Bristol City 1-1 Norwich City

Yanic Wildschut's goal against Bristol City was his first for Norwich since joining from Wigan in January

Bailey Wright scored a late equaliser to rescue a point for struggling Bristol City against Norwich City, who have gone five games without victory.

The Australia defender scrambled the ball home after the Canaries failed to clear David Cotterill's corner.

Yanic Wildschut had put Norwich ahead, striding forward unchallenged and placing a shot past Frank Fielding.

The Robins, who sacked coach John Pemberton before the game, pressed for a winner but stay in the bottom three.

Bristol City are 22nd in the Championship table and one point adrift of safety prior to a crucial match against 23rd-placed Wigan Athletic on Saturday.

They had looked on course for a 15th league defeat in 21 matches before Wright's 78th-minute intervention - his first goal for the club - having struggled to carve out many clear sights of goal.

But the course of the match turned dramatically after the equaliser, with Callum O'Dowda twice well denied by Michael McGovern before the home side had appeals for a penalty turned down by the referee.

Alex Neil's Norwich are now nine points off the play-off places with 11 games left to play.

Bristol City boss Lee Johnson: "In the end we might have won it. I thought before the game that our substitutes would make a difference and that's exactly what happened.

"We paid Norwich a bit too much respect in the first half, but still had an opportunity when Callum O'Dowda hit the crossbar.

"I know football too well to look any further ahead than our next game at Wigan on Saturday, when we hope to have Tammy Abraham back from injury, which would be a huge boost."

Norwich manager Alex Neil: "We have let a great opportunity slip. If we had converted even one of some great first-half chances the game would have been over.

"Steven Naismith has failed to score one-on-one with the keeper and we had other openings created by some really good attacking play.

"Our forwards were not as sharp in the second half and we allowed Bristol to bully us with their direct style."