Darren Moore disputes Paul Lambert's claim rock-bottom Ipswich deserved to beat West Brom

Albion's worrying home form continued with a 1-1 draw against the Tractor Boys that leaves their automatic promotion hopes in tatters.

Despite being seven points adrift at the bottom of the table, Ipswich had more possession (53 per cent to 47 per cent), more shots (22 to 16), and more shots on target (seven to five) than Albion.

And Ipswich boss Lambert said afterwards: "I thought we were the better team and deserved to win.

"It could have been 3-1, 4-1, we had that many chances. We don't look like a team at the bottom at the moment."

But Moore disputed that claim from the former Villa and Wolves manager in his post-match press conference.

He said Albion might have won a penalty at 1-0 up when Dwight Gayle was upended in the box, and pointed to a number of saves Ipswich goalkeeper Bartosz Bialkowski made.

"Their keeper has come away with man of the match," said Moore. "If he's going to say 3-1 or 4-1, I'll say 4-1 or 5-1 to us, because Dwight's had chances, Jacob Murphy's had chances, Craig Dawson's had a header, Tosin Adarabioyo's had a header.

"We've had chances all over the pitch in both halves to win the game. Even at 1-1 we wanted to win the game.

"That's without the penalty (appeal), and that's at 1-0. For him to say we should have only had one goal, I suppose you've got two head coaches that see the game totally different."

When the statistics of the game were put to Moore, and he was asked if he was concerned the bottom side had more than matched his promotion-chasing team, Albion's boss said: "But the team bottom of the table have got nothing to lose.

"They've got to come here and play, if they don't do it we know the outcome. They're in a situation where every single week they've got to go for week.

"They've got to push men forward and go for the jugular, that'll be their gameplan going forward.

"Ours is to focus on us here, we've got another quick turnaround. The only opportunity we get to put that right is the next game, which is on Wednesday."

Stefan Johansen gave Albion the lead four minutes in with a deflected free-kick, but Ipswich equalised three minutes after the break when Jon Nolan was given a free header in the box.

"We scored the goal early doors, it was a great start," said Moore. "We couldn't get the all important second goal.

"I thought the keeper played well, he pulled off some great saves. When I look back at it now, I've seen the Dwight Gayle incident, on another day we get a penalty.

"If we get the second goal it would have been an uphill task for them. Second half they came out with nothing to go, they got a lifeline with the equaliser.

"Even at 1-1 we tried to get the second goal, we had four or five chances over the course of the game, be that at 1-0 or 1-1, but it just eluded us.

"We've had two defeats, even though we wanted to win today, make no mistake about it, we didn't lose it and we have to look forward to Wednesday."

Moore made five changes to his team. Mason Holgate and Kieran Gibbs were injured, and Hal Robson-Kanu was ill, but he rested Gareth Barry, Ahmed Hegazi and Rekeem Harper after a hectic February.

He also changed his formation for the game from a 4-3-3 to a 3-4-3, but Albion struggled to get to grips with the system and made mistakes at the back.

When Moore was asked if the number of changes disorganised the players, he said: "No, the players and the team we selected today was one we thought was right to go and get the win.

"We played a different shape, they played a different shape, the way they rotated as well, you wouldn't have pinned down a shape for either team because of their rotation.

"With us getting the early goal and having three central defenders allowed us to push an extra man forward and enabled us to go and win the game.

"We exploited the space but the final touch eluded us a little bit. We move on."