Johannes Hoff Thorup wants Norwich City to pick up the pace ahead of Watford’s Championship visit.

The Dane is now on the look out for a new first team coach and goalkeeper coach, following the departures of Narcis Pelach and Paul Clements respectively to Stoke.

City are unlikely to make any external appointments prior to the Hornets’ weekend duel, which is Thorup’s prime focus after failing to build on a first league win against Coventry last time out at Swansea.

Norwich have picked up five points from his first five Championship games in charge.

“I would have expected to have more points. I think if we look at the outcome in maybe one and a half to two of those games, I think we should have had more, based on the chances created, based on how the games went,” he said.

“So that's one thing. Then I think, offensively, we can still improve. We have to be able to create more and bigger chances, based on the situations that we actually get ourselves into.

“That was always a question after the Coventry game, when we had many good situations but did not get on the end of the crosses. We had many of these situations again at Swansea, both in transition and more settled play, and it is an area we need to improve.

"There are still some steps for us to take, because we have to be more effective in the final third of the pitch. That is why I was disappointed because I think we can show more. We’re still a little bit in between and I told the boys in the changing room (at Swansea) we have higher expectations.”

Thorup dismissed any suggestion the international pause checked his squad’s momentum in Wales, after previously beating the Sky Blues.

“It's not important. We can talk about so many things that we cannot affect, down to referees and fans and everything that we cannot affect. That's how it is,” he said. “What we can affect is that we have these international breaks, and we have 10 to 12 days to train with the players that are in the building. So it's fine, and it's the same for every team in the league.

“What we did in that period was to just have an overall look on how we do things and how we have performed so far, and where to put our main focus in the future.

“We conceded a silly goal at Swansea but I think, defensively, we're getting better, we're improving, we're being more solid, also on the low defending part.”