Norwich City stopper George Long says moving on from mistakes is a part of life as a goalkeeper, having been criticised for his own in recent weeks.

The 31-year-old replaced Scotland international Angus Gunn when he sustained a rib injury last month, deputising for seven games between the sticks.

The Canaries have won none of their six fixtures since Long made his first Championship start of the season, failing to keep a clean sheet in any of them amid a selection crisis for head coach Johannes Hoff Thorup.

After a solid showing in Saturday's loss to Bristol City, however, their second choice knows recovering from his errors is the most important thing.


"I think it's probably one of the most important things as a keeper to be never too high and never too low, because things change so quickly," he told the club's On The Ball docuseries.

"During the Preston game I gave a penalty away early on, but you've just got to re-focus and get back on with the job, there's still 90 minutes to play.

"These things happen as a keeper, you see it in the Premier League every week, people making mistakes, the keepers making mistakes. But then they've still got their role to play in making saves as well and getting on with the job.

"So I think that just goes with the territory of being a keeper, you can't be too emotional about these things. It's just keeping a level head and not being too high or too low, just trying to stay somewhere in the middle.

"It can be easier said than done, but that's what you try and do."

Thorup applauded Long before that Robins defeat for his acceptance of responsibility for his mistakes, but refused to scapegoat the former Millwall man.

"George, fair play to him, he raised his arm and said ‘yes, it's my mistake,’ which is exactly the kind of environment that we try to build here,” he said. “One where we can be open and honest to each other, and we can say ‘yes, this is my mistake. Yes, I should have done better’.

"But there's many things also from a coaching perspective that can be done better in a situation like that. It's never important for me to go down to individuals and say it's only because of this or it's only because of that. It's a collective approach, and that's in everything we do here."