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Mario Vrancic's late penalty means Norwich have won 13 Championship points from a possible 15 in September

Mario Vrancic scored a late penalty to defeat Wigan Athletic and extend Norwich City's winning run.

The sides looked to be heading for a stalemate at Carrow Road before the home side's Finnish forward Teemu Pukki was held back in the box with less than five minutes to play.

Bosnian midfielder Vrancic made no mistake from the resulting spot-kick and Paul Cook's Latics were unable to find a response.

The Canaries have now won five consecutive matches in all competitions - claiming 13 Championship points from a possible 15 in September.

Wigan had arrived in East Anglia buoyed by back-to-back league victories at the DW Stadium, but this result - in which the Latics failed to register a shot on target - was a third straight Championship defeat away from home.

Cook's side slip out of the top six and down to eighth, while Daniel Farke's Norwich climb to fifth.

Norwich City manager Daniel Farke said:

"I'm very happy. To have consistency in the results with so many games is really pleasing. It was a hard-fought win.

"We showed our will to win today. When you have this desire and commitment and togetherness you can reach extraordinary things.

"The league table doesn't mean anything to me at the moment. It's important to have had a good start, but it's important to go on with this. We have to win as many points as we can get."

Wigan Athletic boss Paul Cook said:

"When the referee awarded the penalty I felt game was petering out into 0-0 draw, with two teams cancelling each other out.

"We got into some great positions in the final third and did a good job pressing them up the pitch but our end product wasn't great.

"I did think the incident in the first was a penalty if I am being honest but after that we always wondered if another opportunity came along the referee would give it, and that's what happened."