Canaries must keep the faith

ALEX NEIL has told his Norwich players they will not escape relegation without self- belief after watching them fall to another defeat against Swansea.

The Canaries slid to their eighth loss in their last nine games at the Liberty Stadium as Gylfi Sigurdsson slotted the winner to ease the home side’s own relegation fears.

Swansea are nine points clear of Norwich and the drop zone, with Neil and his side left targeting home games against fellow strugglers Newcastle and Sunderland as must- win encounters .

“I said to the players after the game we have to keep believing. We have to believe we can get across the line,” said Neil, right.

“There are two teams in it with us now. We have both of them at home, and they are not winning games .

“We want to make sure we are that team that can go on a run between now and the end of the season. The guys are giving everything. Somebody will do it, somebody will put some results together and climb out, and we have to make sure it is us.

“Our fans have been with us throughout and were brilliant again even though we’ve given them very little to shout about this season .”

While combative throughout, it was only once they fell a goal behind that Norwich played with urgency and it proved a case of too little, too late. The arrival of the pacy Mo

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Barow at half- time allowed Swansea to stretch the game and it helped open the space for ex- Norwich man Leroy Fer to roll the ball across the 18- yard box for Sigurdsson to fi nish .

Swansea held on for a second win in four days, collected as head coach Francesco Guidolin recovers from a chest infection in a London hospital. They face Bournemouth and Aston Villa in their next two games and Sigurdsson, who has scored six goals in 10 games since the turn of the year, wants to get the job of securing league safety done as soon as possible. “It has been massive for us but we have some important games coming up,” he said. “We need to make sure we pick up some points and beat the teams around us. The pressure is not off yet and we will not be happy until it is done.”

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