Rafa Benitez laments ‘painful’ loss for Newcastle

Norwich City 3 Newcastle United 2: Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez maintains his team can survive in the Barclays Premier League despite a “painful” loss at Norwich.

Aleksandar Mitrovic’s penalty four minutes from time had looked like rescuing a point for the Magpies to keep them three points behind their hosts.

But Martin Olsson scored in stoppage time to earn Norwich a vital win which leaves Newcastle 19th and six points adrift of safety with seven games to go.