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Callum Connolly scored for Ipswich in what was his eighth appearance for the Championship club since joining on loan from Everton

Callum Connolly's first goal for Ipswich brought an end to their three-game winless run with victory at Derby.

Connolly met an early Martyn Waghorn corner to put Town ahead, with the ball crossing the line after Scott Carson parried his header onto the bar.

Curtis Davies had Derby's only first-half shot on goal blocked on the line.

Carson denied Connolly a second after the break, while Tom Huddleston, Matej Vydra and Joe Ledley had chances to level, only for Ipswich to hold on.

Victory for Mick McCarthy's Tractor Boys was just their third in 10 league games and moved them up to ninth in the table, within three points of the Rams in the play-off places.

Derby, who could have moved as high as fourth with a win, have now failed to beat Ipswich in 10 home league matches, losing seven, dating back to 2006.

Just three days after Gary Rowett's men beat Middlesbrough 3-0 to move above the Teesside club and into the play-off places, they failed to recreate their clinical attacking display.

Davies went closest to equalising from a Tom Lawrence corner before the break, while Bartosz Bialkowski foiled Huddleston after the break.

Vydra, who scored all three goals at the Riverside and had scored seven goals in six matches before Ipswich's visit, was a constant threat for the Rams, while Ledley put a late chance to level over as Derby lost for just the second time in 12 league games.

Derby manager Gary Rowett told BBC Radio Derby:

"I wouldn't say we started poorly, but we obviously didn't defend well enough early on in the game.

"For some reason we've just had two or three games now where we haven't started as well as we'd like to.

"They sat in for 85 minutes and made it very difficult for us. When a team drops in like that around the edge of the box and gives you no room, it's difficult, it's hard not to force the odd pass or go backwards sometimes.

"We had plenty of chances, we just couldn't quite find that little bit of quality, and when we did find that bit of quality their keeper made two very good saves."

Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy told BBC Radio Suffolk:

"They should have given me the manager's job here a long time ago, I've got a better record here than I have at Portman Road!

"There was nothing lucky about that performance, we played as we wanted to.

"I thought we were a threat in the first half - we've had to defend of course, they're a good team with good players.

"Bartosz [Bialkowski] has made one great save, but over and above that, we've not really been peppered with shots and I thought we were a threat."