kieran McKenna's team, who remain 18th in the table, are now nine points from safety and while there were some positives against Nottingham Forest, there were too few, crucially in the first half, when the scores were level.

By the time Ipswich looked like scoring they were already three goals down after a calamitous seven-minute period, when the game and any prospect of earning their first league win in 2025 had drifted away from them.

McKenna has spoken repeatedly about learning lessons but the basics of defending were not adhered and proved costly against Forest.

A poor defensive header from Liam Delap was punished by Nikola Milenkovic for Forest's first goal, while Anthony Elanga was allowed to run over 40 yards without being challenged to score his first of the day for the visitors.

Elanga's second and Forest's third arrived due to indecision in defence and Ipswich are showing few signs that they can extricate themselves from the bottom three with only nine fixtures remaining.