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Alex Neil wants Norwich to come out fighting ahead of likely play-off place

Norwich manager Alex Neil
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Norwich manager Alex Neil expects his side to come back with a vengeance after their automatic promotion hopes suffered a damaging blow.

After last week's defeat to Middlesbrough, the Canaries were held to a 1-1 draw at struggling Rotherham on Saturday, though played for over an hour with 10 men following Lewis Grabban's 26th-minute red card.

That result in South Yorkshire means that Neil's side will be consigned to the play-offs if Bournemouth beat Bolton on Monday night.

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Norwich's hopes of Sky Bet Championship automatic promotion were dealt a blow as Rotherham scored a late equaliser in a rousing 1-1 draw

But the Scot is predicting a strong response from his side.

"It won't be difficult to lift them at all. Ultimately, if we're not going to get into the automatics we wanted to get in the play-offs," he said. "That's where it looks like we are going to end up. We want to beat Fulham at home and go into them on good course.

"They're disappointed but the one thing about good footballers is that if they don't win games and feel like they are hard done by, the determination becomes ever more and they want to go and put the wrongs right and that is how they are feeling at the moment.

"We have to make sure we put in a good performance in the next game and win it more importantly."

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