David Wagner will take the stick for Norwich City’s nosedive but insisted a spirited Cardiff City Championship comeback proves he has the backing from his players.

The Canaries staged a dramatic fightback in Wales, with Adam Idah sealing a 3-2 victory, to pick up a first away league win since August 26 and halt a run of four straight defeats.

Wagner went into the game under mounting pressure, after revealing he had received support from the club’s soon-to-be joint minority shareholders, and new sporting director Ben Knapper.

“At the end of the day I'm long enough in this business. I decided to be in this business. We all together love it if we win, and we don't like it if we lose,” he said. “We were now on a negative run for quite a while and this is never enjoyable.

"But if you still feel the dressing room is behind you, and everyone else in the club is behind you, you can stay in front of everyone and show the confidence which everybody needs to see from a leader. And this is what I tried to do.

“The owners said they like I am the manager of this football club. They believe and trust in me and you don’t become a poor manager overnight.

"The feeling in the dressing room, this is why we do this job, this feeling after a win. Obviously we were so desperate to have this feeling back again. This only shows how tight the dressing room is together. They were desperate to turn it, and desperate to have this winning feeling back.”

Wagner dedicated a long overdue win to the travelling support, who were able to savour the winning moment with clearly emotional players.

“The players care. They are self critical. They care about the supporters,” he said. Our supporters made a lot of effort to come here over the weekend, and to give them the win to travel back with a smile on their face is great, because they have not had it for a long time.

"They still come and travel and support us and you could see that in the way the players celebrated with them.”