Alex Neil euphoric after late Norwich victory over Newcastle
Saturday 2 April 2016 19:33, UK
Norwich boss Alex Neil was delighted with his side after they claimed a last-gasp 3-2 win over relegation rivals Newcastle on Saturday.
The Canaries saw leads pegged back twice by Aleksandar Mitrovic, but Martin Olsson struck in the 93rd minute to hand his side a vital three points.
"It was great," Neil told Sky Sports. "There's euphoria after winning that type of game, and I think we deserved it. But we'll get back on Monday and start preparing for the next one.
"The character of the players [was excellent]. When you're leading a game that you've controlled the majority of and it ends up being two each, have you got that little bit of extra to dig out what you need? Ultimately we did, and I think that speaks volumes of the squad.
"I said before we're up for the fight. We went through a real poor run of results then in the last three games we've put two wins and a draw together.
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"I said four or five weeks ago there's always a team that puts a run together to get out of trouble. We've made a good start to that but we've got crucial games coming up."
The result lifted Norwich four points clear of the drop zone, with six games left to play - although Sunderland (in 18th) and Newcastle (19th) both have a game in hand on them.
Neil hopes, however, that the dramatic late win at Carrow Road will help to galvanise his squad during the run-in.
"It gives us a real shot in the arm and it gives the squad a bit of belief in what we're doing," he said. "We've got a really good spirit, we're fighting and we're ready for the scrap.
"It's just about us continuing to do what we've been doing."
Match-winner Olsson, meanwhile, also believed it was a huge victory for his side.
"It was a big game," he told Sky Sports. "We knew we had to work hard for it and Newcastle are a strong team, but in the end we got the three points.
"We kept saying 'let's keep going', we knew it wasn't over and we knew we'd create something, and that's what we did.
"We take it one game at a time, but we say we're going to work as a team, that's the only way we're going to stay up."
