Norwich head coach Liam Manning said it would “absolute madness” to start panicking so early in the season despite a third straight home defeat.

Tuesday’s 3-0 home loss to Southampton in the EFL Cup second round followed earlier Championship defeats at Carrow Road to Millwall on the opening day of the season and Middlesbrough last Saturday, which have left the Canaries 17th in the league after one win – at Portsmouth – in their opening three games.

“I don’t like losing, I don’t like conceding goals like we have done,” Manning told BBC Radio Norfolk after the latest reverse.

“I think the last 20 minutes of the game skews a little bit of the performance. When you look at the first half I think we performed really well, and caused them real problems, created numerous chances but we didn’t take any.

“Then obviously a sloppy turnover again, similar to the weekend, a fantastic finish and then you are 1-0 down.

“Even in the second half there were some passages again. For me it was probably the way we finished the game, in terms of continuing to fight and show those behaviours all the way through until the end, that was probably the disappointing feeling at the end.”

The Canaries boss said his team need to be more ruthless in attack after only managing four of their 10 shots on target.

“Learning to win is different, the smart bit is the little fouls on transition or being ruthless in the box. It is no good creating loads of chances and not converting, which was similar to at the weekend.

“I know we have a huge amount of work to do and I know because of that we will improve and we will get better.

“I am quite clear and quite strong on that, you don’t want to be panicking four or five games in – I think it would be absolute madness to do that.”

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