Under-pressure manager David Wagner felt Norwich’s 3-2 comeback win at Cardiff proved he has the full support of his dressing room.
The Canaries went into the contest in the Welsh capital having collected just one point from their previous six Championship outings.
But Ryan Wintle’s own goal and Adam Idah’s strike, Christian Fassnacht having netted in the first half, earned Norwich a dramatic victory after Josh Bowler and Callum Robinson had put the hosts in front.
“I think it’s a deserved win,” said Wagner. “We have some problems but how the players took it on board and reacted was just great to see.
“It was anything but a surprise for me. I love these players. I know we don’t have a problem in the dressing room, there’s a good togetherness.
“It shows how tight the dressing room is. They were desperate to turn it around and have this winning feeling back.
“We were on a negative run for quite a while, this is never enjoyable.
“But if you still feel the dressing room and everyone else at the club is behind you, you can stand in front of everyone and show the confidence everyone needs from a leader.
“Now hopefully with some players back after the international break, hopefully this is our turning point to continue to at least perform like we did today.”
Following what had been a fairly tame start to proceedings, Norwich stunned the home crowd as Fassnacht tapped home from Kenny McLean’s flick-on to put his side in front with his third goal of the campaign.
But Bowler and Robinson netted before half-time to ensure the Bluebirds led at the break.
Wintle deflected in Fassnacht’s cross eight minutes from time and substitute Idah coolly slotted home from close range just two minutes later as the Canaries won for only the second time in 11 matches in all competitions while bringing an end to Cardiff’s three-game unbeaten run in the process.
Bluebirds boss Erol Bulut was left furious with his side’s set-piece defending.
“You can lose the game but not how we lost it in the last 25 minutes. This makes me angry,” he said.
“We didn’t fight, we didn’t concentrate, we lost balls too quickly and we knew exactly what they would do. Some players were not concentrating enough.
“We trained for it (set-pieces). We showed the team how Norwich are doing their corner kicks, at the front post, and they scored the first goal from the front post.
“And at the far post we conceded. The second goal was the same. Two easy goals.”
He added: “Also, our substitution players didn’t really help us. In previous weeks that was different, they brought us points.
“That was also the key to how we lost the game 3-2.”
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