Preston North End's Will Keane scored with 15 seconds of added time left in his first appearance of the season to deny Norwich City a second consecutive victory and a move out of the bottom three.

The Canaries seemed to be on course to follow up last week's victory over Southampton with a big win at the home of the play-off contenders, after Jovon Makama took their only chance of a dull encounter.

Keane, who went on as a late substitute after injury had kept him out for the whole of the campaign to date, headed in to stretch the unbeaten run of Paul Heckingbottom's side to six games.

Both sides suffered from the absence of their leading goalscorers, with Daniel Jebbison, who has five in his last seven matches, not in the Preston squad and Canaries front man Josh Sargent out due to concussion protocols.

That led to a game which had little goalmouth action with Thierry Small seeing a shot comfortably saved by Norwich goalkeeper Vladan Kovacevic and Lewis Dobbin curving another effort wide from 25 yards as the home side looked most likely to conjure something.

Michael Smith, stepping in for Jebbison, spurned a good chance, heading tamely into the hands of Kovacevic but the visitors finally created an opportunity with five minutes left.

Canaries substitute Emiliano Marcondes fed Makama, a summer signing from Lincoln City, in the box and he held off Jordan Storey on the turn and found the bottom corner with a fine strike.

Preston, who had Paul Heckingbottom serving the second of his three-match touchline ban, piled bodies forward and levelled in a frantic finish.

Andrija Vukcevic chipped a cross to the far post and when Brad Potts headed it back across goal Keane nodded the ball firmly past Kovacevic and into the corner.

Preston assistant manager Stuart McCall told BBC Radio Lancashire:

"Naturally, [the late goal] was emotionally very good, especially for the lads involved in the goal. Both Will [Keane] and Pottsy [Brad Potts] have been out for a long, long time so I'm delighted for both of those lads.

"It was the three subs that combined - Andy [Vukcevic] crossed it, Pottsy won a great header and Keano, being in the box, and with no pace on the cross, got in a really good header.

"It's not a game we deserved to lose. It was a tight game on a really difficult surface with not a lot of chances at both ends.

"We've seen since Phil [Clement]'s been in at Norwich they have improved dramatically, so we take the point. One good thing about the lads is that they never know when they're beaten."

Norwich manager Philippe Clement told BBC Radio Norfolk:

"Coming here against Preston, third in the league and a hard place to come, and showing this on the pitch, for 90 minutes with good organisation and good moments on the ball, and a really good goal makes it hard to lose two important points in the dying seconds.

"But [in terms of] mentality, I can't say anything against my team, it was a really good performance.

"Vlad [Kovacevic] didn't have to make many saves and was really good in a few moments with high crosses and coming to help the defence.

"In the last action, I think we can do better with a few players and can keep the ball better in front, like we did against Southampton, but it's really unlucky that we lost these two points."