Norwich City manager Alex Neil has insisted that he will not step down from his position after his side lost 2-1 to promotion rivals Huddersfield Town at Carrow Road on Friday night.

The result represented the Canaries' seventh defeat in nine league games and saw them remain ninth in the Championship table, two points off the top six and 13 points behind league leaders Newcastle United, who have a game in hand.

Asked about his future after the game, Neil told reporters: "No, I won't consider going. Of course not. I will not be making a decision to leave this club. The only time you have failed is when you quit in my book. I have never quit at anything in my life and I am not going to start now.

"Where we are is not good enough. From me, from the players. The one thing that always happens is people tend to look for a scapegoat and being the manager it is usually going to be him. That is fine but everyone has to share responsibility. When you do well, get promoted and everything is going well you are not the only one who takes all the praise. As a group we certainly need to do better.

"I am disappointed due to the fact if you want to go and press a team like Huddersfield, who are so expansive and have a lot of energy, you need to do it with intensity. You have to have a willingness to run and in the middle areas of the pitch we really lacked that intensity. It wasn't a lack of effort, if I am being honest I thought it was a lack of legs. We didn't have the legs to get around the pitch well enough."

Norwich are next in action with a tough trip to fourth-placed Reading on Boxing Day.