Norwich City head coach Johannes Hoff Thorup insists the Championship has not caught him out.

The Canaries have picked up five points from their opening five league games, ahead of Watford’s weekend Carrow Road visit.

Thorup had FC Nordsjaelland in the hunt for the Danish title during his impressive 18 months in charge, but knew what he was letting himself in for in England’s second tier.

“It's a competitive league, and a league where, if you look at it from the positive side you can more or less win every game,” he said. “The more negative side is that you can also lose every game. I tend to watch it from the first side.

"I think most importantly for me is that we are improving. We wasted 90 minutes in Oxford in the opening weekend, but from there on we could see that we got better against Blackburn, better against Sheffield, better against Coventry.

"And I think also what we saw (at Swansea), in some moments, is that we are not just a team where, even though we go away, we sit back and we are satisfied with a draw. No, we go out there to win, and that's how we're going to play.

"But of course, also we have to look at areas where we can improve, because we have to make sure that we are better. We have to make sure that we're better this Saturday, and we have to make sure that when you ask me in November, we're even better than what we are now.”

Thorup dismissed suggestions the Danish Superliga is any less challenging.

“No, no. You know, with all due respect to the Championship, it's a great league, but in Denmark, you also have Champions League teams in that league,” he said. “So I think there's a competitiveness, and the intensity is maybe on the same level. There's a bigger difference between top and bottom in Denmark than there is here.

"You actually see it also, just going through the results, that every game is an even one. What I can say is that in Denmark, I will be a little bit more disappointed losing a game because there's only 32 of them. Here there's 46, so that's the positive side, that we have some games still in the rest of the season to win.”