Norwich head coach David Wagner vowed to battle on after seeing his side’s poor form continue with a 3-1 home defeat at the hands of Blackburn.
The Canaries have now lost eight games out of 10 in all competitions, slipping to 17th in the Championship as a result after a bright start to the campaign.
“If I get the chance I will work to turn this around but I am not the right person to ask (about my future),” he said.
“I take responsibility, for sure, because I am the manager of this team, and today wasn’t good enough, I know that, and the longer this run goes on the more difficult it gets.
“But this squad proved what it’s capable of early in the season and as I said I am ready to work hard to put things right.”
Wagner, who confirmed he would not be resigning, added: “I thought we actually started quite well, winning the ball in dangerous positions, but after that our press wasn’t right and they punished us.
“At 3-0 we had a mountain to climb. I cannot fault the effort of the lads but we were not clinical enough, we didn’t take the good chances we created.”
Norwich were punished for a slow start as a slick Blackburn side scored twice in the first 15 minutes at Carrow Road.
A simple pass inside from Joe Rankin-Costello put Tyrhys Dolan in to run through and smash the ball high into the roof of the net and then Andrew Moran slid Sammie Szmodics in to make it two.
It was all too easy for Blackburn, with the home fans making their discontent clear, and four minutes after the restart it got even bleaker for the hosts as Szmodics got his second of the game.
Dolan did well to pick out an unmarked Moran on the right and his low cross was tapped in at the back post by Rovers’ top scorer, who got the benefit of a tight offside call.
The visitors were quickly reduced to 10 men when Scott Wharton saw red for a professional foul on Onel Hernandez, but Norwich had to wait until the second minute of injury time to pull one back from Gabriel Sara, who was in the right place to pounce on a loose ball in the area.
Blackburn boss Jon Dahl Tomasson was understandably pleased with his side’s comfortable win.
“I thought it was an excellent win and performance – we played at a very high level for long periods,” he said.
“Norwich are going through a difficult spell at the moment but they are still a good team with good players and it was important we got on the front foot immediately. We scored two good goals and had other good chances and it could easily have been 4-0 at half-time.
“We stuck to our principles, with plenty of one and two-touch football, and I thought we played some really good stuff at times.
“We scored another well-worked goal in the second half and then got the red card, which obviously affected the game.
“After that I thought we defended like lions to keep them out, showing great team spirit, which was another positive from our young team.
“We put in a good show at Chelsea and we have followed that up today with another good performance, which is very pleasing. We can now enjoy this and then prepare for the derby against Preston on Friday.”
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