"It was a great performance but more importantly we needed three points," said Sousa.
"I'm proud of the players, they are working very hard and they have beaten the team at the top of the league.
"When you have time to work with the players the team becomes better, and you could see that in this game.
"But our next two games are away, where our performances have not been so good.
"But if my team create as many chances as they did today then we will start to score goals away."
Mick McCarthy
"This has been a tough place to play for as long as I can remember, and they are fired up by the fact that we are top and they have a new manager.
"We are the top team in this division - I'm not saying we're the best, but we are top - and that inspires other teams to play against you and we have got to live with that.
"We are still top. We didn't play well for 50 minutes today but we did play well for 35 minutes and we just could not get a goal back."