Former Norwich City star Leon Barnett has stressed that the mentality of the Canaries players needs to change and added that someone in the squad needs to tell them that they are in a battle.
After back-to-back wins in the league, Norwich suffered a defeat at the hands of Watford at Vicarage Road on Tuesday.
Danny Batth and Hwang Ui-jo gave them a 2-0 lead within 13 minutes of the game, but David Wagner’s side failed to capitalise on the lead and suffered a 3-2 defeat against the Hornets.
Barnett believes that there are players in the Norwich squad who are looking at the defeats as just another game and believes the mentality of taking the games in hand needs to change.
The ex-Canaries star stressed that someone from the squad has to take charge and remind others that they are in a battle right now, so they need to implement what Wagner wants from them.
“There are some players; I don’t know who; some players probably think: “well, it’s a different game”; we can recover a bit,” Barnett told BBC Radio Norfolk.“But in reality this is not the case.“That mentality needs to change.
“Someone on the ground has to say, ‘listen, we’re having an argument here; we have to have a little luck every now and then; we have to keep the ball, be composed and be difficult to beat,” as Wagner said.
“I don’t know; I haven’t seen much of that today.”Norwich travel to Ashton Gate to face Liam Manning’s Bristol City on Sunday and Wagner, who is under pressure, will be determined to bounce back.
