Plymouth manager Steven Schumacher felt his team more than deserved to take something from the 1-1 draw with Town at Portman Road.

On-loan Norwich full-back Bali Mumba’s deflected injury time equaliser claimed a point for the visitors after Wes Burns had given the Blues the lead.

“I really enjoyed it,” Schumacher said. “It's two teams whose styles match. It was a great game early on in the season at our place and we expected something similar here.

“I'm glad the players have showed the courage that we asked them to. We were aggressive and tried to be positive and get on the front foot against what is obviously a really strong Ipswich Town team.

“I'm pleased for them that they kept being positive and they got something from the game, which I felt we more than deserved.”

He added: “I think a lot of the teams that come to Portman Road sit in and try and be compact, but eventually they wear you down and you get beat.

“We just felt the best way for us today was to try and take the game to them, try and be on the front foot, go man for man, force them into mistakes if we could and then create opportunities and pass the ball.

“If I'm being ultra-critical about our team I think they could have played a few more shorter passes, just to open a bit more space up, but that's me being nit-picky I suppose.

“But the attitude and the belief the players showed was good. I know we went behind from a great finish from Burns but we didn't let that affect us. We kept going, we were positive and I think in the end we got what we deserved.”

Regarding on-loan Norwich man Mumba netting against Town for the second time this season, Schumacher added: “It shows the quality he has got. He has got real ability, especially going forward.

“He still makes mistakes, as you saw early on in the second half and put us under mad pressure trying to do a skill on our byline and it goes out for a corner.

“He's a young player and young players do that occasionally. I will never give him stick for that. He has got loads to learn defensively but he has got so much quality going forward.

“He has done it before against Ipswich. I'm sure the Norwich City fans will be delighted to get two goals against them, but I'm just pleased that someone scored and we got something from the game, which I felt was probably right.”

Schumacher revealed that Mumba’s goal wasn’t the Canaries’ only contribution to the Pilgrims’ point, the visitors having flown to Norwich airport and allowed to use their training ground.

“We’re getting a relationship with Norwich. We got Bali off them, we signed Saxon and we’re keeping in contact with them because they always produce good players. We’ve got a good relationship with Stuart Webber and Andy Hughes the loans manager there and Neil Adams.

“We had this plan a while ago, it was actually when Dean Smith was still in charge. We met David Wagner yesterday, who was really welcoming, so that was good. Obviously that’s Ipswich Town’s big rivals.

“We appreciate it because it’s not easy doing what we do, and everyone know that. That’s helped us, I’m sure.”

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OwainG1992 added 20:17 - Jan 14 This Norwich love in from him is sickening!
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SouperJim added 20:19 - Jan 14 See you next Tuesday, shame really as I've always quite liked Plymouth until now.
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Bluespeed added 20:39 - Jan 14 Scumyth Argyle it is then !!
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billlm added 20:42 - Jan 14 Just gone way down in my estimation, scumbag,
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Spirit_of_78 added 20:47 - Jan 14 Cock!
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churchmans added 20:53 - Jan 14 Plymouth are not unique in knowing how we play! Every team has figured it out! I can see why they are top of the leauge! We just ain't good enough for automatic promotion I'm afraid! They played a shade better than us! Just pi***s me off Mumbai scored
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churchmans added 20:54 - Jan 14 Mumba
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pennblue added 21:16 - Jan 14 Not really sure why he appears to be trying to wind us up. Probably annoyed about whittaker and places blame at our door. Sounds like Norwich will keep Mumba there which will help them.
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DJR added 22:10 - Jan 14 He strikes me as being a very good manager. Indeed, in the first half I thought he out-thought McKenna especially with the four or five players close to the penalty area when Walton had the ball. This meant we couldn't play out from the back, with the result that Walton had to kick, generally to nowhere, which was presumably part of the plan. They clearly look out for younger players with talent, so good relations with a club like Norwich sounds a good idea. Indeed, the 5 players they have bought in the transfer window are aged 20-22, in contrast to our 3 players who are that bit older. In any event, I thought at times that they were the best footballing side I've seen at Portman Road since MK Dons last season.

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budgieplucker added 22:29 - Jan 14 Well managed, modest manager, limited resources, considered a backwater but a great club. I wish I could say I would like to see Plymouth win the league or go up automatically with us, however, just seen an interview with Gareth Ainsworth after Wycombe's home defeat against Wednesday. He was convinced today that he had seen the league's champions as Sheffield are strong in all areas!!! I so badly don't want to believe this, I was convinced hitting the winter months and heavy pitches and limited squad numbers would eventually take its toll on Plymouth, nothing I saw today suggested I was right and I do now fear for the play offs. These two teams seem to thrive with the pressure of top two and it gives them the edge, we seem to adopt the attitude that there is no need to look at the league table at the moment as nothing is won in January, let's just take each game as it comes and there is plenty of games left. Much the same mantra as last year where we hoped and thought we had a good opportunity to get in the top six, but we hit a wobbly spell under Kieron, those above us kept winning and the rest was history. My concern is no plan B although George Hirst might just give us a better outlet to go a bit longer, this shouldn't be seen as sacrificing our footballing principles but we need to grab some pragmatism and realising if we keep doing the same thing time and again we will keep dropping points.

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SpiritOfJohn added 07:55 - Jan 15 It was a good contest between Davis and Mumba, which Davis was winning until the 93rd minute. Plymouth are on a fantastic run so they came to us full of confidence and they were able to disrupt our normal patterns of play. They have nicked a lot of late goals, which gives them belief to keep on doing it. I can't see them slipping up too often, but there is still a long way to go. We have made massive strides in the last year, and top two is still there for us if we can go on a long winning run.

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ArnieM added 08:32 - Jan 15 Plymouth SCUM , from now on as far as I'm concerned. REALLY hope it's us that sign Whittaker tomorrow now.
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Bazza8564 added 10:47 - Jan 15 Well reading between the lines the only reason he would be doing the Norwich thing was if he is totally pi55ed with us, so it looks like Whittaker will be here soon then!!!
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