Dean Smith admitted relegated Norwich City’s wretched Premier League season can not end soon enough after a 3-0 defeat on Wednesday night at Leicester City.

The Canaries mustered resistance until Jamie Vardy opened the scoring with a deflected strike in the 54th minute, before he added a swift second and James Maddison pounced to inflict a fifth straight top flight defeat on his old club.

Norwich travel to Wolves this weekend, before their Premier League swansong at home to Spurs.

“I have applied to the Premier League and asked if we can play Wolves on Thursday and Tottenham on Friday,” said Smith. “No seriously, it is tough going at the moment but we are planning now and I saw parts of our game we can take forward, in terms of how we competed against a good side who got to a European semi-final.

“We have recruited a team that is possession based but at this level we will come up against teams who are better than us with the ball.

"When we have something to cling onto in a game, we are alright. But when we concede, it becomes tough. We suffer then.

“Our arousals were up there, the players showed they were up for it but even from the kick off (after Vardy’s opener) we nearly concede a second.

"We then lose our decision making from the first 50 minutes, and it becomes damage limitation.”

Angus Gunn made his first start since February, in place of Tim Krul, and pulled off a string of first half saves.

Norwich had chances of their own at the opposite end, with youngster Tony Springett foiled by Kasper Schmeichel and Teemu Pukki hitting a post.

“A better performance but a similar result unfortunately,” said Smith. “They started better than we did and Angus had to make a few good saves. Our confidence started to grow, we created some good chances.

"None more so than when Milot (Rashica) passes it just behind Tony and it allowed Schmeichel to make a good save. Then we had Teemu with his big chance.

“They upped the tempo at the start of the second half and we found it difficult to live with that and were camped in our own half. The first goal changes our mindset. From then like I said on we had to suffer.

"We had almost weathered that period. We didn’t need to concede that goal. Milot has it at the other end and crosses a needless ball into the box from where they counter.

"Vardy’s movement is exceptional, even though it takes a deflection and loops over Angus.”