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Andy Rinomhota celebrates after scoring his first goal for Reading this season in their draw against Norwich

Championship leaders Norwich City's eight-game winning run came to an end after Andy Rinomhota's late equaliser earned lowly Reading a shock draw at Carrow Road.

Rinomhota's fine strike in the seventh minute of stoppage time gave the Royals a dramatic point, after Norwich had scored twice in the last four minutes to go 2-1 up.

Reading took a surprise lead through Yakou Meite, who latched on to Mo Barrow's delivery to fire home from close range.

Ben Godfrey pulled the Canaries level in the 86th minute with a terrific strike from distance, before Christoph Zimmermann's header completed the turnaround moments later.

But Reading, who had been forced to withstand heavy pressure after half-time, made it 2-2 when Rinomhota found the net deep into added time.

The league leaders had been forced to chase the game after Meite gave the Royals the lead following a quiet start of few chances for either side.

Norwich were without midfielder Emi Buendia as he began a three-match ban following his sending off against QPR on Saturday and struggled to make an impact for much of the game.

Championship top scorer Teemu Pukki, who was named Championship player of the season at Sunday's EFL awards, had an uncharacteristically quiet night in front of goal, as he was denied by a resilient Reading defence.

Godfrey and Zimmermann's late intervention should have seen Norwich clinch a ninth consecutive win to pull nine points clear of third-placed Sheffield United with five games still to play.

But Reading boosted their hopes of Championship survival as they pulled two points clear of the drop zone thanks to Rinomhota's dramatic equaliser.

Norwich City boss Daniel Farke told BBC Radio Norfolk:

"It was unbelievably disappointing. It was one of those days where you have to say football can be absolutely unfair.

"My feeling is that we were by far the better side. Of course [to concede] in the 96th minute was disappointing.

"We had 75% possession and more than 20 shots on target, Reading had two shots on target and both went in, but we have to accept it."

Jose Manuel Gomes told BBC Radio Berkshire:

"My players didn't deserve to lose this game. For the brave way they defended during more than 80 minutes. We changed the plan, put on one more defender.

"They created some dangerous situations when they put the ball in the box from crosses. My players did really well.

"One mistake and they scored and two or three minutes later they changed the game."