Johannes Hoff Thorup had his say on the key issues around Norwich City's 2-2 Championship  fightback against Preston.

Borja Sainz and Shane Duffy cancelled out early home goals from Sam Greenwood and Duane Holmes at Deepdale.

"To be 2-0 down after 10, 15, minutes, when you know we are coming to a difficult place. We have to make sure that we are way better than that," he said. "On the other side, pleased with the mentality in the group, pleased with the dominance which we showed, especially in the first half, and it was important we got the goal just before half-time.

"But overall, just the energy and the team spirit within the group I think is fantastic. There was a great belief that we could turn things around and that we can actually get three points when we spoke in half-time.

"That's the most important. We know traveling away from home it's always difficult, and it's always very, very hard, and we made it even harder with these first 10 minutes.

"We have to look at it (the start) from all the angles without being carried away. Because, of course, you can concede goals in football. That's how it is. So it's not like we have to change our rhythm or preparation or stuff like that, we just have to make sure that it's clear for everyone what to do and how to start a game.

"I think it it's everything from our kick-off to our decisions within the first couple of minutes that are not good enough. So it's not only the goals. There's more into and we have to look at that start with critical eyes. And then, like we always do, make sure that we make it clear for the players how we should handle this first part of a game for the next time.

"I think actually the belief and the energy would have been the same in half-time, even though we were 2-0 down, because what we could see on the pitch was that the guys were communicating and supporting each other.

"I want to highlight the situation where we give the ball away in our build up and Ante (Crnac) sprints back 50 metres and makes a tackle on the edge of the box to recover the ball. That's exactly what we want to see and I also highlighted that to the boys in half-time.

"I don't think I had to say anything because there's such a good mentality in the group, and there is a good belief that we could turn things around, that we can get the three points. And of course, after Shane's goal, I actually thought we were about to take the three points."

Thorup spoke exclusively to the Pinkun at Deepdale on Tuesday night.