Paul Trollope insists he is not yet feeling the heat despite Cardiff City’s early season meltdown.
The manager saw his team beaten 1-0 at home by Reading on Saturday to leave the Bluebirds with just one win in their opening six matches this season.
On top of that, no Cardiff player has yet scored a goal in front of their own fans, who booed the team as they left the field.
But Trollope said: “I don’t feel pressure but we are still searching for consistency through games.
“I understand the reaction. We’ve just lost at home and it’s normal to be hugely disappointed but for the majority of the game, the fans were right behind the group.”
Yann Kermorgant’s 89th-minute strike clinched Reading’s first win in the Championship since the opening weekend.
Lex Immers, Matthew Connolly and Sean Morrison put headers wide as Cardiff were made to pay for their wastefulness when Kermorgant thumped home substitute Jordan Obita’s cross.
Trollope added: “I’m really frustrated. We prepared really well and created enough chances, especially in the first period, to be in front.
“We controlled the game and coped well with their game to limit them to a few chances. But you need to score goals in football and we should have been ahead.
“We had three very, very good chances from headers and didn’t take them and then conceded that late goal that felt like a real sucker-punch.
“We thought we had this one in the palm of our hands at half-time and that we would go on to win. But not taking those chances came back to haunt us so we need to improve that.”
Reading manager Jaap Stam said: “We were up against a physically strong side who don’t give away much space to pass.
“They pressed us high up and were winning back balls in midfield and had chances in front of goal.
“But we have worked a lot on not conceding stupid goals from set-pieces, as we did at Newcastle and Wolves, and got that out of our system.
“We kept our patience and picked it up in the second half. We controlled the game and created chances late on.”
