Norwich’s unlikely bid to achieve the Championship play-offs ended after being held to a 1-1 draw by Swansea at Carrow Street.
Needing a win to maintain their slim hopes alive, the Canaries went behind simply after half-time when Zan Vipotnik slotted residence his twenty fifth objective of the season from the spot.
Participant of the season Kenny McLean transformed one other penalty within the 83rd minute to make it attention-grabbing however the residence aspect, who had been within the backside three on the flip of the 12 months, had been unable to discover a winner.
Norwich had been on the entrance foot from the phrase go at a sunny Carrow Street, and it took a wonderful diving save from Lawrence Vigouroux to maintain out a low drive from Mo Toure on 14 minutes.
Harry Darling then nodded a nook simply over earlier than Anis Ben Slimane’s shot from a slim angle drew one other save out of the Swansea keeper.
The Swans had a short sight of objective on 17 minutes, when Goncalo Franco missed his kick from a wonderful place.
However the residence aspect had been usually in management and Vigouroux wanted to be at his greatest once more when the influential Paris Maghoma discovered some area within the field and fired one other highly effective shot on objective.
There was one other good probability for Norwich from the resultant nook, with Jose Cordoba’s effort in a goalmouth melee being deflecting narrowly huge.
The Swans took the lead towards run of play early within the second half after being awarded a penalty.
Cordoba was penalised for a tug on Vipotnik because the striker raced on to Eom Ji-sung’s by means of ball and the guests’ prime scorer calmly transformed from the spot to open the scoring.
As the sport entered the ultimate 20 minutes, Norwich had been struggling to make an affect on the different finish and it wanted the sport’s second penalty kick to offer them a means again into the sport.
Vigoroux was adjudged to have fouled Mathias Kvistgaarden on the again submit because the substitute went for a cross and McLean blasted residence from 12 yards.
That gave the Canaries seven minutes plus added time to maintain their season alive, and McLean virtually scored once more moments later when his header from a nook drifted inches huge, however there was to be no dramatic winner.
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