Johannes Hoff Thorup is out to stop a Championship slide at all costs against Bristol City.

The Canaries look for a first win in six this weekend at Carrow Road after a brutal spell on and off the pitch.

Angus Gunn, Kenny McLean, Marcelino Nunez and Josh Sargent will all be missing for the Robins.

“It's a competitive league and you can see if you can get two wins or three wins in a row, then you can really change the picture. But it can also go the opposite direction quite fast,” he said. “We’ve had a lot of away games as well, which is difficult in this league, with limited options and situations like that.

"We will deal with it and we have to find good answers for the last game before the national break. It’s good for where we are the moment there's a break after this game.”

Norwich blew a win at Cardiff in stoppage time last weekend and there appeared to be a hangover in the woeful defending for Sheffield Wednesday’s match-defining first half salvo.

“I think the psychology is, of course, always important,” said the Dane. “Because what we see at the moment is that it's players that were not maybe leaders to begin with this season who have to take a lot of responsibility, which is not always easy, when you still struggle with the level, with the intensity, with your position, with your own work, and then you have to reach out to some of the others as well. 

“That's a lot to demand from me, and I don't think it's the time to do that. If we compared the team that played against Hull or Watford and let's say the performance was like it was (at Sheffield), then I would be more demanding and also more clear in what I want exactly from the players.

"But right here at the moment we need to be a little bit careful."

Thorup accepts the underlying numbers are regressive, with City leaking 10 goals in the last five league outings, and only mustering three shots on target for 70pc possession at Hillsborough.

"We were not even close to being dangerous enough, and definitely not creating the moments that we wanted to," he said. "I think maybe second half we got a little bit too emotional. We tried too many individual things, dribbling in tight areas, instead of moving the ball quick enough. And I think what we tried to open up it was more crosses and cheap passes back, which didn't work out for us.

"It was a slow game with a lot of free kicks, with a lot of stops, with a lot of situations that we could not control, and that was exactly what we didn't want.

"(Conceding goals) There's way too many and there's no chance that we can get points or any good results if that's going to be the case going forward. So obviously we have to look at that."