FRANK Lampard hopes his Coventry City side will ‘eradicate’ future individual errors following defeat against Ipswich Town in the FA Cup fourth round.
The Sky Blues suffered a heavy 4-1 home defeat against the Tractor Boys at the Coventry Building Society Arena.
City conceded a penalty just 22 seconds into the game and lost possession deep inside their own half before Ipswich scored their third goal.
And Lampard hopes the Sky Blues will eradicate any individual mistakes as the season goes on.
Lampard said: “That’s football, there’s tactics, structure, there’s the team and then sometimes there are individual errors within it, and we have to work against them, and they happen.
“We analyse it after and hopefully we eradicate them as they go, but mistakes happen in football, and they have taken advantage of them and we didn’t take advantage of our moments at the other end at times.
“We were in the game, even conceding in the first minutes of the game, we showed good character, good play to come back and get level.
“We carried on playing well, but we concede the second and then the third with a mistake, which is the most disappointing goal with how it made the game feel.
“There was some good stuff in big parts of the game, the mistakes that lead to their goal is disappointing, could we be more clinical, maybe in certain moments but I don’t think the scoreline generally reflects the performance.”
An early penalty from George Hirst put the visitors ahead before Joel Latibeaudiere glanced Jack Rudoni’s corner into the net to draw City level inside 10 minutes.
However, a brace from Jack Clarke put Ipswich in command at the break before Jaden Philogene complete the scoring just past the hour mark.
And Lampard stressed the need for his side to move on from the result ahead of hosting Queens Park Rangers in midweek.
Lampard added: “It’s an important part of it [being clinical], it doesn’t make the mistakes we made any less relevant for us to analyse, but maybe this is a little bit of the difference in what we’re looking at and we respect Ipswich for that.
“I thought the lads made a good effort and we put out a team to compete in this cup and on another day, I think with our performance, we get a much closer result.
“I think we sneak possession in the game, and we had as much if not more chances, the maybe had the more quality chances, but if you analyse the game without the goals, it’s pretty even.
“So, for all the issues with how the game falls for us, I thought the lads dealt with it well and now it’s important we just move on and look at QPR now.”
Coventry host QPR on Tuesday, February 11 with kick-off at 7.45pm at the CBS Arena.
