BURNLEY'S wing wizard Glen Little believes their paths may cross again with Ipswich - in the play-offs.

The 25-year-old was disappointed to only earn a point and miss the chance to leapfrog Town in the table. But, after two competitive games against them this season, he is hopeful of a third meeting as both sides push for promotion.

"We're both looking for a place in the top six," he said. "Maybe it's a bit of surprise they are in mid-table along with ourselves but they seem to have picked up a bit since Joe Royle came in.

"They'll be trying to push for the play-offs, just like ourselves. Whether it can happen or not we'll have to wait and see but we hope it can.

"It was a shame to only draw against Ipswich because you always like to win at home, but they are a good side."

And Little admitted he wasn't surprised the game ended in a dead heat.

"I thought it was a bit harsh when we went in 1-0 down at half-time but it was a bad goal to concede," he said.

"I thought the first half was fairly even and overall a draw was a fair result. It was a good game, both sides wanted to win. With the position we're in, we needed to win but they needed to win as well and when you've got both teams going for it, it usually ends up in a draw," added Little, who was delighted to see Robbie Blake's penalty hit the back of the net to cancel out Pablo Counago's first-half goal.

"You could see the penalty coming a mile off when the ball was fed through by Alan Moore to Ian Moore," he said. "The keeper came out, Ian went down, got a penalty and got us back into the game.

"When you get back into it, usually the momentum swings and you think you're going to go on and win, but it wasn't to be.

"It could have gone either way - they had chances, we had chances."

One such opening was created by Little himself for substitute Dimi Papadopoulos five minutes from time.

And the Clarets wide man couldn't believe how the Greek striker didn't finish from less than five yards out.

"I think we would have won if that had gone in but, in saying that, they had a couple of chances towards the end where, if they had scored, they would have won," he said.

"The two games we've had against them have probably the most enjoyable of the season and no-one's come out with a win."

But Little reckons Burnley's play-off push will gain a head of steam if they can get results from their next two league games.

"We've just played Ipswich, we've got Crystal Palace next week and Reading in the following league game so we knew we had three teams all above us and if we could win we could jump above them," he said.

"Neither of us or Ipswich could afford to draw on Saturday because we need to make ground on the play-offs. But the most important thing for us was not to lose.

"If you lose at this stage of the season and in the next couple of months you do fall off the pace, especially with the start we had this season.

"We know we've always been playing catch-up and we can't afford any more mistakes.

"We've had a few already with games against the likes of Bradford and Brighton.

"I don't think you can call Saturday a mistake because they are a good side and, on another day we might have got beat.

"So you have to say a point against Ipswich is quite a good result."