Vitor Matos bemoaned the penalty decision which denied Swansea City victory at Norwich City as he paid tribute to the shift put in by his players at Carrow Road.

Swansea were short of their best as they played a second away game in four days against one of the Championship's form sides.

But having gone it level at half-time, Swansea edged in front through Zan Vipotnik's penalty.

They were on course for a battling away victory until Norwich, who had seen one appeal for a spot-kick turned down when Cameron Burgess challenged Mohamed Toure, were awarded a contentious penalty seven minutes from time.

This time Burgess headed Ali Ahmed's cross clear – but Lawrence Vigouroux was penalised for colliding with Mathias Kvistgaarden after he came off his line in an attempt to deal with the ball into his box.

"What can I say? I cannot control the decision. In my opinion, of course it's not a penalty, but it is what it is," said Swansea head coach Matos.

"It's body-to-body contact, a player going in one direction and a player going in the other. Then Cam clears the ball, so what can I say?

"It's not my job to decide that. So it's more about focus on the performance and that's what we will do."

Swansea's display lacked the energy they had shown in Tuesday's victory at Queens Park Rangers, but they still did enough to maintain their positive late-season form.

The Swans have lost only one of their past six games – to a last-minute goal from a high-flying Southampton side – while the Norwich draw means they have matched last season's tally of 61 points with one match to play, against Charlton Athletic next weekend.

"I think in this moment of the season, the effort we are putting in, the professionalism, the mentality, the desire – I think that's what we need to focus on," Matos added.

"I think that's been brilliant so far and that's why I am so proud of the boys."