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Norwich City head coach David Wagner says his side need to be more clinical after a late goal saw them surrender the three points against Coventry City.

Norwich City head coach David Wagner says his side need to be more clinical after a late goal saw them surrender the three points against Coventry City.

After going in front in the first half, Norwich would hold on until the 88th minute when Coventry's pressure told and Ben Gibson would unfortunately turn the ball into his own net.

"When you concede a goal like this so late, it's disappointing and it hurts," Wagner said.

"But at the end of the day, and I said this to the lads as well, look at the performance, it was a great shift, the work rate was unbelievable, commitment, togetherness. We were unfortunate that we were unable to use our chances from the counter which we wanted to do today.

"We should kill the game, second half we had a period of 20/25 minutes where we calmed down the game. There we had to use one of our opportunities from Adam Idah or Liam Gibbs. Unfortunately, we have not done that and then you concede shortly before the end. This means disappointing, yes, but I think it was a fair point."

The international break now comes into view with two weeks until Leeds United come to Carrow Road on October 21.

With a host of the first-team squad away representing their countries, Wagner will have different methods of keeping the remainder of the squad involved.

"We will make some days off for them. Some of the guys will play with the Under-21s on Monday to get some minutes as well, to improve their fitness.

"It's different if you are healthy or match-fit but we have some work to do with one or other. Hopefully then the internationals will come back healthy and we will have a proper group."

With World Mental Health Day on Tuesday, the club also had suicide prevention charity Samaritans on their shirt for the fixture which Wagner highlighted is something that the club and its partners are in a good position to amplify.

"It's great that our three sponsors, Lotus, Sekura and Gran Canaria have done this, made the shirt free for a very important topic.

"We all know how important mental health is, it's not been spoken about a lot in the past but hopefully it will be more in the future."