Simon Lappin's thoughts on Norwich City 0-0 Leeds United

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The Canaries and Leeds drew a blank in the first leg of their Championship play-off semi-final at Carrow Road on Sunday.

The game finished 0-0, the two sides will meet in the second leg of the tie on Thursday at Elland Road (20:00 BST).

Simon Lappin was BBC Norfolk's guest summariser for Sunday's game, here are some of his full-time thoughts:

"They (Norwich) would have hoped to have won this game to go to Elland Road with that lead.

"But it's an old adage in football - 'if you can't win the game, don't lose it' and I think David Wagner will be delighted."

He continued: "I came along today with the same sentiment as a lot of fans - we wanted to see them get after Leeds from the word 'go', and they did that.

"It's hard to keep that up against a side who finished with 90 points, 17 points ahead of them and it was a big ask to go 90 minutes at that tempo.

"It's 0-0, Wagner goes there with all to play for and there is still an opportunity to go to Wembley"

You can listen to more from Simon Lappin on Canary Call with Adrian Coote and Rob Butler here.

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