Krul plays a blinder as Canaries

Daniel Farke is refusing to give up on his “little miracle” after seeing battling Norwich miss out on a precious victory at Newcastle.

The bottom-of-thetable Canaries dominated proceedings at St James’ Park and made enough chances to have won the game comfortably, only for some wayward finishing by Teemu Pukki and the excellence of

Magpies keeper Martin Dubravka to ensure they emerged with a draw.

They are now seven points from safety with 13 games to go, but Farke is hopeful that they can defy the odds and stay up if they continue to play with such vigour.

He said: “Although we are playing with such a young side and perhaps not the highest individual quality, we want to work on our little miracle and to surprise everyone and to stay in this league.

“We know it would be a little miracle, but we know it’s possible because we deliver such top-class performances. Definitely a few points would have helped today, so just to be allowed to travel back with one point is disappointing, without any doubt.

Norwich might have been ahead as early as the fifth minute had Dubravka not kept out Sam Byram’s bullet header, and the Slovakia international denied Pukki ether side of half-time as chances kept coming, but went unclaimed

Farke said: “In general,anawaydraw atNewcastleandaclean sheet is not a bad result, not a bad result at all.

“My players fulfilled everything I was asking for, so we were able to control their unbelievable individual quality up front, we were able to control their physicality and create chances out of more or less each and every topic.

“We were dangerous of of counter-attacks, we were dangerous out of set-pieces, we were dangerous out of playmaking. It was more like