Gary O’Neil speaks to Sky Sports. “We had to hang on and fight … a tough game … tough conditions … we were never quite good enough with the ball to turn it into a football match … it ended up being Forest’s direct play, second balls, that ended up taking control of the game … we had to match that … the wind was crazy … they’re a good side … to fight back and pick up another point … we rolled our sleeves up … I thought [the Diop decision] was a really well-worked-out decision by the referee … sometimes they go your way … tonight it did … we move on … we ground it out … we did OK … we’ll get some learnings from it, and get ready for a big test at Hull next week.”

Morgan Gibbs-White, who has been named as player of the match, speaks to Sky Sports. “We’ve had so many good performances recently … we’ve never been able to get the three points … we had a lot of chances … the second half, we dominated completely and should have won the game in my eyes … as long as we keep performing like this, the wins will have to come … it’s the question we’ve been asking ourselves in training every week … we’ve been doing shooting drills in training … it was top … unfortunately they don’t go in today … it’s the topic of discussion … it’s not good enough … but I’m proud of the boys for keeping going and keeping performances high … it’s a mentality thing … a bit of bad luck that we’re going through … we’ve got to stay positive … keep the togetherness … keep the mentality right … if we keep performing like that every week, surely a bit of luck will come our way … I kinda agree with the [Diop red-card] decision because whether [James McAtee] is going to get there, nobody knows … but he is the last man at the end of the day … I think there needs to be a little bit of ownership on the pitch … the referee and the linesman can see exactly what’s happened … we wait for VAR to intervene all the time instead of making decision there and then on the pitch and making the game natural … it is what it is … we have to take ownership and take our chances … keeping the good vibes up in training.”

Ipswich Town will probably be the happier of the two teams, given the balance of play favoured Nottingham Forest for the most part. Forest scored a fine early goal, Neco Williams lashing home Daniel Muñoz’s cross, but Nikola Milenković’s mistake gifted Julio Enciso an equaliser, and despite their second-half dominance, the visitors’ bluntness in the final third cost them dear. Having said that, they’ll wonder how on earth Issa Diop wasn’t sent packing for a tractor-adjacent last-man clank on James McAtee; had Ipswich been reduced to ten men for the majority of the second period, we could be looking at a very different result. But here we are. The xG at the end: 0.46 to Ipswich, 2.31 to Forest. Yes, Ipswich will probably drift off happier as everyone goes to sleep tonight.

Half-time postbag. “There’s always one relegated team per season which is too good to go down. I don’t think it’ll be Forest this season, because they really do look too good to go down, but it could be them if they don’t start putting away their chances. That said, the team too good to go down will probably be Manchester City” – Kári Tulinius.

“Just to underline how early in the season it still is, the live table has had Forest in 18th, 10th and 17th in the space of half an hour” – Dave Estherby

“With a clever Austrian manager, a feisty Austrian midfielder (Xaver Schlager) and a crafty Swiss winger (Dan Ndoye), Forest have got a bit of Alpine sturdiness about them these days” – Peter Oh