Bullish David Wagner will come out fighting to get Norwich City back on track in the Championship.
The Canaries’ chief will take charge for Blackburn’s Carrow Road visit this weekend, but admitted after the latest away defeat at Sunderland his future is now in the hands of others.
City have lost seven of the last 10 in the league to slide down the table, and under-pressure Wagner knows he must hold his nerve.
“I will not change my behaviour,” he said. “Whether we won six games in a row or we lost six games in a row that would make no sense because as a manager and a person you can get dizzy. This is why I try to be as calm as I can, even if I don't like these periods. But the truth is, as well, I know the only one who can turn it is us.
"As much as supporters would like to change this for us, they will not change it, only us. You have to be honest and speak about what needs to change, and then brave to go forward. This is exactly how my behaviour is. To lead from the front, to show the direction, prepare everybody as good as you can.
“It's important that I go to bed every evening and know, ‘Okay, I've done everything I can do at my best, with my backroom staff, to prepare the players’.
"Then there is the moment where the guys cross the white line and they must execute what we are working on. And this is how I always have done it, and how I always will do it as well.”
Wagner is demanding his squad go for the jugular against Rovers, after blowing another lead against Sunderland.
“The good thing in the Championship is in every game you have a chance,” he said. “We lost to Leeds when we could have won, or drawn, and we drew against Coventry from a position when we could have won, even if the performance was not outstanding. Even in these recent games there have been chances for us to collect points.”
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