The Canaries head to Bolton on Saturday still in search of a first top-flight win despite some positive displays. It has been a step learning curve for Lambert's squad, many of whom have come up through two successive promotions from League One. Lambert, though, accepts if Norwich are to turn things around, they cannot afford to keep giving away "soft" penalties, his side having conceded a spot-kick in each of their four league games. "We are playing well enough, everyone can see that, we just have to convert our chances and cut out errors which are costing us. Having four penalties against us in four games is quite a high ratio," Lambert said at Friday morning's pre-match press conference. "The one against Stoke was outside the box, and against West Brom, it was really soft, but that is what has happened to us. We just have to hope the luck will turn. "It is a hard enough job to referee any game, they call it how they see it and you have to respect that decision, and hopefully we will get one or two decisions go our way. "You cannot change what has happened but four penalties against us in four games? I have never known it. It is too much." Norwich were somewhat unfortunate not to have been awarded a penalty of their own in last weekend's 1-0 home defeat by West Brom, when referee Mark Halsey missed James Vaughan bring caught by a stray elbow from Gabriel Tamas at a corner which left the striker needing hospital treatment for a badly-gashed lip. The Football Association have since handed the West Brom defender a retrospective three-match ban having reviewed the incident as part of their disciplinary process. However, Lambert said: "It still does not help us, we still do not get a penalty for it and we lose the game. "The officials never saw it and so there is nothing you can do." Lambert added: "I know the speed of the game but you have to get the big decisions right and, unfortunately for us, everybody missed it." Lambert revealed Vaughan suffered no lasting damage and quipped the summer signing from Everton "is better looking for it" as he prepares to take the squad to Bolton. Fellow Scot Owen Coyle guided Wanderers to the FA Cup semi-finals last season. However, after opening the season with an impressive 4-0 victory at Queen's Park Rangers, Bolton have since lost to Manchester City and Liverpool before being thumped 5-0 at home by a rampant Manchester United last weekend. Lambert, though, is not expecting anything other than a stern examination at the Reebok Stadium. "You are thinking there is going to be some sort of reaction," said Lambert, who has the utmost respect for Coyle's achievements, the Paisley-born coach having taken Burnley up to the Premier League in 2009 before returning to one of his former clubs in January 2010. "I am not going up there thinking Bolton are going to be lying down. "They will come out of the traps trying to reprieve what happened last week. That is something we have to withstand."
