Ipswich Town column: Special ‘team’ ingredients from last season have sadly been missing

I'm ready for the season to finish. It's rather dragging now and yet another drubbing at Portman Road doesn't help with that.

Sunday's 4-0 defeat to Arsenal was another nail in an already firmly shut coffin.

Mikel Arteta's side were very impressive and probably the best I've seen all season, but I was frustrated with how we set up to face them.

We were always likely to have less of the ball, so the times we did get it we had to be more direct.

I'm not saying we should've booted it into the channels every five minutes, but surely knocking it around our backline only to be dispossessed wasn't the answer either?

Yes, the quality of the opposition was high. But Town were so poor once again and I left feeling frustrated by our lack of movement, both defensively and offensively.

Arsenal's third goal optimised that and it was a terrible piece of defending, once again this season.

A lot has been made about Leif Davis' red card. It was deserved in my opinion and I think the referee would have ended up showing one, even if he'd given a yellow in the first place, once VAR had seen it. It was a lazy piece of defending from Town's left back, who has really struggled this season.

Leif was somebody I predicted to be in the England camp this time last season. He's now somebody I can't see anywhere but the Championship for now.

This summer is huge and I don't think we should presume Town bounce straight back up either.

This is a different side to the one that got promoted. It seems to lack that same camaraderie which played such a big part in our promotion last time and right now, looks a long way off being 'a team'.

There's more work to be done than we think and I think we may lose more players than expected. That said, let's get through these next five games and hope our friends in Newcastle fancy have an off day.