Norwich City boss David Wagner is expected to be in charge for Blackburn's visit - but admitted his Carrow Road future is out of his hands after failing to halt a Championship nosedive.

A 3-1 loss at Sunderland made it seven league defeats from the last 10 - to leave the Canaries 17th in the table - and Wagner knows his job is on the line.

The head coach will be in charge for Rovers this weekend, although reports on Sunday sporting director Stuart Webber could leave before the arrival of incoming new football chief Ben Knapper are wide of the mark.

The man who appointed the German will remain at the club for Knapper’s scheduled start date on November 27 in a handover period.

A downbeat Wagner, speaking after fresh Wearside woe, wants time to turn this around.

“I understand the question, but this is not a question I can answer,” he said. “These are situations you face as a manager, which you don't like, but these are challenges which are part of the manager's life.

"Obviously. It's up to me to get this sorted, but how much time or if I get the time? As I said this is not the question for me.

“I know how this game is. I am part of it long enough. It hurts. I love my team, this football club and the community I live in. But we have not delivered the results.

“At the end of the day I'm a human like you. I like the praise and I don't like the criticism but I respect the criticism. I personally know exactly when it's right and when it isn't right. And at the minute, it's right, because we didn't collect points, and we didn't perform where we can do.”

Wagner made four changes to his starting line up, but the outcome was depressingly familiar.

“We don't have to deny it. The recent form is not good enough. And I take responsibility for it, and I have to try to find the solutions to change it,” he said. “But the truth is as well that obviously the form is not where we want it to be, and far away from what we've shown in the first two, two and a half months.

"This is obviously a big problem for us. It looks like the players get affected, mentally, by the situation we are in.

"I think we got beaten by ourselves, by the individual mistakes which we've done in both boxes to be fair. The goals which we gave away and the opportunities we haven't used because we were not clinical and made wrong decisions - too many touches or not enough touches.

"Performance-wise, it was okay for an away performance to be fair. We set up in the mid block and wanted to cause them problems on the transition and this worked quite well. We scored from the transition and had a couple of further opportunities after the transition. But the goals which we gave away, were just too easy; individual mistakes, which again, cost us. This is why it's it's strange afternoon."